The machine is us/ing us?
By admin | May 28, 2007
Some questions about this new era…
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Web 2.0 review
By admin | May 28, 2007
All about web 2.0 in a youtube video.
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An interesting article published on KillerStartups.com
By admin | May 19, 2007
Siri published this article on killerstartups (View It):
“Thagoo’s search engine operates by pulling results from social bookmarks. With your Google-type search engines, results are collected based on rates of high frequency distribution, which means relevancy may be substituted for high ranking algorithms. Basically, for the user this means wading through pages and pages of information without finding pertinent results. Thagoo, through its use of social tags, brings in a human element; results are retrieved according to what actual users have determined to contain the best results. The site uses bookmarks from Blinklist, BlueDot, Mister Wong, Raw Sugar, Furl and Netvouz among others. Each search also generates an RSS which you can subscribe to for further information.
Why it might be a killer:
Thagoo’s search engine provides results that are more relevant because they’re based on people’s interests. It allows the people to decide what’s relevant and what’s not.
Some questions:
Will Thagoo expand to include other bookmarking sites”
… and now we answer your question: Of course!, Our team is working on it, they are researching other social bookmarking sites that can be possible thagoo sources.
Thanks Siri for your comments.
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The Wisdom Of Crowds that organizes the Web
By admin | April 28, 2007
Next fragment was taken from an article published by Michael Pick on masternewmedia’s Blog:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/12/01/social_bookmarking_services_and_tools.htm
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Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0’s success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds.
Photo credit: Maarten Janssen
The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of negotiating by themselves. When you start to look for information online, very often the first place you turn to are the search engines to bring home web pages that will fit what you’re looking for.
Search engines, however, are not always the best of even the most efficient way of finding great online content. Anyone that has ever waded through page after page of Google results hoping that they have hit on that elusive keyword can vouch for that.
Social bookmarking brings to the equation something that search engines can’t compete with - the human touch. Just as the internet has millions of pages, so it also has millions of users, and if even a fraction of those users share the sites they’ve found interesting, useful or just plain bizarre with each other, there is suddenly a vast resource for anyone searching the web to tap into.
Social bookmarking services make this possible, giving users the opportunity to quickly and easily ”tag” web pages, effectively bookmarking them as they would for themselves, but sharing them through centralized services, and leaving useful annotations and notes for other users to come across. As sites are tagged, over time vast collections of these user generated tags are gathered together, and can then be searched by anyone making use of the social bookmarking services.
As an example, should you wish to find some great content on the subject of ”online collaboration” you could tap this term into a social bookmarking search, and would then be given all of the latest pages tagged under this term by hundreds of thousands of users across the web. You are tapping directly into the web browsing experience of other people, and people more than likely sharing interests with you, rather than relying on a machine to pick out keywords from online fields of text.
In this mini-guide to social bookmarking I take a look at what makes social bookmarking a unique and effective way to source information and find sites that are likely to be of interest to you, whether personally or as an independent publisher in your own right. I compare the key services currently out there making social bookmarking something that anyone can leverage in their navigation of the web.
In Conclusion
The social bookmarking site or sites of most interest to you will depend largely on how you plan to use them, and your personal tastes in their presentation and bookmarking styles.
As Web 2.0 evolves into the semantic web, social bookmarking leads the way in bringing us closer to a meaningful and personal search experience, wrought through unobtrusive online collaboration and the simple sharing of opinions and information that has been with us since the dawn of civilization.
The wisdom of crowds is proving its worth on a daily basis as information pooling and online collaboration replace the old order of information being handed down from above. As the web is transformed by its millions of users, each drop in the ocean of social bookmarking adds to the ease with which others can navigate their path through the wider ocean of content.
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The Long Tail
By admin | April 28, 2007
Do you know the long-tail?
Probably not, perhaps very little.
What is the long-tail?
The long tail is the colloquial name for a long-known feature of statistical distributions (Zipf, Power laws, Pareto distributions and/or general Lévy distributions). The feature is also known as heavy tails, power-law tails, or Pareto tails. Such distributions resemble the accompanying graph.
The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was, according to Chris Anderson, first coined by himself. The concept drew in part from an influential February 2003 essay by Clay Shirky, “Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality” that noted that a relative handful of weblogs have many links going into them but “the long tail” of millions of weblogs may have only a handful of links going into them. Beginning in a series of speeches in early 2004 and culminating with the publication of a Wired magazine article in October 2004, Anderson described the effects of the long tail on current and future business models. Anderson later extended it into the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006).
In these distributions a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually “tails off.” In many cases the infrequent or low-amplitude events—the long tail.
The Long Tail. (2007, April 27). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:28, April 28, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Long_Tail&oldid=126475982
Accessing to the long tail
In the web, most popular search engine’s results comes from a high-frequency distribution area, this happens because the long tail is not relevant for ranking algorithms used by those search engines.
The central dogma is the relevancy problem which requires best ranking algorithms. Being able to retrieve highly relevant results from the long-tail can only be accomplished by a democratic system where people can vote and determine where the best information is.
Now, let’s think a little….
…. those votes already exists: Social Bookmarks!
With thagoo you’ll have access to real most popular web sites, including the long tail.
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