"'social' games... have become all the rage on social networks such as Facebook. These are more about interaction than action: players either join their friends for an online game of poker or Scrabble, or to create and show off virtual pets, farms and mob families. Zynga, the market leader, which had 22m users in January, now has more than 170m..."
Paul Buchheit in Founders at Work (p. 162): "AdSense, the content-targeted ads, was actually something that, if I recall, I did on a Friday... Everyone hated it. Many people were kind of mad at me because they didn’t really go for the whole concept. It was something that had been talked about, and people agreed that it was not workable, it was not a good idea. So, to some extent, they were agitated that I wasted my time."
"It seems strange that the system will allow anonymous voting, but not anonymous comments. Allowing the admin to enable anonymous commenting would be very helpful." Yep. Maybe uservoice should listen to its own users..
Professors certainly matter to students. I had one [award-winning] Art History professor who was very accessible despite teaching popular 1st year classes with hundreds of students. I also had a stats prof from China who could barely speak English...
"The two African-American business leaders estimate their holdings -- from hotels to TV stations -- are worth $1 billion. One St. Louis hotel they own once barred black people."
"It is highly unlikely that whatever Jennings is suffering from now had anything to do with the flu vaccine she received in August. Unfortunately, this is not stopping irresponsible news coverage or exploitation by anti-vaccinationists... Jennings has now inserted herself in to the anti-vaccine movement, and is using her own case to 'warn about the dangers of vaccines.'"
"Pipe level neutrality is surely only one layer of a stack."
Is it? Am I missing something? Doesn't net neutrality just guarantee all TRAFFIC equal access at the network level? It doesn't guarantee all APPS equal access to the AppStore, any more than "highway neutrality" (equal access to the highway system) would allow Hyundai to sell its models at a Mercedes dealership...
Posession is 99/100ths of Internet Law. I think similar logic led to a ruling that Google did not infringe on plaintiff's IP because Google did not host the images displayed on its pages.
That is a great point.. imagine a prof issuing grades that way. I'd love to see someone with a 100-point system do some A/B testing to see how much recommendations degrade with a 5-point system.
How would that work, without access to server logs? There's no way for a 3rd party to track every request. One note: Alexa is getting better: "On April 16, 2008 many users reported dramatic shifts in their Alexa rankings. Alexa confirmed this later in the day with an announcement that they had released the new Alexa ranking system, claiming that they now take into account more data sources "beyond Alexa Toolbar users" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet]