- Please Enjoy – The Work of Ji Lee
50 random people in NY don’t know the difference between a browser and Google.
(categories: browser google video funny sad ) - Information Is Overrated – Forbes.com
Quote on twitter: "When I’m jonesing for a quick hit of information or entertainment, I know it’s there for me, demanding no commitment, attention span or involvement in plot. But, alas, it’s not gonna change our world. "
(categories: twitter informationoverload )
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Links: 6-15-2009
- Hunch: Cred, Banjos and Badges
Some original / unique thinking about status levels and reputation. The personality badges are really interesting.
(categories: status reputation socialsoftware )
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 )
Links: 6-7-2009
- Burton Brewery Brewery corner Parker & Heath St. Boston, Mass. on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Cool art.
(categories: boston beer brewery art flickr poster advertisement ) - Figures of Speech – Teach a Kid to Argue
Logos is argument by logic. Ethos, or argument by character, employs the persuader’s personality, reputation, and ability to look trustworthy. Then there’s pathos, argument by emotion.
(categories: parenting psychology debate kids thinking ) - Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
(categories: health politics government insurance economics medicine )
Links: 6-6-2009
- IEEE Spectrum: The Million Dollar Programming Prize
Short discussion of some of the collaborative filtering techniques used by the Netflix competitors including nearest neighbor and latent factor models.
(categories: machinelearning clustering collaborative_filtering search netflix ieee ) - The Atlantic Online | June 2009 | What Makes Us Happy? | Joshua Wolf Shenk
His central question is not how much or how little trouble these men met, but rather precisely how—and to what effect—they responded to that trouble. His main interpretive lens has been the psychoanalytic metaphor of “adaptations,” or unconscious responses to pain, conflict, or uncertainty. Formalized by Anna Freud on the basis of her father’s work, adaptations (also called “defense mechanisms”) are unconscious thoughts and behaviors that you could say either shape or distort—depending on whether you approve or disapprove—a person’s reality.
(categories: psychology happiness health research harvard adaptations choices )
Links: 6-5-2009
- Apache Mahout – Taste Documentation
Taste is a flexible, fast collaborative filtering engine for Java. The engine takes users’ preferences for items ("tastes") and returns estimated preferences for other items. For example, a site that sells books or CDs could easily use Taste to figure out, from past purchase data, which CDs a customer might be interested in listening to.
(categories: mahout java algorithm mapreduce machinelearning apache recommendation collaborative_filtering collectiveintelligence )
Links: 6-3-2009
- Why Email Clients Need to Change
Quote: ".. But if inboxes don’t fundamentally change in order to adapt to their new role as the keeper of myriad transactions across the entire web, they’ll be obsolete."
(categories: email data ideas inbox filtering communication )
Links: 5-30-2009
- Dept. of Science: Don’t!: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings.
(categories: metacognition thinking patience kids education learning psychology self-control ) - Official Google Reader Blog: "Life is a great bundle of little things"
Bundle a bunch of feeds together into a single feed, kind of like planet software w/o the hassle.
(categories: googlereader feed sharing bundle lists google planet )
Links: 5-28-2009
- About Google Wave
Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web
(categories: wave google collaboration communication ) - Google Wave Preview
Links: 5-25-2009
- Google Analytics Blog: Web Analytics Tips & Tricks: Share Your Google Analytics Data With Everyone
… Now you can use the Google Analytics Data Export API to create your own integrations to share Google Analytics data with everyone. For example, if you use WordPress blogging software, you can display Google Analytics traffic data directly on your website using the new Analyticator plugin by Sprial Web Consulting.
(categories: stats reporting google analytics integration api ) - Churchill Club Top Ten Tech Trends on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Ann Winblad: The unstructured data deluge creates the next great information leaders. Every click, message, tweet is rich data amassed at exponential rates. Gartner predicts enterprise data growth of 650 percent in five years; 80 percent of that data will be unstructured.
(categories: data bigdata datamining storage enterprise )