Tag: social networking
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I can’t believe I’m writing a blog post about Google+
Really. I’m more surprised than you are, I promise. Also, I promise this will not be a blog post about “What news organizations can do with Google+” or anything of the sort. Promise. Will. Not. So the thing that consistently confuses me about social products from Google is that as a user, I have truly…
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“We have the information they need.”
“We have the information they need.” — Anil Dash asks How should a White House Quora Work?
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Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
Aardvark has published a whitepaper outlining some of the technology and much of the logic behind their social search engine. Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
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How Important are Avatars? – Bokardo
Joshua Porter on the importance of avatars in social applications: “Trust is a crucial byproduct of avatars that we can leverage in design. In one of my current consulting projects we’re working on what you might call “time to first known avatar”. That is, we are trying to speed up the time it takes for…
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On IdeaLab: ReportingOn, rephrased in the form of a question
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, where I write about the development of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, I just posted something that starts to get into what Phase 2 of the “back channel for your beat” is going to look like. Well, not what it’s going to *look* like exactly, but how it’s…
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A List Apart: Articles: The Elements of Social Architecture
Thoughtful and mildly theoretical (or at the very least, psychological) notes for anyone building a social component to a network. A List Apart: Articles: The Elements of Social Architecture
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A podcast in which I discuss the merits and limits of Ning with Pat Thornton
I spent 20 minutes or so talking about Wired Journalists and Ning with Pat Thornton last week for a BeatBlogging.org podcast. Here are some highlights from Pat’s list of questions: Would you choose Ning again if you could start over? How specific should a topic be for a Ning site to be specific? How many…
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New at Wired Journalists: WJ Tutorials
One of the original visions for Wired Journalists was that the “already-wired” would write tutorials about new media, new tools, and getting around the busier corners of the Web, for the benefit of the “non-wired” and everyone in the community. It’s happened in fits and starts, but Pat Thornton of BeatBlogging.org is taking on a…
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Go-to-market strategies for vertical social products | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
“users * num_friends * conversion % = new users” Go-to-market strategies for vertical social products | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen
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django-psn – Google Code
Leah Culver of Pownce is the developer of this pluggable app to collect and display users’ social network links and connections. django-psn – Google Code