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10 things I think about widgets
I’ve been toying with different ways of analogizing and thinking about widgets and have come up with the following: Widgets are legoizing(made-up word) the World Wide Web. Widgets turn the Web from a plain old toy robot into Voltron. Widgets heterogenize (I think this is a made-up word) the Web. Widgets compartmentalize the Web. Widgets are […]
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jiyanwei •
July 25, 2007
Trends
The articulation of power in social media
The New Communications Review just published a piece I authored a while back entitled, “The Articulation of Power in Social Media.” The piece is actually an adaptation of my dissertation, which I hope has actually becoming readable thanks to the work of Nina Shariff from v-Fluence. I am happy with this version of it, which […]
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jiyanwei •
June 20, 2007
Growth
37signals is a Hit
37signals is a small development shop based out of Chicago that a former v-Fluence colleague of mine told me about several years ago. They build collaborative software that places a premium on simplicity and usability – two of my favorite things. I was laying in bed leafing through Time Magazine last night when I stumbled […]
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jiyanwei •
June 1, 2007
Applications
Google News
I’ve been doing a bit of digging on how Google News ranks their results and figured that the World Intellectual Property Web site was as good a place to start as any. According to the patent description, “In accordance with one implementation consistent with the principles of the invention, a method for ranking results is […]
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jiyanwei •
May 15, 2007