It's worth a looksee. Lots of good stuff. I particularly like this part:
Now transpose people for web pages, and you see how the race for the next great search algorithm has less to do with organizing static HTML content than with coordinating the constantly changing expressions of millions of distributed people.
And this, which relates to FM:
The question is, then, whether a PeopleRank algorithm that uses community driven tags as its input, could do to About.com, Gawker Media, and Weblogs what Google did to Alta Vista, namely deliver a superior end-user experience that requires only incremental server bandwidth to scale.
Thanks, Fred.
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You are in part dealing with adding functionality to a home page. How do you add that functionality without driving the user nuts.
Newsfeeds, weather, the time, access to site stats. The person who can provide statistics for an entire site from one installation could clean up. Really, what coders and script monkeys need to do is automate the process, for the way it is now can get damn frustrating for people.
Maybe an installer much as Mac software comes with. One that with some data from the end user can install and configure what needs to be installed and configured wherever it needs to be installed and configured.
On the matter of determining traffic, reliable stats would help. Excluding bot visits from totals would certainly help, since bots are not, and at our stage of technological development cannot be potential customers.
This needs more thought. Any ideas?
Posted on April 19, 2005 10:42