Me v. Ze Frank (not so much…)

Gordon Luk has a really interesting post that I’ll use as a launching pad to clarify a point I often make in public lectures… In the interest of saving you a click, see below.

This reminded me of Umair’s article “Why Yahoo Didn’t Build MySpace…” which basically suggests that the pyramid of participation I […]

Breaking: Stewart playing with Sonnet, taking fewer meetings

Stewart responds to the Valleywag post:

Aaaaaaaactually, I’m going on paternity leave, not leaving Yahoo! (I took some of my leave in July and found that I rushed back a little early.) I am actually going to be changing more diapers and coaxing more burps for a while (thanks for getting that right - I do […]

Flickr is stupid, and late… but redeems itself.

I love Stewart Butterfield.
This is why I am in Berlin right now btw…

Why the famous get famouser…

Kottke points to a great article by Columbia’s Duncan Watts…
The social context of content has everything to do with it’s meaning. It’s one of the reasons that I think that a purely pixel-based algorithmic approach to, say, image recognition is doomed. In optimistic moments, I’ve said that the computer vision community may produce […]

Cool Flickr Geotagging Examples

Stewart recently showed me some very cool (and in some cases surprising) Flickr geotagging examples. Here’s a few I loved.
Where is the neighborhood in Manhattan known as Tribeca?

Get your kicks, on Route 66

Food tour of Asia

What I love about the “tribeca” and “route 66″ examples is that they show emergent knowledge in the system. […]

Interesting(ness) post from O’Reilly

Chad told me that Tim O’Reilly posted about interestingness today. I’ve been contemplating another post about interestingness for a while, and I was glad Tim beat me to the punch! Some of this I hope to discuss at the Adaptive Path UX conference Wednesday too.
I’ve been starting out most talks that I’ve given […]

Bug (and other) identification services

“Better Search through People” applied to image search? Or Yahoo! Visual Answers?
BoingBoing references a “bug identification service” called “What’s that bug?” that allows folks to send in photos of bugs for identification. (Looks like Yahoo featured this three years ago too…
Based on a cursory glance at the site, this isn’t exactly what I’d […]

Flickr as “Eyes of the World”

The Elephant’s guides
Originally uploaded by Phil Gyford.

Stewart has referred to Flickr as the “Eyes of the World”… This is a totally apropos vision, but also a not so veiled reference to Stewart’s hippie roots.
While I was a grad student, colleagues Ted Adelson and John Wang […]