Remember Microsoft Works? You probably have it installed on your Windows PC right now. With the ubiquitous MS Office so dominating word processing and spreadsheet software, the low-end MS Works suite is largely forgotten. Things may be looking up for the neglected, runty sibling of MS Office. ...
High growth, high traffic sites like MySpace and YouTube are poster children for the Web 2.0 concept of letting your users create your content. But, there are sometimes problems when one lets users post whatever they want - spam, inappropriate content, and, of course, content that is owned by ...
Last week, we wrote about Google’s use of a simple game to encourage users to participate in a social tagging experiment, and even offered our suggestion for a new Google Game. The high level of participation in a short time suggests that Google’s use of a game strategy resulted ...
Many business executives dream of making the cover of a major newsweekly, but Hewlett-Packard Chairman Pattie Dunn would have passed on this week’s Newsweek cover in a heartbeat. Last week, we talked about HP’s PR fiasco, and as expected things haven’t improved for the ebattled chairman of the board. ...
HP didn’t just shoot itself in the foot, it blew its whole leg off. In what will surely go down in business history as one of the more bizarre exercises of corporate paranoia, Hewlett-Packard is in the midst of a public relations disaster after engaging in unethical and perhaps ...
A couple of days ago, we wrote about Google’s clever idea of enlisting its users to tag images with keywords by turning it into a game (see Google Image Labeler - Game-based Social Tagging). I think there’s little doubt that some useful data will come from the process that ...
Google Image Labeler is a fascinating concept. The basic idea is that two indivduals will be matched up randomly and be shown the same picture from Google’s index of Web images. Each user starts typing in descriptive words. When they match on a word, a hundred points ...
In New Web sites seek profit in wikis, CNET News.com describes the efforts of hardy pioneers to turn wikis into profit centers. One such startup is wikHow, which lets users post “how-to” instructions and articles. Run with the same software as the better known Wikipedia, the site has ...
