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November 01 2007
Ok. So perhaps this is not a conspiracy because it's out in the open, but ebay's role in keeping feedback ratings artificially high is something worth discussing. My argument is not about retaliatory feedback, but let's discuss that briefly. Anyone... read moreQuechup: Another Social Network Enemy!
September 21 2007
A while back, I named Gazzag.com my enemy for spamming people to join their social network. They have a new enemy partner: Quechup.com Quechup allows users to import contacts from their email accounts (such as Gmail). The unsuspecting user, provides... read moreJuly 10 2007
The central idea of the Semantic Web is to extend the current human-readable web by encoding some of the semantics of resources in a machine-processable form. Moving beyond syntax opens the door to more advanced applications and functionality on the... read moreThe 2007 Unofficial FOAF Challenge
December 15 2006
Win Fabulous Prizes!* Background In my never-ending search to catalog all the web's social networks, I have discovered a bunch of blogging sites based on the LiveJournal code. These include DeadJournal, GreatestJournal, and InsaneJournal.com to name a few. This is... read moreAmazon Tagging Revisited: The mTurk Check
December 06 2006
About a year ago I wrote a blog post called Tagging Hall of Shame: Amazon. It pointed out that tagging books as "good" and "for dad" was not very helpful. Well I am pretty impressed at this new step Amazon... read moreNovember 04 2006
As part of my ongoing research into social networks, I sign up at pretty much every site I come across. Today, I came across Gazzag.com. As part of the sign up process, they offered to import all my contacts from... read more
