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  • Comparing Approaches to Information Filtering for Relevance In a previous post, we looked at the big shift From Numbers To Relevance. There are dozens of apps/sites that are focusing on filtering information today, but which of them will succeed? To attempt to answer that question, let’s first look at the different approaches employed by such apps/sites today in the search for Relevance. This [...]
    ~1 month on
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  • NYT Profiles Techmeme From The New York Times: One of the first Web sites loaded on Silicon Valley’s laptops and iPhones each morning — and then again and again throughout the day — is Techmeme. Couple of factoids: 260,000 readers who check it 3 million times a month Techmeme plans to include cogent 140-character Twitter posts written by influential people as [...]
    ~1 month on
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  • Googler’s Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook’s Armor Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, shared a presentation a few days back that was picked up by Venture Beat among others. I am sharing it here along with my own thoughts as I think it deserves a closer look. Why? Because: Paul currently works on Buzz and YouTube Google is rumored to be [...]
    2 months on
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  • Skeptic Dope: “Influencer” [Starting a new series of posts – Skeptic Dope. These are meant to be fun posts that cut through the hype and simply tell you what some things really mean. I hope to make them a mix of The Straight Dope and The Devil’s Dictionary.] Influencer - [noun] Traffic Driver - [Archaic] Person (or entity) who influences Modern Usage In [...]
    2 months on
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  • Is Windows Live Delivering What Google Buzz Promised? While everyone has been dissecting the Google Me rumor, I’ve been taking a look at Microsoft’s Windows Live Wave 4. Here are a few key features with my thoughts on how they contrast with Google Buzz. User Base ~300 million Google tried to leverage its Gmail user base when it launched Buzz. What ensued was a [...]
    2 months on
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  • PayPal Completes Online Payments Domination: Accepts Credit Cards In a blog post largely unnoticed, PayPal announced that ‘Guest Payments’ are now live: Guest Payments allows developers to collect credit card payments without requiring their customers to open a PayPal account, eliminating the complications merchants, developers and startups face in accepting credit cards. Guest Payments are now part of its Adaptive Payments API and have been [...]
    2 months on
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  • 10 Questions for Google’s “Head of Social” GigaOm reports that Google is looking to recruit a “Head of Social”. I welcome the move and present a few questions Google should be asking of its new hire: In 2008 and 2009, we let people believe that iGoogle was our social platform. In 2010, we placed all our bets on Buzz. Is there any way [...]
    3 months on
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  • 10 Questions for Google’s “Head of Social” GigaOm reports that Google is looking to recruit a “Head of Social”. I welcome the move and present a few questions Google should be asking of its new hire: In 2008 and 2009, we let people believe that iGoogle was our social platform. In 2010, we placed all our bets on Buzz. Is there any way [...]
    3 months on
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  • Matrix: Google Buzz, Twitter Chirp, Facebook F8 This is how the events launching new social network features compared: Pretty self-explanatory.
    4 months on
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  • Matrix: Google Buzz, Twitter Chirp, Facebook F8 This is how the events launching new social network features compared: Pretty self-explanatory.
    4 months on
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  • Twitter Annotations: Fountain of Creativity or Can of Worms? On the first day of the Chirp developer conference, Twitter announced “Annotations”: The feature will allow developers to “add any arbitrary metadata to any tweet in the system.” So, just like a tweet can today be transmitted along with information about which other tweet it was in reply to, or what location it came from, [...]
    4 months on
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