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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

Both Sides of the Table

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. I wrote the following update to my original answer to that question: Update: Social networking sites have an additional attribute in that they are communication vehicles as well as UGC sites.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. The web is constantly changing—ne. Entrepreneurism / Monetization collaboration, Side-Projects, web design. . Jason Lengstorf, Ennui Design. Lee Dale, Say Yeah!

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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