Bradley Horowitz é o VP da Yahoo para a investigação em Web Social. Neste video podemos assistir a uma pequena entrevista, em que Bradley aponta alguns objectivos da Yahoo, que já tem uma versão beta de um motor de busca social, o My Web 2.0
"Yahoo's efforts to build out social search is gaining "critical mass," says Product Strategy VP Bradley Horowitz. He talks with Bambi Francisco about monetizing these efforts and how the company is well-positioned to get into the video-uploading service game."
26.4.06
Receiver #15
Mais um número da Receiver, o 15º, com edição online pela Vodafone. A mesma qualidade a que nos tem habituado...
19.4.06
Social Networking's Gold Rush
Agora lido na BusinessWeek Online:
"So with each passing month, investors, big media companies, and advertisers are being forced to seriously consider whether social networking sites can have a viable long-term business model. Whether or not there's a future for social networking, players that are high on the sector's prospects, or simply don't want to miss out on its potential, are pouring in serious money"
"Facebook, a site for college and high-school students, plans to announce Apr. 19 that it has raised $25 million in its latest round of funding from venture-capital firms. That same day, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS), is expected to announce that it is taking a minority stake in SimplyHired, a job-hunting site with a strong social-networking component."
"So with each passing month, investors, big media companies, and advertisers are being forced to seriously consider whether social networking sites can have a viable long-term business model. Whether or not there's a future for social networking, players that are high on the sector's prospects, or simply don't want to miss out on its potential, are pouring in serious money"
"Facebook, a site for college and high-school students, plans to announce Apr. 19 that it has raised $25 million in its latest round of funding from venture-capital firms. That same day, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS), is expected to announce that it is taking a minority stake in SimplyHired, a job-hunting site with a strong social-networking component."
"F for fast": Como lemos no ecrã!?
"In an eyetracking study, Jakob Nielsen found that users often scan content on web pages in an F-shaped pattern:
- First, people scan in a horizontal movement across the upper part of the content area
- Secondly, in a shorter horizontal movement further down the page
- Finally, in a vertical movement along the content's left side
According to Jakob Nielsen the F-pattern behaviour shows that:
- People don't read text thoroughly
- The most important information should be at the top
- Headings and paragraphs must start with information-carrying words that users will notice when they scan down the left side of the content"
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17.4.06
Microsoft Social
Através do site domelhor.net do jornalista Paulo Querido, fui ler uma notícia na BusinessWeek Online sobre os novos desenvolvimentos da Microsoft na àrea da computação social, a ideia é criar um motor de busca à semelhança do Google que utiliza o algoritmo PageRank:
"MSN Search division on a comeback tour. The next stop: Social search, a way of making Web search more relevant by incorporating the preferences of like-minded Net surfers."
Flood Maps
Com informação proveniente do Google Maps, esta aplicação é preciosa para a compreensão dos resultados de uma possível inundação do planeta com o degelo dos polos. No Flood Mapsconstatei que a península de Tróia desapareceria... Mas àparte o cenário de catástrofe, o post no blog Social Signal apresenta-nos esta e outras aplicações que se servem de informação retirada de outras aplicações existentes na web para a sintetizar, criando novos serviços. Viva a Web 2.0! :)
Mas para conhecer mais destas Web 2.0 Mashups o melhor é visitar Programmable Web:
"The site maps nearly 600 mashups by plotting 78 Web 2.0 sites against each other (kind of like one of those distance finders you see on a road map). It's incredibly addictive... and an inspirational snapshot of some of the innovative energy out there on the new web."
Mas para conhecer mais destas Web 2.0 Mashups o melhor é visitar Programmable Web:
"The site maps nearly 600 mashups by plotting 78 Web 2.0 sites against each other (kind of like one of those distance finders you see on a road map). It's incredibly addictive... and an inspirational snapshot of some of the innovative energy out there on the new web."
14.4.06
Interfaces que dão e recebem conselhos!
Henry Lieberman do MIT é o autor de Interfaces That Give and Take Advice. Sobre os interfaces que possuem um sistema de aconselhamento ou sugestão, temos o exemplo da Amazon.com e ainda o Pandora.com, que por sua vez se dedica a recolher informações dos utilizadores sobre os seus gostos musicais, informação essa que pode ser aplicada em sistemas como o da Amazon na venda/sugestão de música online.
