links for 2007-04-27
April 26, 2007
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UGC to benefit business
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April 26, 2007
User Generated Content - A boy and his dad.
April 23, 2007
As a father of 3 young boys, I’m constantly having to find new ways to amuse them. The latest trend making stuff out of paper. You would not believe how many airplanes I’m building these days. I’ve built some of the coolest airplanes for my kids, all in the name of fun for the kids, and I admit, myself.
A much more technical dad shared an experience with his own son. He described how on Saturday’s the two go out for a special breakfast at a local restaurant. During these outings, his 4 year old son draws battle scenes on the back of the paper place-mat. His son recently asked if he could make a video game out of the drawing - His answer, of course, was yes. Here’s the dad and son’s place-mat game. And my kids think I’m great? haha
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Contextual Advertising in Second Life
April 21, 2007
If you’re familiar with Second Life, then you have no doubt experienced the virtual advertising billboards that companies are utilizing to market to Second Life citizens. While the presence of these billboards may lead to increased conversions, the issue with this method of advertising is the relevance to any of the viewers of the ad.
ContextAds is a company that delivers relevant advertisements to Second Life avatars by listening to the avatar conversations around ContextAds billboards and displaying relevant advertisements based on certain keywords it discovers during conversations.
So this is how I envision the ContextAds system. I’m flying around happily in Second Life and I look down to see this hot little avatar, we’ll call Cindyrella Tenk, and I start chatting with her (is not usual Second life protocol as I’ve been explained by one avatar that you can’t just walk up to anyone and start chatting, would you do that in real life? I explained that (1) I wouldn’t be altering my appearance in public or flying from location to location either. We’ll leave Second Life suggested behavior for another post)…I’ve typed things like the snow was awesome and I notice that the billboard above us displays a Snow Summit advertisement. I then tell her I’m looking for a new house and the billboard shows a new development of an area where I live. etc. etc.
I have to admit, this method of advertising seems pretty cool, but very eerily freaky at the same time. It’s like “whoa…the sign can hear me”. I compare it to the first time I used Google search and was spelling something incorrect “Did you mean, blah blah blah?” Freaky! I guess it’s better than some of the Google Ads that I’ve seen that decide to show everything “Garcia” related since my last name is Garcia. Ya, I was really looking for Garcia Tires, and Garcia Landscaping.
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links for 2007-04-21
April 20, 2007
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Music Collaboration Site
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Online Music Collaboration
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Online Music collaboration
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Kompoz Podcast
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Rick Garcia del.icio.us links for 4-19-2007
April 19, 2007
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Thoughts on the Virginia Tech Shootings
April 17, 2007
Not to sound cold, but I intend to keep this post short and simple for personal reasons.
It’s a sad thing that happened at Virgina Tech. I feel bad for all involved, especially the students that got shot, their friends and family.
Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube are social media outlets that traditional media stated as tools that were used to cover the shootings, for VT students to let friends and family know they were ok, and to pay tribute to those who have fallen.
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Drupal - The learning Process
April 16, 2007
After researching many of the alternatives to building the Macabbi Social Network I’ve decided on trying my hand at Drupal. I’m sure there will be people saying use Ning, code in PHP, use onesite, etc…..IT AINT HAPENNING. The reasons are complex but here is an extremely simplified version.
1. The developers that specialize in creating custom social networks are too expensive.
2. I don’t have any of my MIT software development friends knocking on my door for this project.
3. I want to learn something new and fun.
4. All the other “instant social network” alternatives don’t do what we want.
Since I don’t have a background in development other than education-wise, it should be an interesting project. I’ll document the process as best I can I stumble through it. Hopefully the Drupal experiment goes well so that we don’t have to decide on a different system for our other much more interesting concept. Stay tuned.
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The Real Usefulness of Google Maps
April 13, 2007
I got a kick out of this:
Go to google maps
Hit Get directions
Type in the first box:New York City
Type in the second box:BerlinFirst, look at how long it will take you to get there.
Second, look at line 23.
CLICK
LOL
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The Algorithm Constantly Finds Jesus
April 11, 2007
From Valleywag
Huh?
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