Amazon made one step further and offers the tool to completely outsource and automate CAPTCHA breaking and mostly any kind of human-only online activity using: Amazon Mechanical Turk. One can outsource HITs to China or wherever for $0.005 per achieved task.
so far companies rely mainly on surveys for feedback regarding their products. One of the problem with surveys is that normal people tend to reject them, so then we end up trusting the feelings of a small survey-geek market; that are low paid to answer and give unrelevant feedback.
blog/online feedback research is different in that it focuses on what people consider is worth saying/writing about a certain product. The risk of bias is less probable, because of transparency.
Is it meant to be a dynamic full featured rendering engine? Maybe it is, but AJAX should clean itself up from the kind of code that increases rendering time. Did anyone try using firefox's extensions on a slow linux box? Or even on Windows, I often have to start FF in safe mode just to get a clean start.
the famous google analytics also stuffs 18kb of Javascript crap to the client's computer (doesn't bother bandwidth on target site though), and forces a cookie rendering, all this done in client-side javascript on every single visited page. They got away with it because of nice free reports and GOOG's umbrella
as far I see it, wikipedia might be "too young" on the web spere, and has many things to learn from./ and the like.
On the other side, wikipedia is the website that might be the closest thing to a collective human conscious that we have, and spam and vandalism is part of our nature, therefore will never go away for good.
Why not cut away the unreadable cvs-diff-like Recent Changes page and put instead an innovative topic map GUI that allows a quick overview of the recent changes and hot topic/trends? Then open this "map" to the regular users; so each can cross-check the recent changes so that vandalism/errors get cut away faster
The legend goes that the QWERTY keyboard was also made intentionally clumsy to slow down original typewriters that typed too fast and broke mechanical keyboards. Since we're proposing such a change, why not do it properly this time and create the proper optimum layout?
In other news, the keyboard layout will never change. we're just too used to it, period. These are the lessons that we need to learn We might switch to a better system someday, like this one:
It appears to be a lesson every of the Web 2.0 CEO must learn: pop up your human side, dress casual and don't show your wealth. And the best of all: make people say poor guy; manipulate people's sympathy (Rose's girlfriend sad story, sleepless etc), it will open all doors
I don't know what's worse: the naive./ population or this whole website that smells miles away of amateurship and "not yet, bu I will/am going to" ?rap. I could bet that after the media wave goes away, there will be no pre-orders to fuel further development. This is actually sad news, since the idea of Jetpacks is in itself a very exciting one. If only inventors would learn how to present themselves..
great idea; but is it worth doing it? I think the same logic applies to the article's main point: is it worth writing notifiable stories? Carefully analyzing every word and every possible implications. Create outstanding writings in a culture that doesn't react at such? hey, we're living in the long-tail blogosphere junk, would a great article/idea get the proper attention?
probably as just many members of the techno-gizmo brain-washed generation, I can't follow the historical part of the article. However I can read the Times, and Michael Elliot and the others still create pieces worth mentioning. It's maybe a part of the "old media" that couldn't be yet digested by the junior?
Anyway, the raised points are valid and makes you wonder: what is it worth writing about? Seth Godin (video)gives no clues, but makes you think about it.
why not genetically engineer the fruit so that it turns black when it ripes? bananas already do.
seriously now, it's a nice project, but probably won't stand enough to become practical.
your explanations sound good, and if it were just R&D that could mature into some unknown-yet business things are indeed great. If google were a treee, besides getting more experience, the engineers get more and more work into various areas; therefore the branches of this tree tend to consume more of its initial power. Now we are whitnessing the tree growth, which is admirable, but later on it'll be the laws of nature speaking. Then it's the entire tree that either collapses or stagnates; unless bad branches get chopped away.
there simply has to be a time in google's future when they will stop throwing money at flashy rounded-corners web2.x apps, and try squeasing money out of their plethora of experiments.
In regards to gmail, besides leading the way with "new approach blahblah", and many innovations like coloured conversations and advanced search options, what is the real business model behind it? Don't tell me that the adsense box on the right gets any click.
wasn't it that centralised TV Internet distribution doesn't really work? Even with more and more broadband availability, massive events like the recent world cup could not have been broadcasted over the net.
