Monthly Archives: November 2007

What is a MashUp?

Posted on November 29, 2007 by

YDN went to Ireland for MashupCamp and came back with some hilarious footage. Rated PG:

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Oakland Trib’s Not-Just-A-Number improves on crime data visualization

Posted on November 20, 2007 by

OJR’s Jim Wayne dives into Oakland Tribune’s “Not Just A Number” web site. The service won the Service Journalism Award from ONA for an amazingly powerful view of crime data. The basic premise was to create a data visualization for … Continue reading →

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The problem with being popular (part 2)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by

One of the more interesting sciences, in my mind, is how information relevance is both determined, surfaced and then evolved. In Fred Wilson’s recent Cautionary Techmeme Tale he argues that making news popular takes away its social context and therefore … Continue reading →

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Data dynamics: How the rules of sharing are changing

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Today it’s easy to store and share my pictures, my favorite URLs, my thoughts and lots of other things online. There are a range of data repositories that allow me to do this kind of thing in different ways. What … Continue reading →

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Investing in video at YDN

Posted on November 6, 2007 by

We’ve been playing around with video as a communications mechanism on Yahoo! Developer Network for a while now. Our casual attempts to generate interest in Yahoo! technologies through interviews, screencasts, tech talks, etc. have worked really well. So, we hired … Continue reading →

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