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We are building U.[lik] to organize and personalized access to content. TV world is shifting, UGE (User Generated Entertainement -i.e quality stuff-) is growing steadily ….
Take a look at this video found on The BFF blog (visit his post if you want to digg). That’s how I see U.[lik] in the future (just swap building with piece of entertainement and imagine street has natural links and friends path) & Flickr will be so cool !

Vidéo desactiver merci de vous rendre sur http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2007/02/multi-touch-interfaces-one-year-later.html

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It’s a reminder !!! Listen to the Calacanis Cast beta 11 !!
Fred Stutzman has a great article titled : Digg the tyranny of the Minority. It’s quite interesting and he linked to an academic study that take time to extract contribution information out of digg. It’s a bit old (june 06) and Digg has made changes that should have shift a bit the power towards the majority. But in essence that’s the all problem of UGC … you need it to be personnalized !
I enclosed a video Clip from Royksopp call Remind me :

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Jason Calacanis has realased his last podcast : Calacanis Beta 11 it’s a must listen.

Control by Obscurification: The New Radical Opaqueness
Is Wikipedia really open? Why is digg moving away from transparency? In this podcast I look at the challenges two of the most important sites on the Internet are facing.

I’ve taken part in the discussion about the monetisation of wikipedia. This podcast is brilliant and Jason is perfectly right ! I am not going to sum up the podcast because if you’re not already a listener you should become one after that (godady/godady/godady ;-))

Free Speech for the internet …. and the Internet of Free Speech ! A clear HALL OF FAME

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After what is web 2 ?. Here is a documentary on the history of blogging… the blogumentary.
The video is a bit long (1h) but quite interesting and describes Samuel Pepys as the first blogger.
Thanks Thimothy for the video.

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Compete who has a tool to analyse traffic (as Alexa) and obviously it has some flaws (as they all do, except maybe  google). But their blog is fantastic because it’s content oriented and is filled with matches between various webistes in various verticals.

Benchmarking gives better results when you do that because all your trackings have identitic flaws , so it’s more quickly meaningfull.

They’ve just launched their index "The Compete Attention 200". Having an index is always good (but unfortunately is not compatible with personnalization).  And the picture on the left is a good proof of it. I’ve discovered it because I dind’t know about the # 29 = gaiaonline.com that gathers 0,18% of their global tracking.

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The best explanation ever of what is Web2.0. the video show you how we moved from an html world to  learning machine and dynamic web. it’s brilliant, it’s more valuable than a thousand words. It takes 4 minutes to watch it … and please blog about it.

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Yahoo just launched Brand Universe. Brand Universe is a Yahoo sub-domain website dedicated to a brand or assimilated with an aggregation of content from various Yahoo properties like delicious, Flickr …etc.

"Yahoo has already built a Brand Universe site around the Nintendo Wii,
and on Tuesday it announced six more, which will be centered on Harry
Potter; the video games Halo and the Sims; the television shows “The
Office” and “Lost”; and Transformers, the toy line, television show,
comic books and coming movies." NYT article

Techrunch as an article about it but the discussion as often is more interesting than the article. As Farhad puts it in the comment 32 :

Half the people here think it’s junk, the other half think it’s very smart.

it’s GREAT because –> it’s a one stop shop

it’s BAD because –> It’s a kind of spam using Yahoo power and it’s not attractive for user because it’s not relevant and for ads because it’s over branded

The best argument to defend the idea comes from  Thom kozik in comment 20, the  best attacks comes from comments 19 and 40.

Yahoo is clearly following the 3C rule : Content, Community, and Commerce but I think they miss the Google Rule : offer relevancy and make user life easier (and maybe faster).

The comment I enjoyed the most in the Techcrunch discussion is number 38 from Micki Krimmel

 The idea of a “brand universe” is not exactly compelling to me. I want
to create my own universe on the web, built around my preferences and
my social networks. The brands need to find authentic ways of fitting
into that.

I’ve said it before, I think Yahoo kicks Ass but on that one it’s not smart enough ! Don’t get me wrong, It will surely work but probably without delivering the best Internet ROI ever. Nevertheless I think it’s a pretty good example of what we try to achieve with U.[lik].

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