Most Valuable Players

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Social Networking, UGC, Design

In an online community that depends on its users to create and share content, who are the most valuable ones? Is it the 10% who are completely addicted and constantly creating new content? Or is it the other 90% who consume the content and generate revenue? Or is just a chicken and egg problem that […]

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Facebook Memes

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Social Networking, UGC

Well, there’s no doubt about it. The Facebook App Super Craze is full steam ahead. From developers being paid to build them, to an entire freaking conference centered around the “social graph,” it seems like Facebook is the killer app and now we’re all struggling to build the killer app on top of it. Yes, […]

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User Ratings

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UGC, Recommendations

I totally agree with Joshua Porter about Amazon’s new review interface - it’s awesome. It provides even greater insight into user ratings by showing a breakdown of the number of people who selected each star rating. Not only is it awesome in and of itself, it also seems easily extensible to allow for a more […]

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User Generated Art

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UGC, Television, Design

I found myself on the MTV website a couple times in the past few weeks (doing research) (NOT watching episodes of The Hills! No…definetly not that.*) Anyway, I couldn’t help but notice the seemingly random, beautifully designed backgrounds, which all seamlessly incorporated the MTV logo into the upper left hand corner, each in its own […]

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The New Face of Tagging

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UGC

I’m probably the last person in the industry to have finally figured out what tagging is, but I’m not afraid to admit it. A couple months ago, we were discussing tagging trips within Yahoo! Trip Planner, specifically that the main reason for allowing people to tag trips was the ability to let other users search […]

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