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Splog scout patrol

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:54:15 +0000

Finding 50 new comments is a wonderful sign your blog has reached a level of popularity, until you see they are all for sites that no human would visit. Time to get the anti-robot patrol on full-time duty.

Social Networks - delivering communications

admin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:34:01 +0000

Just close your eyes… take a deep breath… and imagine a world without email. What used to be mail messages are now posts, tagged and targeted and secure. Your PDA, mobile phone, or desktop readers are instantly notified of the communication directed at you, and can immediately navigate to it so you can read it and respond. Filtering is tunable and works. No full inboxes, no bounces, and no spam. Is this a dream or is it the future?

The drifting of social networks

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:33:21 +0000

Social networks can be driven by a few active and vocal members in a way that pushes other members away. One a larger scale, the million-plus member sites have a relative minority of abusers, scammers, stalkers and the like which do chase people to other sites (or away from social networking sites entirely).

The original incubator 1.0

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:10:32 +0000

Before the internet, before the web 2.0 or web 1.0, before electricity was harnessed… there were egg incubators…