Category Archives: Reputation

Top Diggers – No More

Posted on February 1, 2007 by

Kevin Rose has just announced that Digg is scrapping the Top Diggers list. Some of our top users – the people that have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours finding and digging the best stuff – are being blamed … Continue reading →

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Citizendium

Posted on January 23, 2007 by

Citizendium, is the new Wiki project, started by Larry Sanger, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia. They define the project as follows: The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by … Continue reading →

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How many identities do you have?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by

I have been thinking about the differences in teenage and adult behavior in the sphere or creating and managing identities. You can read my take over on the Read/WriteWeb (Thanks Richard, for the great job editing and laying out the … Continue reading →

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Agent Smith Effect

Posted on January 17, 2007 by

(For those of you, who haven’t seen the “Matrix” movies, Agent Smith was one of the protagonists of Neo. His special ability, after a mutation, was that he could create as many copies of himself as he liked. Also, you … Continue reading →

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PowerReviews Takes On Amazon.com With Distributed Model

Posted on January 12, 2007 by

This Tuesday, I was at the NewTechMeetup, where I saw a presentation from Robert Chea, Founder and COO of PowerReviews. You can read my review of the startup over on the Read/WriteWeb (Thanks, Richard MacManus, for the opportunity!).

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The Tipping Point

Posted on January 8, 2007 by

I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell’s wonderful book – The Tipping Point. The book talks about how and why, word-of-mouth epidemics, spread. There are lot of interesting studies and data points, related to human behavior, referred to in the book. … Continue reading →

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Attributor

Posted on January 5, 2007 by

Interesting piece in the WSJ about a start-up in redwood city, called Attributor. Attributor analyzes the content of clients, who could range from individuals to big media companies, using a technique known as “digital fingerprinting,” which determines unique and identifying … Continue reading →

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Problem with Trackbacks

Posted on December 30, 2006 by

Recently, I got a trackback from a blog that seemed to have very little in common with my blog or the specific post I had. Upon further review, I found that the blog belonged to purveyors of a nasty little … Continue reading →

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Influence Scale

Posted on December 13, 2006 by

Check out the post at TrivialTV blog that details, via a graph, the relationship between inbound links and visitors to a site (Great data and thanks for making it public)… In August 2006 I painstakingly harvested data to investigate the … Continue reading →

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eBay ratings booster

Posted on December 7, 2006 by

I came across this fascinating piece on Auctionbyte, about how some users are gaming the eBay rating system. Many eBay users are familiar with sellers who use a low-price/high-shipping strategy to manipulate eBay search results. But less well known is … Continue reading →

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