Stuart Robinson’s Weblog

Great visualization from Social Software Building Blocks of the variables available to you when designing social interactions.

Weight user tags by how much attention the user pays to the content, so if you listen to a song a lot, your tag is weighted more heavily. If you listen to Paris Hilton you have more of a say on what shows up on her tag cloud.

Attention data is a good filter for user generated content.

FOWA 07: Matthew Ogle & Anil Bawa Cavia - Lessons from the Building of the Worlds Largest Social Music Platform Last.fm. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos

Interesting idea among a bunch of random predictions for the coming year:

Someone will write a Wordpress plug-in to automatically disable comments if the referrer is Digg or Slashdot.

Tech and Blogging Predictions for 2007 « //engtech

Visitors invading a community, and commenting with no sense of context is a growing problem, and this would greatly limit it. It’s not solidly secure of course, but would be enough of a deterrent to be useful. Reminds me of metafilter, whose daily-new-membership-quota kind of provides this feature, and additionally slows membership growth to a integratable rate.