baby steps towards UGC. the T&C are funny: submissions have to be accurate and relevant
Tag: usergeneratedcontent
Artisanal economy
When most things that you want to buy – especially for someone else – seem to cost nothing and are all the same and made in China – what are you going to do? etsy.
Restrictive Yelp API
if Yelp is really as good as it thinks it is, it wouldn’t need to put limits on the competition. After all, Google’s Maps API, the Flickr API and 10s of other similar APIs contain no such restrictions.
such insecurity
Collaborative Mapping business models
Let’s start by fast forwarding to a future where we have economically successful collaborative maps. Then from there we can look back and see how we might get there, what tipping points would be involved. it is possible to decouple the function of ‘ownership’ of a set of geospatial data from the functions that are needed for its upkeep. Indeed such a decoupling could easily lead to a more efficient market around the upkeep of the data. One thing we neglected to mention as well is that a collaborative map opens up the potential for non ‘expert’ contributors to do valuable work, as long as the structure is set up to minimize vandalism and the like.
Collaborative Mapping Redux
many NGO just want an interface for users to throw some information on the map – like Google Earth. But they don’t want to be passing KML files all around. they need a ‘cvs for the geospatial web’.
The human sensor web
Getting location-aware mobile devices to contribute data to such networks means less work for humans, as there is no need to manually georeference the data. The easiest milestone on this road (pardon the pun) is live traffic reporting, as it doesn’t require the active participation of a human beyond driving. In the future, if TomsTom get the ability to transmit live telemetrics on busy highways via wireless data networks, you might start saving lives if a traffic accident in dense fog involving a TomTom-equipped car is reported in time to those following soon after.
a new page of headmap is turned
Amateur Mapmaking
On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker. With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos. In the process, they are reshaping the world of mapmaking and collectively creating a new kind of atlas that is likely to be both richer and messier than any other.
mymaps represents. front page, bitchez
UGC Newspapers
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It used to read, ‘Be a Citizen Journalist’ And no one ever clicked on it. Then we called it ‘Neighbor to Neighbor,’ and still nothing. For some reason, ‘Get Published’ was the magic phrase.” Parker will pore over 10s of submissions from readers today. These will range from a local custom-car builder trumpeting his upcoming appearance on the BET show Spring Bling to an emotional notice about a play being staged to raise funds for a 5th-grader’s bone marrow transplant. Contributors submit to 1 of 233 neighborhood Web sites, each aimed at a town or community in the Cincinnati area. Parker approves the submission (“I almost never reject one”), scans it for “the F-word,” and posts it to the site. “A few years ago, these would have come across the transom as press releases and been ignored.”
another one, this time singing the praises of gannettt. whatever!
Washington Post goes digital
Why is the Post Co. in better shape than its peers? Luck played a role. In 1984 the company bought a small test-preparation business from a Brooklyn entrepreneur named Stanley Kaplan, not really knowing what it was getting. Today the Kaplan education division is the company’s largest and fastest-growing business
hmm? these “newspapers are reinventing themselves” articles seem to be all the rage now
UGC Visualization
Google’s Ed Parson’s showed off this map detailing where the most user-generated content was posted on Google’s geodatabase
behold our coverage
Gregor J. Rothfuss 