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Ryan said:
Aardvark has published a whitepaper outlining some of the technology and much of the logic behind their social search engine.
Quote: We demonstrate that there is a large class of subjective questions — especially longer, contextualized requests for recommendations or advice — which are better served by social search than by web search. And our key finding is that whereas in the Library paradigm, users trust information depending upon the authority of its author, in the Village paradigm, trust comes from our sense of intimacy and connection with the person we are getting an answer from. Added: February 3, 2010 at 1:57PM EST
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Ryan said:
Platform with a lot of potential: Looks like a FriendFeed for topics, or a modernized Yahoo Group that still acts like a stream (a real-time stream, even) without going all social-networky a la Ning.
Quote: Some of the features are simple and effective – like giving badges for participation. And others are just proven engagement tacticts, like adding a “like” link by comments to show support for what’s being said. This is nothing new to users of sites like Facebook and Twitter, but it’s compelling stuff when you look at aging forum services. Added: December 17, 2009 at 8:07AM EST
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Ryan said:
SPJ lists five social media sites for journalists like you.
Added: August 31, 2009 at 8:42PM EDT
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Ryan said:
Great advice via GeekDad: "The first step is to make sure you and your teen are making full use of the privacy controls that Facebook provides. Those controls allow users to decide whether and how personal information is distributed and to whom. Facebook users do not always make full use of privacy controls, perhaps because they do not have a full understanding of what personal information may be widely exposed when privacy is not taken into account." (The problem, of course, is that you're assuming teenagers listen to their parents.)
Added: August 21, 2009 at 12:02PM EDT
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The 'Facebook Lite' news broke a couple nights ago. Lots of speculation about a 'Twitter-killer' but MG Siegler reports: "But in reality, Facebook Lite has nothing to do with Twitter or FriendFeed — at least, not right now. Instead, it was designed to be used in parts of the world where broadband speeds vary and can be expensive, we’re being told by Facebook. Given that the initial testing of it has taken place in India over the past several days, this makes sense."
Added: August 13, 2009 at 8:08AM EDT
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Ryan said:
Ah, so I guess it wasn't real-time search they needed FriendFeed for after all. Just the talent, then. And, of course, FriendFeed not existing, eventually.
Added: August 11, 2009 at 12:06AM EDT
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Ryan said:
Paul Balcerak has issues with trust and TechCrunch, but as far as I was concerned, a big Silicon Valley acquisition story is what they're all about, and I assume they don't report something like "Facebook acquires Friendfeed" unless it's really happening.
Added: August 10, 2009 at 11:06PM EDT
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- jowyang: Signal vs Noise: @scoblezier just unfollowed over 93,000 people, admits that auto-follow was wrong.
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Ryan said:
The truth is, auto-follow was just fine until masses of spammers, affiliate spammers, and wannabe social media "experts" flooded the network, following anything that moved. For personal use of social networks, following everyone back just doesn't scale.
Added: August 4, 2009 at 10:33AM EDT
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Ryan said:
Joshua Porter on leaderboards that work in social apps, and leaderboards that don't. I'd like to think the 'good question' and 'good answer' buttons to award points in ReportingOn 2.0 only reward positive actions, rather than any old action at all.
Added: July 15, 2009 at 1:15PM EDT
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Ryan said:
Laura Oliver from journalism.co.uk asked me a few questions about ReportingOn 2.0 by e-mail. I said: "It's an absolute re-imagining of the network."
Added: July 1, 2009 at 9:15AM EDT
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