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Yearly Archives: 2009
Links for 2009 03 07
- Yes, We Plan: How Altruism and Advertising Could Change the World | Epicenter from Wired.com
"The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action". Unlaunched site, IfWeRantheWorld.com.
Fanaticism
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905)
My chapter in “Computing with Social Trust”
The book “Computing with Social Trust” is out. In it you can find a chapter by Paolo Avesani and myself about my PhD work on Trust in Recommender Systems. You can download my chapter or buy the dead-tree book from Amazon. Following you can find the Table of contents. Enjoy!
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Links for 2009 02 11
- Emily Chang – eHub: Getting Things Done with Twitter
Amazing list of creative use of Twitter (for payments, for events, for reading lists, for travel plans, …) - Top social networks ordered by time spent per user per month (data from 2007!)
The first is gaiaonline.com, followed by bebo, orkut, myspace, facebook.
Your users have something to tell you
Your users have something to tell you. If you don’t give them a way to communicate, they will find one.
[from the presentation “Designing and Enabling Communities” by Christina Wodtke of PublicSquare]
Are you too old for Facebook?
Interesting pie graphs highlighting demographic differences between Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and LinkedIn in terms of key demographics (gender and age).
From BuzzFeed.
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Links for 2009 02 09
- Portals and KM: Growing Collection of Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories
Not recent (2007!) but useful list! - Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Great blog about enterprise2.0
Jane Goodall in Trento on February 27th
Primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall will be in Trento on February 27th for a public speaking titled “Reasons for hope”. The event is part of Darwin Year 2009 (check the entire program, with events from January up to June).
If you don’t know who Jane Goodall is, you can check her Wikipedia page or watch the video of her talk at TED embedded below (suggestion: watch at least the first 30 seconds!)
Her description from TED says:
Jane Goodall, dubbed by her biographer “the woman who redefined man,” has changed our perceptions of primates, people, and the connection between the two. Over the past 45 years, Goodall herself has also evolved — from steadfast scientist to passionate conservationist and humanitarian.
Kiva, the distributed micro loan platform, just released a new API, and social network analysis sprang up
Via Ajaxian I come to know that Kiva, the distributed micro loan platform, has just released a new developer API that gives third parties access to create innovative applications on top of the platform! I’m investing 100 dollars in Kiva since some years (my Kiva lender profile) and I found it a neat idea! If you don’t know what Kiva is, check this video about Kiva, there is also a Kiva Facebook application.
And the amazing guys behind “How We Know Us – Investigating, discussing, and measuring social capital” already started poking at the data available with the hypothesis network analysis will be able to help predict rates of return! Check
the image of the complete(?) network of relationships between the recipients and the lenders and the partners.
Go play with the new KIVA API!