5 month ago
Linkorama : Newsweek advances Andrew Keen’s ignorance - And the saddest thing of all about articles like these is that they are added to record. People hoping for relief from the disruption of personal technology will point to them as evidence, when in reality, they’re pure folly, bathed in assumptions that
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Pay Me for My Content - New York Times - We could design information systems so that people can pay for content — so that anyone has the chance of becoming a widely read author and yet can also be paid. Information could be universally accessible but on an affordable instead of an absolutely f
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9 month ago
Linkorama : The User-Generated Content Myth - This shouldn't be surprising to people, because if you've run communities for any length of time, you'll run into the 1% rule: in any community of size, the vast majority of your content is created by about 1% of the membership.
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13 month ago
Linkorama : "If they come, they will build it." - IT teams have a critical opportunity to make it worth people's while. As one IT exec at the conference put it, "If they come, they will build it."
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Harnessing Collective Intelligence - With the help of our algorithms the community can outperform the market -- something most analysts can't do. That's not user-generated content, that's a cognitive community exhibiting super intelligent behavior.
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26 month ago
Linkorama : 50 MM Americans Create Web Content - Of those adults who have posted content on the Web, 73 percent, or 31 million, have a broadband connection at home.
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Social Metaphor Mixer - Hey, whatever gets the party started, right?
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27 month ago
Linkorama : User-generated Mobile Web - half of the streaming content that will appear on Internet-ready mobile phones would be created by the phone users themselves. Likewise, the other half of the content would be transactional -- meaning services offered by the telecommunications firms and
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Advertisers in Charge - PC Forum this year is about smallness ( I'm even tempted to use the word pettiness) which is unfortunate.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : "Consumers in Charge" - Mary sums up my sense of the first day at PC Forum as too individualistic and exploitive
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31 month ago
Linkorama : The We Media Deal - The value of the service to you increases in lock-step as you contribute more data to it. The more transparent the value exchange, the more willing you are to share your data.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Newsvine - Given that I have been rallying against the whole concept of gross exploitation of “user generated content†you might be wondering why is it any different? Well, because you get a piece of the advertising that is sold against content you gener
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Digg, and you shall find VC money - Digg, the San Francisco start-up that ranks news items by letting people choose which stories they like anywhere on the Web, has just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors, including Omidyar Networ
ricmac : SiliconBeat: Digg, and you shall find VC money - Digg "has just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors"
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37 month ago
Linkorama : O'Reilly on Our Web Content - I'd say that We Want Information to be Valuable
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Web Content by and for the Masses - "The giant brain is us," said Peter Hirshberg
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