That's where the distributed storage idea steps in. If they succeeded in de-centralising movies and the kind, why not do it now for online TV, in the hope that the viral marketing style will automatically pop in.
Just think about the scale, and the massive investment they do. I hope it's gonna be big; otherwise it shouldn't be done at all!
Solar energy is yet expensive, but it's easy just to look at the effects of the crisis in middle east over the fuel price to understand that we need to start thinking differently when we're talking about energy consumption. Most of the house devices we have could work just slower and consume half of what they do now; but this is a lesson we were not yet trained to learn.
Our story resembles more and more with some Age of Empires game where we start on an island, burn out everything there is to burn over there, and then have no more resources to build transporting ships.
one point in nowadays market share expansion is to not only run a technically/usability fit product, but to find geeky ways to sneak it through the I'm-smarter-than-everybody-else crowd.
bottom line: despite bad quality of this particular marketing campaign; how helpless you are in telling your all geek friends about it, isn't it?
Secondly, what a great way to build social networking features into firefox! How about sharing bookmarks with your referred friends, and instead of the crappy google syncronizer, have a built-in tool to centralize user prefs and data?
I hate to live in a world where every human trait sounds like a disease. If we could cure our need for new, and turn boredom into ever-lasting happiness; how long before we find a cure at being human?
since there is no human web activity that cannot be simulated with a bot, it's normal to expect a huge percentage of bots operating on popular websites. Look at wikipedia user update statistics, same thing happens there.
I think any test can be criticised; main reasons are usually tainted environments or lack of tuning. What is interesting here is the conclusion, and since the article made it to the slashdot/* crowd, it might probably someday get to IT managers / decision makers
I wonder how this fast-food approach to hardware will behave over time. On one hand you have most of well established software companies that prefer stable (and expensive) hardware, but on the other hand you have this unique and very successful company that runs the "consume until it dies" pattern.
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How is Jigsaw's different from a huge business-cards trash-can? Is trash private? If not, why not wait and see what can they make out of that mess
Amazon made one step further and offers the tool to completely outsource and automate CAPTCHA breaking and mostly any kind of human-only online activity using: Amazon Mechanical Turk. One can outsource HITs to China or wherever for $0.005 per achieved task.
so far companies rely mainly on surveys for feedback regarding their products. One of the problem with surveys is that normal people tend to reject them, so then we end up trusting the feelings of a small survey-geek market; that are low paid to answer and give unrelevant feedback.
blog/online feedback research is different in that it focuses on what people consider is worth saying/writing about a certain product. The risk of bias is less probable, because of transparency.
adsense does this already. however in google we trust..
Is it meant to be a dynamic full featured rendering engine? Maybe it is, but AJAX should clean itself up from the kind of code that increases rendering time. Did anyone try using firefox's extensions on a slow linux box? Or even on Windows, I often have to start FF in safe mode just to get a clean start.
the famous google analytics also stuffs 18kb of Javascript crap to the client's computer (doesn't bother bandwidth on target site though), and forces a cookie rendering, all this done in client-side javascript on every single visited page. They got away with it because of nice free reports and GOOG's umbrella
as far I see it, wikipedia might be "too young" on the web spere, and has many things to learn from ./ and the like.
On the other side, wikipedia is the website that might be the closest thing to a collective human conscious that we have, and spam and vandalism is part of our nature, therefore will never go away for good.
Why not cut away the unreadable cvs-diff-like Recent Changes page and put instead an innovative topic map GUI that allows a quick overview of the recent changes and hot topic/trends? Then open this "map" to the regular users; so each can cross-check the recent changes so that vandalism/errors get cut away faster
In other news, the keyboard layout will never change. we're just too used to it, period. These are the lessons that we need to learn We might switch to a better system someday, like this one:
Jeff Han on TEDIt appears to be a lesson every of the Web 2.0 CEO must learn: pop up your human side, dress casual and don't show your wealth. And the best of all: make people say poor guy; manipulate people's sympathy (Rose's girlfriend sad story, sleepless etc), it will open all doors
I don't know what's worse: the naive ./ population or this whole website that smells miles away of amateurship and "not yet, bu I will/am going to" ?rap. I could bet that after the media wave goes away, there will be no pre-orders to fuel further development. This is actually sad news, since the idea of Jetpacks is in itself a very exciting one. If only inventors would learn how to present themselves..
