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Raw vs. Polished

May 2, 2008

Eric Berlin writes about the differences between Friendfeed and TechMeme.
Therefore, perhaps we can say that Techmeme aggregates what’s important about tech and Internet news and easily provides links to surrounding conversations. It’s really a new kind of online newspaper, and a pretty terrific one. And Friendfeed is an aggregator of lots of stuff, of what [...]

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Cognitive Surplus will free up time to

May 1, 2008

One of the best talks at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo was Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. In it he suggests that modern television is a, “cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.”

He concludes after describing how a child spent a few minutes looking for the mouse connected to [...]

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The Lifestream Filter Will be the Next Great Algorithm War

April 21, 2008

I’m paraphrasing the title of this post from David Recordon who threw this line out following a chat I had with him a couple of weeks back. It’s a very insightful observation that predicts opportunities in the real-time world which lifestream services operate.
It’s now easier than ever to pull together an aggregated feed of content [...]

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Facebook takes away your thumbs

April 16, 2008

Inside Facebook noticed that the thumbs up icon no longer on the Facebook mini-feed.  All in the name of simplification says Facebook but to me it seems like they’ve removed a sense of control over the feed I once thought I had.

Curiously, the FAQ is still there.
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Nate Ritter’s one man band media service

January 14, 2008

I went to a meetup sponsored by Netsquared and saw Nate Ritter talk about how he was able to fill in during the power outages during the San Diego fires and keep us all informed on what was going on. Part of his amazing story is how on the first day he worked for [...]

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Vitality – what’s next?

November 23, 2007

Back when Facebook announced it’s News Feed (then called the “mini-feed”) which aggregated all your friends activity onto a single, easy to scan page, there was a firestorm of controversy. What upset people the most was that this feed, which consisted of updates that, up until that time, had been scattered across each of your [...]

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last.fm artist page wiki

November 17, 2007

Tonight I discovered that last.fm has a wiki to store biographies for each of the artists (here’s the entry for Radiohead). They offer a subscription to an RSS feed of recent changes but with a last.fm twist – it limit the feed to updates of changes and edits to only artists it thinks you’ll care [...]

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Facebook and RSS out

August 15, 2007

(photo by: mariachisamurai)
Dave Winer pointed out that RSS feeds are now available for your Friends Status, Friends Posted and Notifications pages in Facebook. The friends updates have been around for a while but the notifications feed might be new. An astute comment on the Techcrunch post about this news says:
The news feed really was a [...]

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BluBet, predictive markets for the rest of us

April 4, 2007

One of the problems with predictive market sites is the complexity of the economic model makes it difficult for the casual participant to get involved. Because the underlying dynamics of the market or methods of measurement are hard to grok, the markets never really scale to a number that filters out noise effectively enough to [...]

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Leftover notes from Jimmy Wales talk

March 8, 2007

Back in January I saw Jimmy Wales speak at a Social Media Club gathering in San Francisco. I scrawled down a few notes but never got around to transcribing them. Better late than never!
Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia principles
1. Assume good faith
2. Intentional vulnerability
3. Accountability rather than gatekeeping
Q: Why don’t more people contribute?
A: They either (a) [...]

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