Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category
Academics Plan the Celectial Jukebox
0 Comments Published by admin July 29th, 2008 in Digital Music, Music Musings, Web 2.0, music lockers, social media.- A Comparison Of Signal-Based Music Recognitionmmendation to Genre Labels, Collaborative Filtering, Musicological Analysis, Human Recommendation, and Random Baseline Terence Magno and Carl Sable - Armonique : Experiments In Content-Based Similarity Retrieval Using Power-Law Melodic and Timbre Metrics Bill Manaris, Dwight Krehbiel, Patrick Roos and Thomas Zalonis - Moodswings : A Collaborative Game For Music Mood Label Collection Youngmoo Kim, Erik Schmidt and Lloyd Emelle - Oh Oh Oh Whoah! Towards Automatic Topic Detection In Song Lyrics Florian Kleedorfer, Peter Knees and Tim Pohle -Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements : Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values - Streamcatcher: Integrated Visualization Of Music Clips and Online Audio Streams Martin Gasser, Arthur Flexer and Gerhard Widmer If anyone has any of these papers I would love to see them or if your blogging from the conference could you please post or email me a link.
Mining the social web with WeFeelFine and Twistori
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello May 14th, 2008 in Innovation, Research, Web 2.0, social media, social networking.Back in 2006 I was working on a venture I called SocialNet (MySocialMap), based largely on research by dinah boyd and the Vister application she and Jeffery Heer put together. The idea was to build a icon based visual map of relationships across multiple social networks and layer this with a Taste Fabric styled [...]
Signs of Bubble 2.0: Tons of “me too” Black sites launching
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 22nd, 2008 in Conjecture, Start-ups, Tech Musings, Web 2.0, polemic, round-up, stupid ideas.There has been a ton of talk about Bubble 2.0, it started with Fred Wilson back in March of ‘05, was picked up by Vulture Central in Oct of the same year and has since since spawned everything from an official blog to a Wikipedia entry. However, the only sure sign that Bubble 2.0 is [...]
Social Lending: Poor Africans pay-up, fat Americans… not so much.
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 18th, 2008 in Conjecture, Web 2.0.Back in October of 2006 I joined Prosper as a lender, thinking it would be a great way to get a good return while doing some social good. In January of 2007 I started lending money on Kiva where the sole focus is on the social good created by these loans. At the time I [...]
Zopa’s coming, anyone want to borrow a few bucks?
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 30th, 2007 in Web 2.0, social media, zopa.Its been months since I last mentioned Zopa, the UK strain of the P2P lending bug which will hopefully wipe-out retail banking and credit cards. So it came as a bit of a shock when I got an email from them yesterday morning loudly proclaiming their imminent launch.
Well, we told you we were coming! At [...]
Zopa’s coming, anyone want to borrow a few bucks?
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 30th, 2007 in Web 2.0, social media, zopa.Its been months since I last mentioned Zopa, the UK strain of the P2P lending bug which will hopefully wipe-out retail banking and credit cards. So it came as a bit of a shock when I got an email from them yesterday morning loudly proclaiming their imminent launch.
Well, we told you we were coming! At [...]
ZapMeals: Closing the Gap Betwen Mouse and Tummy
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 22nd, 2007 in Foodie, Foolishness, Humor, Innovation, Start-ups, Web 2.0, great companies, hot betas, hot launches, social ideas.A great new Web 2.0 launch that plans on revolutionizing the restaurant and take-out industries. The start-up has an amazingly ambitious plan to help restaurants and home cooks monetize they excess capacity and inventory while delivering quality, low-cost food options. This is an amazing long-tail opportunity that I never even saw coming. Basically the company [...]
Stan Schroeder over at Frantic Industries did a more though and in-depth review of the WebOS options then the blurp i posted a few days ago If your interested in how folks are expanding the functionality and depth of web applications, this post is about as insightful as they come.
Stan Schroeder over at Frantic Industries did a more though and in-depth review of the WebOS options then the blurp i posted a few days ago If your interested in how folks are expanding the functionality and depth of web applications, this post is about as insightful as they come.
Andrew Keen’s Against You: Why Old Folks Hate Web 2.0
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in A-List Bloggers, A-List Blogs, Andrew Keen, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, a-listers, polemic, trend.Yesterday, ChangeThis posted an essay entitled “Against You: A manifesto in favor of audience“, by Andrew Keen. Keen is famous for two things, the 18 month flame-out of Audiocafe.com and the merciless taunting of Web 2.0 boosters. The essay is a jaded, bitter and over-simplified rehashing of Jaron Lanier’s more academic essay, Digital Moaism. [...]
