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Cluztr (http://www.cluztr.com) is a social bookmarking site which bares your browsing habits to the world. Every site you visit is registered, logged and displayed for all to see (if you want you can control access to friends or family). It’s a logical addition to the ‘always on’ culture inherent in Twitter and Jaiku. Imagine being able [...]
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Interesting polls on the Hakia blog on where people see search improving. The first was;
What do you think a search engine should do? (504 votes)
Perhaps unsurprisingly the abillity of search tools to think in a more human way comes top of the poll with 38% of the votes. The other poll asked;
What ’search 2.0′ concepts you think [...]
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The Google Image Labeler is a feature designed to reward more accurate tagging of image content. The goal is for image based searches, reliant on tagging for search, to throw up more useful results and employs a points system to reward the user for tagging in a more conformist way.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-image-labeler-is-more-exciting.html
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This is interesting. Google are soon to offer widgets for advertisers allowing webmasters, bloggers and board runners to host widgetised content on their sites in standard ad space format.
Heads up from Steve R.
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So I’m not the only one who thinks so…
http://www.techmeme.com/070510/p43#a070510p43
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Yahoo are hiring two well know economics and sociology researchers (Duncan Watts and R. Preston McAfee) to head their arm dedicated to understanding the ebb and flow of human interaction on social networks. Duncan Watts, sociology professor at Colombia explains his remit as "trying to understand how social networks and communities evolve over time, how people [...]
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http://www.feedmap.net/ maps the blogosphere against a Google Maps style API. It also allows you to download a tiny map onto your blog highlighting where you are in the world. Also check out www.plazes.com for a similar geo-tagged networking feast. Not many people on there at the moment but the potential is there for big growth. Initiatives like [...]
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http://jaiku.com, the Finnish based micro-blogging platform seems to be getting talked about more and more. You don’t ‘tweet’ - instead you post ‘jaikus’ which probably sounds better in Finnish than I’m saying it (jighcoos?). I’m in Helsinki at the moment and will ask reception tomorrow morning how to properly pronounce. Some big names on there as well.
See [...]
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The City List is a new initiative taking a Digg style consumer ratings approach to ordering city hotspots like apartments, museums and bars. It harnesses Google’s mapping technology to show where each hotspot (and hovel) is located. According to City List;
Rankings on theCityList are generated weekly and determined by your positive [or negative] votes. Submit your favorite spots [...]
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This is a really eye-watering ascension. To me, it’s a strong indication of just how much better networked and immediate social media has become. The comparison of blog posts to tweets makes less direct comparative sense although it’s still interesting to see side by side. Would be great to compare actual units of sentiment, information, insight etc [...]
