LinkedIn Rolls Out Enhanced Groups Features Jason Kincaid Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:16 -0000
Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn's recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely.
Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some of these concerns. Among the new features are a centralized hub page for every group, where group members can come together and converse with each other in one place. The release also introduces enhanced group and user management features, including a searchable roster. Scribd Finally Starts A New Chapter With A Redesign Jason Kincaid Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:52:04 -0000
Scribd, the popular document sharing hub, has finally rolled out a much-needed redesign. The site has long been hampered by a messy homepage that wasn't attractive for first-time visitors, displaying a list of its top features in lieu of a YouTube-esque stream of featured documents. The old design made it clear that Scribd worked well as a utility, but didn't make it attractive as a destination site. Now, the new site highlights a sampling of its top documents and includes a number of UX changes that Scribd hopes will remedy this issue.
The Best of Android: Final Challenge Winners Announced Mark Hendrickson Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:34:29 -0000
Last May, Google announced the first set of winners in its two-part contest called Android Challenge, which is meant to kick-start the creation of 3rd-party applications for its nascent mobile platform by enticing developers with a total of $10 million in awards.
Today, Google is releasing the names of its second set of winners, 10 of which receive $275,000 and 10 of which receive $100,000. Ashton Kutcher Is Pretty Excited To Launch Blah Girls At TechCrunch50 Michael Arrington Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:17:03 -0000 TechCrunch50 is just a week and a half away. The list of presenting companies is kept strictly confidential until the day of the event to ensure maximum audience attention. But we're making one exception this year. Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's Katalyst Media will be launching Blah Girls, one of his new interactive online video products, at TechCrunch50.
Ashton recorded an intro video for Blah Girls letting us know how excited he is about all of the confidentiality and rehearsal requirements around the event.
Yahoo Shuts Down Mash, 0-4 On Social Networking Michael Arrington Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:47:42 -0000 In an email to users today, Yahoo announced that its year old social network Yahoo Mash will be shutting down on September 29. This was Yahoo's fourth serious attempt at getting a foothold in social networking after Yahoo 360 and failed acquisition attempts of Facebook and Bebo. Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate’s Traffic Data? Jason Kincaid Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:55:43 -0000
Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate's homepage be used to gauge who will win this year's election? Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results don't seem to shed much light on the forthcoming election's outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends.
Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site's total traffic, and the the overall likelihood that a user in the state will visit the candidate's site (called the Representation index). If either metric is applicable to the election, it will be Representation Index, which indicates the candidate's popularity on a per-state basis and isn't affected by the state's population.
Net Valley - Explores the history of the Internet. Includes information on significant companies and Silicon Valley history.
80s BBS - Yahoo group dedicated to the preservation of the history of the online world in the days before the Web (pre-1990). Text files, old buffer dumps, BBS discussions, buffers, or anything related to this era is welcome.
Meta Description: [ 80sBBS: Online in the 1980s - 80s BBS Scene - Help preserve an era - Text Files + GFiles + Buffers + BBS Lists ]
A Brief History of the Internet - An anecdotal history by Walt Howe of the people and communities that brought about the Internet and the Web. Includes a glossary of terms.
Meta Description: [ Anecdotal Internet History showing the increasing development of friendly utilities, menus, and search engines driven by rapid expansion and the demand for convenience and ease of use by less sophisticated users, businesses, and communities of interest. ]
404A Brief History of the Internet - Microsoft explains the origins of the web in ArpaNet, the contribution of Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium and domain names.
A Tour of the Worm - Donn Seeley tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Technical Conference, San Diego, California, January 1989.
Brief History of the Internet - Ross Shannon provides an overview of the Internet's origins, from ARPANET and email to the Web. Includes a breakdown of the components that make up the Internet.
Community Memory - Archive of postings to this discussion list dedicated to the history of The Internet.
From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam - Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.
Paul Graham - What the Bubble Got Right - Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it.
SearchEngineWatch: Search Engine Birthdays - It's been a little more than ten years ago that the first web search engines were born. Chris Sherman charts the dates starting with WWW Wanderer in 1993.
Meta Description: [ Google is only five, and even online veterans like Yahoo! and AltaVista are comparative toddlers. In fact, it's only been a little more than ten years ago that the first web search engines were born. ]
The History of 404 - The story behind HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found, and Room 404 at CERN. Wait for the real page to load.
The World Wide Web History Project - A collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking.
Meta Description: [ The World Wide Web History Center is a collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web. ]
World Wide Web Journal - Published from the winter of 1996 thru the fall of 1997. All issues online, including the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings.
Meta Description: [ W3J.Com provides resources and materials to support corporate and IT governance. ]
World-Wide Web: Origins And Beyond - Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu.
Meta Description: [ This often-sited article discusses the history and the structure of the Web, and offers a peak at the future of information sharing. ]
Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web - Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris.
Meta Description: [ Yahoo!'s picks of the top 100 moments from the first 10 years of the Internet. Inspired by 10x10 by Jonathan Harris. ]
