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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:
This is a game in which you attack your enemies by yelling loudly into a microphone. (Spotted via Engadget.)
Added: February 2, 2010 at 10:43AM EST
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Ryan said:
Another take on the iPad -- and the reaction to it from some technologists -- that's a bit closer to how I feel about both.
Quote: Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Added: January 29, 2010 at 5:04PM EST
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Ryan said:
Nick Carr's instant reaction to the Apple iPad announcement is my favorite piece of writing about it so far.
Quote: The rapturous reaction to Apple’s tablet - the buildup to Jobs’s announcement blurred the line between media feeding-frenzy and orgiastic pagan ritual - shows that our attitude to the tablet form has shifted. Tablets suddenly look attractive. Why? Because the nature of personal computing has changed. Added: January 27, 2010 at 5:05PM EST
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- buzz: Saw someone I thought I recognized from the web at @boneshakers, and Foursquare confirmed it. "Shazam for People" has arrived.
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- Added: January 26, 2010 at 4:22PM EST
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Ryan said:
If you read the profile of Shai Agassi and his company in Wired last year, you know why this is important.
Quote: Recently, Better Place has shifted its focus to battery-switching stations over straightforward plug-in charging stations like those being developed by Coulomb Technologies. The company plan is to launch a chain of sites where drivers could trade in depleted batteries for fully-charged ones. Added: January 25, 2010 at 10:03AM EST
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- The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare)
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Ryan said:
Good advice from Robert Scoble on building social software.
Quote: 2. Measure behavior and report it. Do you want your users to check in? Then measure it like Foursquare does and report it. What’s the home screen of Foursquare’s iPhone app show you? Everytime someone of your friends checks in they show up there. Foursquare reports how big a loser I am because there are 34 people in San Francisco area who’ve checked in more than me this week. Added: January 25, 2010 at 9:59AM EST
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Ryan said:
Nick Bilton on the cause, method, and effect of human curation of the Web.
Quote: We’ve reduced the fear of missing something important because we share “controlled serendipity” with others and they with us. And without this collective discovery online, I couldn’t imagine trying to cull the tens of thousands of new links and stories that appear in the looking glass on a daily basis. Added: January 22, 2010 at 12:19PM EST
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- Siftables, the Amazing Computerized Toy Blocks, Are Coming To a Store Near You (Hopefully Soon)
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Ryan said:
If you didn't check out the TED video of these things yet, do so. Fun futuristic hackable toys.
Quote: Siftables blocks can transmit music cues to each other to become musical instruments, display letters or numbers for educational games, or interact with a console to become the controllers for a larger gaming system. By giving physical form to abstract data, the blocks bridge the gap between physical and virtual. Added: January 20, 2010 at 11:07AM EST
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Ryan said:
In which a cheap LED flashlight with origins in a Woot "Bag of Crap" helps an American in Haiti find his way through the dark, earthquake-torn streets of Port-au-Prince.
Quote: The flashlight lit my way very reliably. As I said in my journal, THANK YOU, BAG OF CRAP! Added: January 20, 2010 at 7:23AM EST
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