Bradley Horowitz @ FOWA Feb 07

“User” Rehab:A story of redemption

Bradley Horowitz

[email protected] Advanced Development Division

Yahoo!, Inc.Q1 2007

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User - Wiktionary Defn.

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Turning “users” into People…

1 creators

10 synthesizers

100 consumers

2 creators

4 synthesizers

8 consumers

Moving beyond “users”…

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Web 2.0 Community Dynamics

100% creators

100% synthesizers

100% consumers

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Happenstance artistes…

Anyone with a ________ is now a ________

keyboardcamera

iPodbrowser

authorphotographerdeejaypublisher

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Where is this leading?

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Turning “users” into Editors

Interestingness…

• Based on implicit,organic measures

• Retroactive

• Less susceptibleto “gaming” oragendas

• Works!

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Turning “users” into Taggers

Another form is "throw-ups" which are normallyquickly done piecesfeaturing very simplepieces using few colors,sacrificing aesthetics forspeed. - wikipedia

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Tagging

People Organized Content

Content is tagged, described, organized, discovered, etc. not by “editors” but by the“users” themselves.

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A Digression:Computer Vision is hard

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FOWALONDON07

Phone can provide context

- time- place (GPS, CPT)- identity- copresence (Bluetooth)- crowd effects- ancillary database

@yahoo.com?

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Emergent knowledge

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Mental maps: TagMaps

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Jaguar Clusters

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Love Clusters

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Lotsa tags!

• Low barriers to participation

• Messy / easy at data entry time… but lots of data helps to make sense of it later

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Turning “users” into neighbors

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Publisher’s reln. to her audience

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Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"70.87.56.46 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:18:21 -0800] "GET /blog/?p=24 HTTP/1.1" 200 8882 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)"61.17.229.126 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:19:08 -0800] "POST /blog/wp-trackback.php?p=24 HTTP/1.1" 200 94 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)"72.14.199.3 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:20:17 -0800] "GET /blog/?feed=rss HTTP/1.1" 200 4881 "-" "Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)"72.14.199.8 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:20:38 -0800] "GET /blog/?feed=atom HTTP/1.1" 200 50713 "-" "Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html)"38.102.128.140 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:21:50 -0800] "GET /blog/?feed=rss2&p=5 HTTP/1.1" 200 6939 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; Rojo 1.0;http://www.rojo.com/corporate/help/agg/; Aggregating on behalf of 1 subscriber(s) online at http://www.rojo.com/?feed-id=2587649) Gecko/20021130"64.78.155.100 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:23:03 -0800] "GET /blog/?feed=rss2 HTTP/1.1" 200 50314 "-" "NewsGatorOnline/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; 4 subscribers)"65.55.208.92 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:23:37 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 50 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"65.55.208.92 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:23:38 -0800] "GET /blog/?cat=5 HTTP/1.0" 200 22429 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"72.237.73.67 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:23:50 -0800] "GET /blog/?p=5 HTTP/1.1" 200 110865 "-" "Mozilla/5.0"69.180.26.237 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:25:50 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://my.yahoo.com/p/d.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204Firefox/2.0.0.1"74.6.74.226 - - [25/Jan/2007:04:27:50 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 50 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! 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Oh! I got a visit from 18.85.225.206 at 12:31 today!

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Publisher’s reln. to her audience

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Instant community

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Site owner owns the community

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MyBlogLog connects people wherethey are, all over the web

Since I joined MyBlogLog last month, Ihave met some really incredible people

whom I doubt I would have metotherwise.

Reason No. 38 Why I’m Becoming A Huge “MyBlogLog” Fanhttp://abowlofstupid.com/arts-entertainment/reason-no-38-why-im-becoming-a-huge-mybloglog-fan

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/01/23/problogger-mybloglog/

I’d not done anything to build my‘community’ except happen to be amember - but now this site has 539

‘members’!

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Turning the lights on…

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MyBlogLog integration

Add this single line of javascript to a web page…

• <script type="text/javascript"src="http://pub.mybloglog.com/comm2.php?mblID=2006111120453914&c_width=180&c_sn_opt=y&c_rows=5&c_img_size=f&c_heading_text=Recent+Readers&c_color_heading_bg=005A94&c_color_heading=ffffff&c_color_link_bg=E3E3E3&c_color_link=005A94&c_color_bottom_bg=005A94"></script>

< don’t blink! >

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Pipes: Rewire the Web

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Pushing HTML to the “users”

Flickr

New YorkTimes

<HTML><HEAD>…</BODY></HTML>

<HTML><HEAD>…</BODY></HTML>

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Mashup’s for the masses: RSS!

Flickr

New YorkTimes

<RSS version=“2.0”></RSS>

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A real-world task

Find an apartment for rent walking distance from adaycare center…

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Give the “users” (crack) Pipes!

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Apartments Near Something

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Sampling v. Synthesizing

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, orsample, of one sound recording and reusing it as

an instrument or element of a new recording.

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Web 2.0 Community Dynamics

100% creators

100% synthesizers

100% consumers

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Thank You!

Bradley Horowitz

VP of ADD

Yahoo, Inc.

[email protected]

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