Social Media
BluBet, predictive markets for the rest of us
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 [...]
Leftover notes from Jimmy Wales talk
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) [...]
Yahoo! acquires MyBlogLog, puts a face to analytics
Holy crap this year started off with a bang! I’ve been lumbering in a post-holiday daze for the past couple of weeks but a quick succession of events snapped me out of it.
Yahoo! acquires MyBlogLog - I’ve been using the service for quite some time now and have been singing it’s praises internally. The [...]
Undocumented “spouse-finder” feature in Facebook
With all the hoohah over Facebook’s mini-feed feature, one new service was exposed that I didn’t see in the documentation anywhere. Rather than setting up a simple match-making service, the folks at Facebook have pushed the envelope with their online, add-a-spouse feature.
I was about to send off a hearty congratulations to my colleague when I [...]
How to Create a Thumbnail Blogroll, a 20-minute hack
Yahoo! had one of its internal hack days [1] today and while work kept me from devoting enough time to work on an effort on the scale of last time, an email at 9am this morning did give me the chance to show at least something at today’s show-n-tell.
I’ve been thinking of picture-in-picture badges for [...]
Digg 3.0 - stats and cool visualization
I missed the Digg 3.0 launch party earlier this week where they previewed a cool new visualization tool that will be launching later this month. I was alerted to it because of the Diggnation podcast and am thankful to the infosthetics.com site for pointing me to a video which shows this new visualization.
More details on [...]
eBay completes social media troika, message boards, blogs, now a wiki
EBay recently launched blogs for it’s members as a supplement to its very active forum community. While message boards are useful for loosely classified conversations where anyone can start a thread, blogs are better suited for individuals who want to project a voice around an area of expertise. We’re already seeing examples of this as [...]
Video Advertising - two approaches
Apple announced today that it will run graphical ads in the lower-left hand corner of the iTunes product as users listen to podcasts on their PC. Advertising Age goes on to write that this will help offset the costs of producing and hosting podcasts. Everyone will be looking at this closely.
In other news, I’ve been [...]
Video editing fun with Remixer
Check out the latest out of Yahoo Research Labs. Save & edit your favorite clips from the SF International Film Festival, re-arrange, lay down a soundtrack and share.
. . . developed in collaboration with Yahoo! Research Berkeley and the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University. Besides the online gallery, a selection [...]
“Human social networks constitute a habitable environment and a giant playground for memes.”
UC Berkeley grad student Sean Savage writes about social networks from the perpective of machines, corporations, and memes. Sean’s post pokes fun but is also a useful reminder of how insular and kinda creepy all this talk about "social media" must sound to the person on the street.
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