Crowdsourcing for Sidewalk.com
Wednesday July 01st 2009, 12:21 pm
Filed under: Personal Technology, Web 2.0, Web Design, Internet

Citysearch, a division of IAC, wants to build out Sidewalk.com as a local guide site, and instead of launching their own coding project is testing the crowdsourcing waters. Entrants get a shot at a $10K prize and (possibly) additional funding to realize the project. Here’s the outline of ...

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Contrasting Pubcon and SXSW
Saturday March 28th 2009, 3:54 pm
Filed under: Community Building, Marketing & PR, Web 2.0, Web Design, Internet, Social Networking

The dust has settled after my back to back Web conferences in Austin: WebmasterWorld’s Pubcon South, and South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, and I thought I’d take a minute to compare the two. I’ll start by saying that any such comparison is beyond apples & oranges… the two conferences ...

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Does SXSW Hate Microsoft?
Thursday March 19th 2009, 2:47 pm
Filed under: Web 2.0, Web Design, Random Musings, Internet

I remember in the early days of the Web it wasn’t uncommon for a site to tell you that you could only view the site in a particular browser, or that if you didn’t have a specific resolution you might not see everything. Eventually, web designers figured out that ...

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Ball State to Pump $17 Million into New Media
Friday December 05th 2008, 9:05 am
Filed under: Random Musings, E-Commerce, Internet

Ball State University, a member of the Indiana state university system, is further differentiating itself from its better-known siblings IU - Bloomington and Purdue by pouring money into new media: (more…)

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Partnership Pitfalls and Avoiding Murder
Tuesday January 01st 2008, 9:22 pm
Filed under: Random Musings, E-Commerce, Internet

While flipping channels, I ran across an episode of City Confidential, a show that takes viewers on a trip to an American city while recounting a murder there. This particular episode involved two business partners - one was convicted of killing the other. The murder victim was apparently ...

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Google 411: Impressive Debut
Friday October 12th 2007, 12:20 am
Filed under: Search Engine Marketing, Search Technology, Personal Technology, Internet

Today, I was driving in San Francisco with a couple of other SEO-types and we spotted a prominent billboard for Google’s 411 service. The sign wasn’t too specific, but it conveyed that it was a free directory information service of some type. So, being intrepid explorers, we gave ...

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Social Roles in Web Communities
Thursday October 04th 2007, 7:31 am
Filed under: Community Building, Web 2.0, Internet

Every community operator knows that it takes different kinds of participants to be successful. Some people come looking for answers, others come to help. Some like to expound at length, while others say little. Some are lurkers, others are prolific contributors. Researchers from Cornell and Microsoft ...

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Why Users Create Content
Tuesday September 11th 2007, 9:04 am
Filed under: Community Building, Web 2.0, Internet

A key aspect of Web 2.0 is letting users create or enhance a site’s content. This sounds great, but in practice can be hard to achieve. The Web is littered with dead forums, unreviewed products, spammed-out wikis, and other failed attempts to build user-created sites. Consulting giant ...

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PR Disasters Lurk in Web 2.0 Chicanery
Thursday August 23rd 2007, 10:23 am
Filed under: Community Building, Marketing & PR, Web 2.0, Internet

The good news is that companies, even big ones, are waking up to the power of online communities, and that they are taking steps like starting their own communities for discussion, ratings, reviews, and social networking as well as participating at other sites. The bad news is that sometimes ...

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Infidelity 2.0: Virtual Reality, or Just Reality?
Monday August 13th 2007, 8:32 am
Filed under: Community Building, Web 2.0, Internet

Since the early days of Internet-based communities and chat rooms, individuals found that they could invent new online personas for themselves. Unencumbered by real-world details like physical appearance, social status, and their back balance, they could “be” themselves and interact with others doing the same thing. In most ...

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