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- http://www.lectr.com on 2009-11-18
- "90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) on 2009-10-14
- Anecdote: Anecdotes Archives on 2009-10-14
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How the Netflix Prize Was Won | Epicenter | Wired.com on 2009-09-22
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“Then there was a great insight among some of the teams — that if they combined their approaches, they actually got better. It was fairly unintuitive to many people [because you generally take the smartest two people and say 'come up with a solution']… when you get this combining of these algorithms in certain ways, it started out this ’second frenzy.’ In combination, the teams could get better and better and better.”
Ironically, the most outlying approaches — the ones farthest away from the mainstream way to solve a given problem — proved most helpful towards the end of the contest, as the teams neared the summit.
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- Cognitive Edge Methods on 2009-09-16
- Sense-Making Studies on 2009-09-16
- Working with Stories - Welcome on 2009-09-16
- Kurtz 2009d Collective Network Analysis.pdf (application/pdf Object) on 2009-09-16
- Web 2.0 Tools and Applications - Go2web20 on 2009-09-11
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trendwatching.com's September 2009 Trend Briefing covering "TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH" on 2009-09-11
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There are many more research studies, findings, dissertations, and so on that confirm the same fact: reviewing is the new advertising. This shouldn’t come as a surprise: just as with other trends, what’s unfolding now is a ‘forever need’ among consumers, one that's now being satisfied in a superior and previously unattainable fashion. In this case, the need is for trusted advice and recommendations—for feeling in control, for knowing the facts, for avoiding mistakes and disappointments—in order to make that perfect purchase. Which has become even more pressing as choice-overload continues: never before was there so much to choose from, in mature consumer societies, and thus such a need for reviews.
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Swimming With Stories
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This group augments the site http://swimmingwithstories.ning.com. This is a group for people on the listening side of story work: practitioners, consultants, researchers. Let's connect and trade ideas.
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