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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Geni and the joys of digital economics

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

I picked up this link from O’Reilly Radar and it’s impressed me. Geni is a site where families can collaborate to create their family trees. The usability of the site itself is terrific (it’s all built in Flash) and it took almost no time to create the first few sections of the tree. It’s really [...]

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Night work at Waterloo

Saturday, March 10, 2007

So why don’t electronic signs have spell-checkers?

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Time to vote again … Jpgmag

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Jpgmag voting time has come round again. I don’t know why I’m so pleased with this, but it’s a really nice close-up. Please vote for it!

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Wikipedia and the credibility of UGC

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Reading this Register article, it’s prompted me to ask how we can be sure of the reliability of content that’s been created by volunteers, and moderated by volunteers, almost entirely in their own time. A prominent contributor and editor, whose profile claims two PhDs, turns out to be a 24 year old with no PhDs [...]

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Some user generated content…

Sunday, March 4, 2007

… is good, and some is just weird. This is the latter. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFP0q4qzGw4] I don’t really understand why Seth Godin told us about this here. This is a very odd unicorn film, watch at your peril.

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Shoot Experience kicks off its 2007 schedule with Shoot Portobello

Friday, March 2, 2007

We entered Shoot City last year, and 2 of our photos were included in their exhibition. Their first event of 2007 has just been announced, and it’s on March 31st, centred on Portobello and Notting Hill in West London. You can register here.

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Social Search – where’s it going?

Thursday, March 1, 2007

I was asked the other day what I thought about social search, Yahoo! Answers etc. Here’s what I replied. There is a belief that algorithmic search, of the sort that Google etc use, isn’t good at certain kinds of operations. An example would be that some affiliate sites rate very highly for searches on certain [...]

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