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Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 25, 2008
Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg, but SitePoint's anecdote demonstrates that sometimes the wisdom of crowds approach is, well, kind of dumb. Now is probably a good time to revisit...
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Please Give Us Your Email Password
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
Shared by TiTi "why can't I grant them temporary access to my public email address book without giving out the keys to my email kingdom?"A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in.I've enjoyed using...
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Search Muxtapes With Muxfind
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 25, 2008
Muxtape, an online mix tape-making service, has been a big hit with music fans on the social web. The site lets you upload mp3s to create a playlist you can share with anyone. Now, a new service called Muxfind lets you to search through the muxtapes created by others in order to discover new artists, songs, and muxtapes that you might enjoy.Using MuxfindUsing Muxfind is as simple as using any...
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Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on April 24, 2008
If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be supported until 2011, offers a freer, more productive space for work and play than ever before. It's not easy jumping blind into a new way of thinking or working, and Ubuntu, the so-called...
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Jerry Yang: “We’re Done”
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 27, 2008
Walt Mossberg just finished interviewing Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker (my real time notes are here, see Peter Kafka’s notes as well).The two key topics of the interview were the failed Microsoft merger, and Yahoo’s core focus as a company. And while Yang never actually said the words quoted in the title above, his tone and body language screamed “We’re Done.” He was...
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New York Times Foreclosures Graphic
via Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media by Matthew Hurst on May 27, 2008
An elegant data illustration. I like this in part because the data is presented in a manner that reflects the metaphor of the text (shadow).[Note: I manipulated this image using picnik which I'm amazed by.]
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Twitter's real scaling problem revealed [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on June 03, 2008
Twitter developer Alex Payne recently posted a long discourse attempting to explain why Twitter keeps going down, and why throwing more machines at the problem won't solve it. But we find his 140-character explanation, Twittered today, much more satisfying.
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A Definition of Noise
via I'm Not Actually a Geek by Hutch Carpenter on June 04, 2008
FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor has a nice interview with CNET’s Dan Farber today. In the interview, Bret mentions that FriendFeed will be introducing ranking algorithms soon. These will create your own personalized FeedMeme. Which is going to be interesting. Dan Farber then asks whether user controls over content will be rolled soon. Bret answers ‘no’.In the discussion around this link...
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FriendBinder Throws Hat In LifeStreaming Ring
via louisgray.com by louisgray on June 03, 2008
Back in March, I bumped into rumors of FriendBinder, which, like other lifestreaming offerings including MyBlogLog, Plaxo Pulse, Profilactic and FriendFeed, claimed to offer a single destination to keep track of what your friends are doing on many different social networks. At the time, the author, Richard Cunningham, let me know the service was more than a year into development and would be...
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Should services charge “super users”?
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on May 25, 2008
Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model.Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter’s problems are due to super users like me.Interesting that both of these guys are wrong.First of all, Twitter doesn’t store my Tweets 25,000 times. It stores them once and then it remixes them. This is like saying...
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