"Facebook has just released a new widget that allows brands and businesses to share status updates from their Facebook Page - and get new Facebook fans - on any website."
- Ian Wilker
WNCW played something today from Vieux Farka Toure (son of legendary Ali) that raised goosebumps. Listen: http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/
"Reputation systems have driven the entire business at eBay.com, much of the business at Amazon.com, drives activity at Digg.com, powers the moderation system at Slashdot, etc…and yet for all the millions of words written about web design very few of them have been dedicated to this type of software."
- Ian Wilker
Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part II) - Bokardo - http://bokardo.com/archive...
"Bryce digs deeper into the strategic decisions around patterns, like how to determine which pattern to use and who is using reputation patterns best."
- Ian Wilker
"90-9-1" Rule for Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."
- Ian Wilker