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The social web: All about the small stuff
From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives. [...]
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Official Google Blog: The future of search
Marisa Mayer talks about using location, natural language (and voice), mobile media, and social networks to personalize search in the next 10 years. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffuture-of-search.html
The Potential End Of America’s Government - The Market Ticker
It is shocking what is [...]
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The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
This is a good write up on a number of things I’ve been thinking about related to Dunbar’s number and online social network size. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifewithalacrity.com%2F2004%2F03%2Fthe_dunbar_numb.html
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Floozy Speak!: Valley of the Turks
Here is another research look at why Turkers participate: “They are motivated by fun and by fast cash.” Corroborates Panos’ findings in his MT demographics blog post.
Visualization of Clinton & Obama primary results
This is an awesome visualization: it breaks down the demographics of [...]
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities - ReadWriteWeb
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs …
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