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Links: 6-8-2009

• Twitter / Tim O’Reilly: OH: "God was able to creat …
  Quote: "God was able to create the world in 6 days because he didn’t have an installed base". So true.
  (categories: development productmanagement )

• tiara.org » Blog Archive » Tumblarity and Quantified Stand-ins for Social Status
  Tumblarity is a quantified metric: a number that stands in for more complex social phenomena, like popularity or status. Tumblr helpfully includes leaderboards to make it extra-easy to compare Tumblarity with your friends, rivals, and frenemies, causing tech dorks pundits to complain about the “popularity contest” aspect of the feature.
  (categories: metrics points socialsoftware status reputation socialmedia )

• tiara.org » Blog Archive » Foursquare, Locative Media, and Prescriptive Social Software - Part One
  Foursquare gives you points depending on when, where, and with who you check in, and keeps a weekly leaderboard of high scorers in each city. In this instance, I get 5 points for checking in at a new venue (don’t ask where the 22 points comes from; I didn’t check in anywhere last night after midnight [Edit: apparently this is a bug that's since been fixed]), and I’m told that Jay A. is the Mayor of The Grind, which means he’s checked in there more times than anyone else in the last 60 days.
  (categories: social socialsoftware status reputation scoreboard games )

• tiara.org » Blog Archive » Status and Attention
  Thesis: People contribute more to content sites like YouTube when they receive positive attention, and a lack of attention causes people to uploading less content and, in some cases, to stop contributing altogether.
  (categories: attention reputation status social media psychology )

• Twitter / Tim O’Reilly: New from O’Reilly: Using G …
  Quote: "… bit by bit, the Internet OS is becoming a reality."
  (categories: cloud internet-os google-app-engine )