Tech blog founder says social news sites too easily manipulated
New York Times Jan 30, 08 12:29 PM CST
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Social news sites like Digg don’t work, says Slashdot founder Rob Malda, and Ron Paul is Exhibit A. “A lot of these community news sites are all about Ron Paul,” Malda told the New York Times . “What that is really demonstrating is that you are seeing 1 or 2 percent of a community shaping where the whole community is going.”
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OPINION
Outmoded, mismanaged company is poised for implosion
ABC News Jan 25, 08 2:25 PM CST
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After miraculously withstanding the dot-com crash, Yahoo is again poised to fall face first off a virtual cliff, with its plummeting stock hardly masked by national economic disrepair. But despite hemorrhaging users to Google, the company is still a huge presence on the Web, with 3 billion daily hits. So "what has gone wrong at Yahoo?" asks ABC's Michael S. Malone.
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Businesses using competitions for manpower
ComputerWorld Dec 6, 07 11:45 AM CST
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If you want something done right, have a bunch of strangers do it for you. That’s the ethos behind “crowdsourcing,” a trend that has companies turning to the masses for a host of jobs normally done in-house – from writing code to designing products to conducting market surveys. Companies hope hordes of helpers will speed up development, and invite innovative ideas, ComputerWorld explains.
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District officials not bullish on popular online encyclopedia
Seattle Times Nov 27, 07 5:38 PM CST
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Wikipedia's so quick and easy—too easy, ruled a New Jersey school district, the latest of many to ban use of the popular online encyclopedia by its students and block it on school computers, fearing potentially erroneous information from the communally edited site will pollute minds and papers. “Kids just take it for gospel, they really do,” fretted the librarian leading the charge.
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VC firm Kleiner looking for 'more fundamental innovations'
All Things Digital Nov 5, 07 2:55 PM CST
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Today's launch of Web 2.0 Expo Berlin notwithstanding, there are hints that "second-generation" Web companies are losing appeal in the venture capital community -- or at least with prestigious Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Digital Daily cites a KPCB partner who recently told a Silicon Valley journalist that he has "no interest in funding" such companies.
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Big-time remake of Nick Haley's unofficial YouTube spot highlights trend in user-generated content
New York Times Oct 26, 07 4:28 PM CDT
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Apple's next iPod Touch commercial was born in the mind not of some slick ad exec but of a British university student with a little free time. Eighteen-year-old Apple devotee Nick Haley married kickin' music with animations of the Touch's features last month and posted the result on YouTube—where it got noticed by Apple execs who remade it in HD.
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Company co-founder talks about the struggle to stay relevant
CNET Oct 24, 07 12:54 AM CDT
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Being the CEO of Yahoo is no cakewalk, according to co-founder Jerry Yang, speaking yesterday at a conference in California, News.com reports. "It is a lonely job in the sense that you have to make some of the tough calls," Yang said of the job he finally took 13 years after co-founding the company. Among those tough decisions for Yang, since his ascension in June, has been how to deal with the dominance of Google.
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Genetic scans just need more processing power, says famed geneticist
CNET Oct 19, 07 3:44 PM CDT
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Eventually, you may be able to Google the DNA of a prospective date to see if they've got any undesirable genes, geneticist Craig Venter said yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, cNet reports. The cost of a complete DNA sequence, once $70 million is now about $300,000, and a $100,000 target is in sight.
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Zuckerberg says going public is years away
CNET Oct 18, 07 12:21 AM CDT
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Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has quashed speculation over a possible initial public offering. Speaking to an overspill audience at the Web 2.0 conference, held in a ballroom of the ornate Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Zuckerberg said Facebook, the popular internet social network, would not be selling shares on Wall Street anytime soon.
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New teaching, learning styles may spell
an end to lectures
CNET Jul 31, 07 6:33 PM CDT
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An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow students to work and learn more efficiently and even help recruiting.
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Domain name SEO.com sells for $5 million,
raising the specter of
a virtual real estate bubble
Search Engine Land Jun 26, 07 7:01 AM CDT
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WashingtonVC has purchased the domain name SEO.com (as in "search engine marketing") for $5 million for its portfolio company Web Targeted. With a large percentage of Web traffic now coming from search engines, optimizing Web sites for visibility to them has become one of the hottest areas in which to invest.
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User-generated site pulls code,
loses cred, reverses course
iTWire May 2, 07 9:06 AM CDT
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Web 2.0 blogs are rushing to declare Digg dead, after a night in which the site's main page was saturated with its own obituaries. The web's most popular user-generated news site prompted a mutiny by removing posts revealing how to crack encrypted DVDs and HDs. Digg said the illegal posts put the site's survival at risk.
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Epidemic of nastiness has techies mulling
a Web 2.0 code of conduct
New York Times Apr 9, 07 7:53 AM CDT
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Prominent techies are calling for a code of conduct for the Web 2.0 blogosphere. The group, which includes Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, urges that bloggers purge their sites of anonymous comments and delete libelous or menacing ones. “If it’s a carefully constructed set of principles, it could carry a lot of weight even if not everyone agrees,” Wales said.
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New outlets, "small TV" programming shifting the idiot-box paradigm
Wired Apr 7, 07 11:11 AM CDT
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TV executives are biting their nails over the future of their medium, even as conventional indicators suggest it's never been stronger. Wired reports that sitcoms and dramas are winning, not losing, audiences, but through financially amorphous pipelines like DVDs, iTunes downloads and even homemade web-casts. "Traditional TV won't be here in seven to 10 years," warns CBS producer Kim Moses.
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How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into Napster?
New York Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
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With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they had, they decided to stare down Sumner Redstone instead of sharing revenue.
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