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 […]
Yahoo buys Bix
I said it all over here.
So one thing to note… It turns out that the voice in my head does sound a lot better than the one that is being recorded. Something must be defective with the microphone, the Bix system, or whatever that keeps knocking it out of tune. Until I […]
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 […]
Searching for what doesn’t exist…
As an industry, we’ve made a ton of progress in search over the last several years. Yet there is a subtle but profound limitation to “web search” as currently realized: search engines can only return results that… well… you know… exist.
At a glance this doesn’t seem to be much of […]
Lowering Barriers to Participation
In a previous post, I mentioned our efforts around lowering barriers to entry for participation, i.e. empowering consumers with tools that transform them into creators. Tagging is perhaps the simplest and most direct example of how lowering a barrier to entry can drive and spur participation.
Tagging works, in part, because it’s so simple. Rather than […]
Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers
As Yahoo! has been gobbling up many social media sites over the past year (Flickr, upcoming, del.icio.us) I often get asked about how (or whether) we believe these communities will scale.
The question led me to draw the following pyramid on a nearby whiteboard:
The levels in the pyramid represent phases of value creation. As an example […]