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isabel wang's blog: The User Generated Sheep Controversy
I've always thought The Sheep Market is way cool. UCLA art student Aaron Koblin collected 10,000 hand drawn sheep via Amazon's Mechanical Turk. He paid $0.02 per sheep; now he's selling sheep stamps fParticipation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.Case Study: Is Personality-Driven Marketing Enough for Success?
My extremely unscientific research shows a pretty high correlation between percentage of personality-driven coverage and long-term successWeb 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
4C = content, commerce, community and context. Will use for ISPCON presentation with Davidhttp://www.svioklascontext.com/2006/04/you_get_what_yo.html
At its core, this YouTube versus Viacom clash is a battle between a “market” and a “bureaucracy”. YouTube may be a “corporation” in a legal sense, but in operation it is a market in content and attenPhilosophy Now
Aristotle’s Email – Or, Friendship In The Cyber AgeCommunities Dominate Brands: Talking about communities and identity - 2
We have moved from communities of neccessity, to elective communities. Where we commune with those that mean the most to us, at certain points in the day, based upon need, passion or desire.LinkedIn: Answers: How is social networking going to transform the future of business?
How is social networking going to transform the future of business?Nothing to Watch on TV? Streaming Video Appeals to Niche Audiences - New York Times
estimated that 47% of American households have broadband connections that make streaming possible because it transmits data fasterSocial Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting: NPR
Professional recruiters have started hunting for job candidates using social networking technology -- like the kind found on the popular sites MySpace and Facebook.Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites - CNN.com
There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them," said Netcraft's Rich Miller. "Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represenLeveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhance Scientific Research: Communities Dominate Brands
We see the "Social networking" benefitng science (SIPHS) Leveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhance Scientific ResearchHow to Explain Social Media to Local Small Businesses: Give Examples » Small Business Trends
When I cover trends in social media I know what they’re thinking: “This social media stuff sounds like something from Mars or Jupiter — or the West Coast. It has no meaning to my business here in thThe New Atlantis - Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism - Christine Rosen
Self-portraits can be especially instructive. By showing the artist both as he sees his true self and as he wishes to be seen. Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital; they are crafted frI Think " SIDE Theory, Small World Networks, and Smart Mob Formation
While there are several documented examples of smart mobs displaying emergent behavior, it is most important to consider the cognitive mechanisms and the network structures that create the prerequisitAdam Bosworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
12% of individuals would consult Google prior to seeing a doctorLeveraging Ideas :: Is Web 2.0 Relevant Anymore?
Web 2.0 is really an encapsulation of the greater economy: trends relating to the internet, human communication and investment opportunities. As such, agreeing upon a definition would be impossible b/Mobile Social Networking: $6B by 2012
Social networking fans will drive mobile user-generated content revenues to nearly $6bn by 2012.Social networking is expected to bring in half of the $5.7bn total revenue by the end of the 2012 forecaNew Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age - New York Times
Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethingsChristine Rosen on Virtual Friendships And The New Narcissism: /Message
continuous partial friendship", "ambient intimacy", why the "hidden call to a return to a mythical, fallen Golden Age" (lost of "primary" life & relationships) iBuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Business 2.0 - publishing 1.0 = 0
Business 2.0 should not have been a product but a community; it could have been the magazine that shows how that’s done. Sadly, this magazine was made by a 1.0 company that just didn’t understand howInterview with danah boyd: O'Reilly Network
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