After following a link from Steve Rubel, I’ve been giving SpinVox’s new beta social network update service a test drive. It’s good, really good. The text to voice conversion is excellent if (unlike me) you talk slowly and enunciate carefully. The updates, although not as fast as existing methods, arenot cripplingly slow. There are two [...]
Reputations are hard to build and easy to lose, which explains why Amazon reviewers do not take kindly to criticism, but are Amazon too quick to remove negative votes and comments after the ‘victims’ complain? Stephen J Dubner investigates in this excellent Freakonomics blog article. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/more-amazon-shenanigans/. Stephen’s conclusions seem pretty clearcut, but a read through [...]
This nice (albeit buggy in places) del.icio.us mashup visualises in chart form how consumers have tagged and defined your content for others to find. I particularly like the way you can easily tap into the way web visitors see web content. Look at the chart for Tesco. It’s interesting how their wider offering is represented through [...]
