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Cellphedia, a SMS Social Network Service
Roland Piquepaille writes "Based on ideas taken from Wikipedia and dodgeball, Cellphedia allows its members to broadcast questions to its community and receive answers, using SMS text messaging on cell phones. Here is how it works, according to "Cellphedia Melds Facts with Mobile Smart Mobs" from E-Commerce Times. First, you register for free on the site and you indicate your subjects of interest. If you want to ask a question, it is sent to all the members who expressed interest in this particular subject. Finally, the first answer received by Cellphedia is sent back to you. This means that later answers, which could have been more accurate, are discarded. But this service is still very young and its creator is working hard to improve it. Read more for some examples of questions and answers stored on the Cellphedia central server."
Roland Piquepaille, go to hell!
He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sounds almost like what I use Slashdot for.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
No, really... that's what it says.
With all the advances in KM over the years, maybe a more interesting approach would be to have the system aggregate/rate responses over a period of time and respond with the top 3 or so. As planned, I would think the system described is less than useful, it would be downright obnoxious once it hit critical mass (go read every first post on
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
Hang on, let me check...
Me: *SMS* "Y Timmy 4 teh Roland?"
sending...
1 new message...
Answer: Get cheap viagra for extra hardness
Anyone else think that this will be a race against legit answers and spam?
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Slashdot has users go out and find stories. They then copy and paste a part of the story and link to it. They then add a comments section so that people can earn karma by either stating restating public opinion on the matter or by finding fault in it, even if it requires going to ridiculous extremes. The whole time this is happening, Slashdot is posting ads. The more people comment, the more ads get served, the more ads Slashdot can sell.
What I find so ridiculously funny about this whole Roland deal is that the constant bitching about it. There's an ad being served for every rply to it. Right now, I'm seeing a Vonage ad while I'm posting this. All these efforts to bitch about Roland until he goes away are actually giving Slashdot a damned good reason to keep him around.
I've been saying this, but I guess I'll just have to keep saying this: Quitcherbitchen. When Roland stories only generate a handful of comments, they won't accept his stories anymore. It's not as fun as going on a crusade against him, but if you really care about your goals...
"Derp de derp."