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Viral marketing and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
This is a follow up to my post of last week about getting noticed on the web. I mentioned in a comment to Alexis that I was interested in how sites, widgets, etc. gather interest – more or less “the...
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Ah, Timeshifting: From Betamax to Blockbuster (review)
Although he’s been too modest to mention it here, Josh’s first book comes out this month from MIT Press. Entitled From Betamax to Blockbuster, it charts the history of the video store, the dueling...
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NYPL on iTunes U.
New York Public Library has joined the universe of cultural and educational institutions making their content available on iTunes U. Take a look at our new site. Thanks to Brian Hurley, Don Mennerich,...
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I’m the only one!
When Tigger looks in the mirror and says “I’m the only one!” it is the most delightful moment. The humor turns on Tigger’s inability to see beyond his own self-centered world and the absolute charm of...
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NYPL Labs Needs a Redesign
I’ll say it: NYPL Labs (the site) is boring. I’ve always thought of this first iteration/design of the site as a 0.5 version, but it’s high time it moved to 1.0. Additionally, I thought Labs 1.0 would...
View ArticleLabs hosts OCLC Hackathon
Hackathon Join fellow coders, hackers and tech-enthusiasts for a two-day WorldCat Hackathon at the New York Public Library. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer’s Network and NYPL Labs of The New York...
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Drink and Sync
As advertised in my previous post – “untitled…”, the Labs group packed up their laptops and headed downtown to get some much needed “paperwork” out of the way. Mark did some homework and found a bar on...
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William Whyte and the goals of usability
Well, Barbara has outed me as a new employee, so it’s about time I start posting here! I am the new User Analyst for the Digital Experience Group, in which capacity I will be researching patterns of...
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NYPL joins Flickr Commons
So we’re off! On Monday night at around 6pm EST, the NYPL took its first steps into the Flickr Commons. About a year ago, Flickr launched the Commons to share and communally describe the public photo...
View ArticleYesterday at “Digital Dilemmas”
It’s not everyday that Cliff Lynch and Dan Cohen are in the same city, let alone at the same meeting. But yesterday New York was lucky enough to have both of them in town for a one day workshop Digital...
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