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Monthly Archives: February 2009

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Social Search Researchers on Twitter

Feb. 13, 2009 /Matter

A few days ago, I started passing around a sign-up form to help people interested in topics relating to Social Search find each other on Twitter.  The great thing about having millions of people on Twitter now is that you…

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Smartsheet Automating Data Collection Through Mechanical Turk

Feb. 12, 2009 /Matter

Smartsheet has just launched their “Smartsourcing” product which allows you to automatically build data-collection tasks in a “Smartsheet” (a spreadsheet) and outsource them as HIT’s on Mechanical Turk.  I just watched the demo video over at Smartsheet, and I have…

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I Know Where You Were Last Summer

Feb. 9, 2009 /Mobile

As I eagerly wait for Google’s Latitude to drop on to the iPhone app store, I’ve had the opportunity to try out the web interface in the form of the Latitude iGoogle gadget. Immediately, I was struck by how similar…