13.4.06
Folksonomy
Thomas Vander Wal cunhou o termo "folksonomy" em 2004, agora explica-nos a diferença entre a Banda estreita e a Banda Larga em folksonomies, no seu blog em vanderwal.net. Como exemplos entre os dos dois tipos de folksonomias (perdoem-me a tradução livre!), o autor dá o del.icio.us como banda larga e o Flickr para o segundo caso.
6.4.06
The new blogocracy
Danah Boyd, de quem já aqui falei, é autora de um artigo sobre a presença de bloggers na convenção do partido democrático, e o buzz gerado nos mass media.
"As a practice, journalism espouses an air of objectivity, purporting to cover all sides of a debate, equally and with emotional distance. While few believe that journalists are unbiased, it is considered a respectable aim of the profession and readers expect them to be as objective as possible. Bloggers, on the other hand, have no such cultural code and their readers rarely hold them accountable for objectivity. In fact, what makes blogging confusing for many is that the practices encompassed by that term are quite diverse."
"Bloggers at the Democratic National Convention signify a shift in media, but not a replacement for mainstream coverage. Their role will be to fill in the gaps, expose the underlying magic, and keep everyone on their toes. What they are doing cannot be compared to journalism; it can only be described as blogging."
"As a practice, journalism espouses an air of objectivity, purporting to cover all sides of a debate, equally and with emotional distance. While few believe that journalists are unbiased, it is considered a respectable aim of the profession and readers expect them to be as objective as possible. Bloggers, on the other hand, have no such cultural code and their readers rarely hold them accountable for objectivity. In fact, what makes blogging confusing for many is that the practices encompassed by that term are quite diverse."
"Bloggers at the Democratic National Convention signify a shift in media, but not a replacement for mainstream coverage. Their role will be to fill in the gaps, expose the underlying magic, and keep everyone on their toes. What they are doing cannot be compared to journalism; it can only be described as blogging."
G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide
A construção de comunidades online tem vindo a ser cada vez mais importante para as empresas que querem ter uma presença forte na Internet. Danah Boyd fez uma apresentação muito boa sobre este assunto, e o texto está disponível no seu site.
"Designers who work with networks must face these tensions and design to take advantage of the global while not destroying the local. This is a hefty challenge and one that i want us to dive into."
"The digital era has allowed us to cross space and time(...)Yet, people don't live in a global world - they are more concerned with the cultures in which they participate."
"Today, we are trying to build a whole new level of social communities. Some folks are building more open social platforms so that participants can modify the structures to meet their own needs."
Danah Boyd apresenta Craigslist, Flickr e MySpace como exemplo de comunidades que cresceram organicamente:
"They all grew organically. They each have public personalities that early adopters feel connected to. The early adopters really felt as though they were participating in and creating an intimate community, even as the community grew to millions. Users are passionate. Designers are passionate."
"Designers who work with networks must face these tensions and design to take advantage of the global while not destroying the local. This is a hefty challenge and one that i want us to dive into."
"The digital era has allowed us to cross space and time(...)Yet, people don't live in a global world - they are more concerned with the cultures in which they participate."
"Today, we are trying to build a whole new level of social communities. Some folks are building more open social platforms so that participants can modify the structures to meet their own needs."
Danah Boyd apresenta Craigslist, Flickr e MySpace como exemplo de comunidades que cresceram organicamente:
"They all grew organically. They each have public personalities that early adopters feel connected to. The early adopters really felt as though they were participating in and creating an intimate community, even as the community grew to millions. Users are passionate. Designers are passionate."
5.4.06
João Garcia Bloga
A iniciativa é boa, e outros aventureiros portugueses já o fizeram anteriormente. O alpinista João Garcia tem um blog na siconline, mas até agora os posts são da autoria do jornalista Aurélio Faria. Seria interessante ter o João na primeira pessoa, senão para quê um Blog!?...
Novo livro lançado no Abrupto
Saludo desde já a iniciativa de Agustina Bessa Luis, em fazer um pré-lançamento do seu novo livro no Blog Abrupto, de Pacheco Pereira.
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