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    Oct 07

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    Quotes of the Day - People who know their stuff

    posted 08:40 AM, 2007
    Three quotes from my feedreader this morning that struck a chord with me: Jason Fried waxes lyrical about a new UI change on the iPhone: Apple recently posted an iPhone update which, among other things, adds an “iTunes” icon to the iPhone home screen. I love where they put it. They didn’t put it where consistency tells you to put it. That would be on the left side. They put it where context tells you to put it. On the right side right above the iPod icon. Even the icon’s arrow points right down to...
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  • 03
    Sep 07

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    Cameron Adams says there are no social networks

    posted 08:49 AM, 2007
    Cameron Adams aka "The Man in Blue" has just made a brilliant post that sums up what the next generation of web applications (I refuse to call it web 3.0, but that is probably what it is going to be called) will be all about. Anyone building social media and applications should take the time to read it. There is only one social network. My social network. Flickr is part of my social network. Twitter is part of my social network. So is Facebook, Upcoming, MySpace, Last.fm, Corkd, Pownce, Del.icio...
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  • 03
    Apr 07

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    Last.fm - social networking for (almost) grown ups

    posted 11:37 AM, 2007
    I have been using Last.fm since October 2004 and over time it has grown into my favourite website ever. Last.fm utilises a plugin that reports the songs that you listen to to a central database that gradually builds up a profile of your music tastes. The geniuses at Last.fm explain it better here : Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler music engine. More than ten million times a day, Last.fm users "scrobble" their tracks to our servers, helping to collectively...
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  • 05
    Mar 07

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    Fidentia, Moneyweb and the people

    posted 05:41 AM, 2007
    Vincent Maher has a fascinating transcript up on his blog of an interview he did with Hilton Tarrent, the Moneyweb production editor. There are some interesting Q&A's regarding the redevelopment of Moneyweb and how they handle moderation of reader comments (always an issue on South African sites), but the really good stuff comes in when they start discussing the reader response to the recent Fidentia debacle, which Moneyweb has covered extensively : HT: The response by our readers has been unprecedented...
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