great idea; but is it worth doing it? I think the same logic applies to the article's main point: is it worth writing notifiable stories? Carefully analyzing every word and every possible implications. Create outstanding writings in a culture that doesn't react at such? hey, we're living in the long-tail blogosphere junk, would a great article/idea get the proper attention?
probably as just many members of the techno-gizmo brain-washed generation, I can't follow the historical part of the article. However I can read the Times, and Michael Elliot and the others still create pieces worth mentioning. It's maybe a part of the "old media" that couldn't be yet digested by the junior?
Anyway, the raised points are valid and makes you wonder: what is it worth writing about? Seth Godin (video)gives no clues, but makes you think about it.
it'll be so simple to kick-out a grocery store i don't like: just spread a little of that ethylene gas around..
why not genetically engineer the fruit so that it turns black when it ripes? bananas already do.
seriously now, it's a nice project, but probably won't stand enough to become practical.
your explanations sound good, and if it were just R&D that could mature into some unknown-yet business things are indeed great. If google were a treee, besides getting more experience, the engineers get more and more work into various areas; therefore the branches of this tree tend to consume more of its initial power. Now we are whitnessing the tree growth, which is admirable, but later on it'll be the laws of nature speaking. Then it's the entire tree that either collapses or stagnates; unless bad branches get chopped away.
there simply has to be a time in google's future when they will stop throwing money at flashy rounded-corners web2.x apps, and try squeasing money out of their plethora of experiments.
In regards to gmail, besides leading the way with "new approach blahblah", and many innovations like coloured conversations and advanced search options, what is the real business model behind it? Don't tell me that the adsense box on the right gets any click.
wasn't it that centralised TV Internet distribution doesn't really work? Even with more and more broadband availability, massive events like the recent world cup could not have been broadcasted over the net.
That's where the distributed storage idea steps in. If they succeeded in de-centralising movies and the kind, why not do it now for online TV, in the hope that the viral marketing style will automatically pop in.
Just think about the scale, and the massive investment they do. I hope it's gonna be big; otherwise it shouldn't be done at all!
Solar energy is yet expensive, but it's easy just to look at the effects of the crisis in middle east over the fuel price to understand that we need to start thinking differently when we're talking about energy consumption. Most of the house devices we have could work just slower and consume half of what they do now; but this is a lesson we were not yet trained to learn.
Our story resembles more and more with some Age of Empires game where we start on an island, burn out everything there is to burn over there, and then have no more resources to build transporting ships.
one point in nowadays market share expansion is to not only run a technically/usability fit product, but to find geeky ways to sneak it through the I'm-smarter-than-everybody-else crowd.
bottom line: despite bad quality of this particular marketing campaign; how helpless you are in telling your all geek friends about it, isn't it?
Secondly, what a great way to build social networking features into firefox! How about sharing bookmarks with your referred friends, and instead of the crappy google syncronizer, have a built-in tool to centralize user prefs and data?
seems like a first case of positive usage of subliminal messages. I wonder though, who would accept his brain to be fried in such a way.
I hate to live in a world where every human trait sounds like a disease. If we could cure our need for new, and turn boredom into ever-lasting happiness; how long before we find a cure at being human?
since there is no human web activity that cannot be simulated with a bot, it's normal to expect a huge percentage of bots operating on popular websites. Look at wikipedia user update statistics, same thing happens there.
I think any test can be criticised; main reasons are usually tainted environments or lack of tuning. What is interesting here is the conclusion, and since the article made it to the slashdot/* crowd, it might probably someday get to IT managers / decision makers
I wonder how this fast-food approach to hardware will behave over time. On one hand you have most of well established software companies that prefer stable (and expensive) hardware, but on the other hand you have this unique and very successful company that runs the "consume until it dies" pattern.