Archive for the yahoo Tag

Review: Search Engine Society by Alexander Halavais

Searching is the most popular activity online after email. It is the prism through which we experience a significant proportion of the world’s information – from news and information about our community, through to health information, commerce, and just about anything that has a presence online. Search Engine Society takes a critical look at search engines, how they work, the
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Is local search the chink in Google’s armour?

Interesting research from (ahem) Yahoo highlighted in Search Engine Land suggests that there are actually areas where users don’t go straight to Google – and makes encouraging reading for local news organisations.

Something for the Weekend #9: create a Facebook app (and widgets) with Dapper

Every week I come across some web-based service that makes it possible to do in a few clicks what a year ago would have required anything from a day of fiddling to months of developer time. Today’s tool is one of a number offered by Dapper, a company which aims to “make it easy and possible for anyone to extract
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Another Week in Online Journalism

Virtual intern Natalie Chillington rounds up last week’s online journalism-related news Google Google will announce a new metrics tool to measure web site audience, to rival current power players Nielsen and ComScore. Lots of debate over whether Google is making us stupid WordPress Puffbox.com announces it will be sponsoring WordCamp UK in July,bringing together around 100 devotees of WordPress in
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Patterns for designing a reputation system

Yahoo! have released a family of Reputation patterns: “They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.” Why is this important? The patterns are a wonderful resource for any news organisation looking to plan a community element in which
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A week in online journalism: roundup

Allison White has written this wonderful roundup of last week’s news for the OJB. But now she’s got a job. Persuade her to do this again in the comments… Google -Announced no desire to create content and will respect copyright. It added face-blur technology to its Street View mapping serivce to protect privacy. Also speculation from Groves Media on whether
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