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Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers

In: meta-tagging the universe

14 Feb 2004

NYT: "Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company’s Canadian site had suddenly revealed the identities of thousands of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the United States site under signatures like “a reader from New York.” The weeklong glitch, which Amazon fixed after outed reviewers complained, provided a rare [...]

How to scale media projects beyond static galleries?

In: digital lifestyle|living worldwide|maps & territories|meta-tagging the universe|user experience

13 Feb 2004

Haiko Hebig: Industrial Night and Magic, where headed? "Now that I took Gigabytes of photos in the abandoned and torn down steel mills and other former sites of heavy industries here in Dortmund and surrounding cities, comes up the question: how to organize, how to present them? [...] I want to throw all the content [...]

Can You Trust Metatagged Trust?

In: meta-tagging the universe

30 Jan 2004

AuctionBytes: eBay Tinkers with a Delicate Feedback System "Beginning February 9th, eBay will be adding a new "Mutual Feedback Withdrawal" policy, which has some users wondering about the usefulness of eBay’s feedback system, which is already widely criticized. The policy enables two trading partners, who have already agreed, to withdraw their feedback. Withdrawn feedback will [...]

Progress on the mp3 Metatagging Front

In: cool tools|meta-tagging the universe|music

8 Dec 2003

I’ve mentioned Helium a couple of times as my favorite music management app. It still has a few flaws but the developers are working on it: BPM automatic calculation (great for Tracktor DJs, this feature doesn’t work well right now) External data queries to retrieve artist info, style, tone and more from Allmusic.com and other [...]

Google, Microsoft Search the Local Web

In: maps & territories|meta-tagging the universe|search engines

24 Sep 2003

Microsoft Research: "The WWMX, short for the World-Wide Media eXchange, is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Our goal is to explore what we can do with a gazillion photos on a single database indexed by their location." Google Labs Search by Location.

Notes on Photoshop Album

In: cool tools|meta-tagging the universe

24 Sep 2003

Michael Sippey: "Where it shines, though, is its application and use of photo metadata. Adding categorization to photos is a drag-and-drop action, or a right-click action, or a menu-driven keyboard aware action — on a single photo or multiple photos at once. Recognizing that facial recognition software hasn’t quite migrated to the desktop, Adobe has [...]

On Search: Metadata

In: meta-tagging the universe|search engines

30 Jul 2003

Tim Bray: "Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at source has been generally large enough to outweigh the (potentially huge) benefits from collecting it. But I for one am not ready to give up on this approach. There are, after all, domains where metadata is at the core of the business proposition, and the process [...]

Easy New topics

In: meta-tagging the universe|web apps

21 Apr 2003

Sifry’s Alerts: "Last week, Paolo Valdermarin and Matt Mower released their specification of Easy News Topics 1.0 (ENT), which is designed as an RSS 2.0 module that can add topic and categorization information to an RSS feed. The good news: As a format, ENT is easy to understand, easy for application developers to implement, and [...]

Meta Meta

In: fun|meta-tagging the universe

8 Jan 2003

Hello World. Meta [Google - AllTheWeb - Daypop - Stock Quote - Stock Chart - News - Comments - Trackback - Referrers - Sources - More Like This - More Not Like This - Dictionary definition - Warchalk] Categories [useless - redundant - satire] Tools [Donate - Send to a Friend - Contact Us - [...]

A New Kind of Productivity Application

In: digital lifestyle|meta-tagging the universe|software

27 Nov 2002

O’Reilly: "One of the off-the-cuff observations I made in the variant of my talk Watching the Alpha Geeks that I delivered at the O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference was that the iApps represent a new kind of productivity application. [...] Apple knows that the new frontier of productivity is not a new spreadsheet, word processor, [...]


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