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User Generated Content

By Adam Rifkin

Billions of primates at billions of keyboards can't be wrong.

Or perhaps they are not primates. Perhaps they are... pandas?

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Tumblr kills Storyboard, its blog about Tumblr creators

Marissa Mayer's plan: Reduce content costs to nothing.

Gawker admits defeat, tries to replicate Bleacher Report and Huffington Post ...

Quora keeps searching for growth, this time with user-generated product reviews — Gigaom

How Bleacher Report moved from user-generated content to editors and writers:

Digital Content: “aren’t we in danger of destroying the village in order to save it?”

Wikipedia: Does Wikipedia use any automated text analyzers to filter spam or offensive content? - Quora

William Shatner to Reddit: "That's racist!"

We post content that isn't ours for likes that aren't real to impress people we don't know.

Facebook growing increasingly paranoid. Now preventing users from extracting own data with Javascript tools.

Growth hacking: leading indicators of engaged users

Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

What makes us share? The effortless ability to make something our own.

Quora "aims to be the easiest place to write new content & share content from The Web"

Berkeley Study: Half-Star Change In Yelp Rating Can Make Or Break A Restaurant | TechCrunch

Glassdoor Grows Registered Users 10X in 90 Days

Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves - NYTimes.com

Facebook has a 100 Petabyte Hadoop cluster.

9GAG has 67 million monthly unique visitors and 2 billion pageviews/month.

Tech Confessional: The Googler Who Looked At The Worst Of The Internet

Once the biggest source of social traffic on the web, StumbleUpon fights to stay relevant | The Verge

Does Twitter Have Half a Billion Users?

Twitter: "Okay, okay, you can have all your old tweets."

The Power Users Are Revolting | TechCrunch

On a typical weekday HackerNews gets 150,000 uniques and 1.5mm pageviews.

Can Tumblr’s David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out? - NYTimes.com

The 1% rule in Internet culture.

If you give monkeys time and typewriters, will they eventually produce Shakespeare?

How many users does Quora have?

Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought. - Slate Magazine

Pinterest vs. Fancy & Svpply

Pinterest's biggest problem: People don't talk with each other.

Pinwheel raised $9.5 million so it can take time to grow.

"The advertisers are the users, and you are the product." ~Don Norman

Social News Deterioration - some numbers

Managing Hockey Stick Growth: GUARD YOUR COMMUNITY

Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out

f712u subreddit no-moderation experiment is over -- cannot self moderate

Reblogging from the artist's side

Usage Patterns of Share Buttons

MIT paper: "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community"

Daily Dot | A Pinterest spammer tells all

"They might have built an Internet-wide community of individuals who want to track, save, and share what they do on the web."

The connection between fan and inmate behavior - Grantland

"I'm not famous, but I have an outsized audience." ~ @ginatrapani

My 60,000 Facebook subscribers are driving me crazy.

Reading the Privacy Policies of the websites you visit in a year would take you 76 work days.

Reddit traffic is up 10x in a year because its users are cynical, skeptical, hateful, and trollish.

Tumblr's inflection point came when CURATORS joined CREATORS.

Pinterest was not a hit at first. But now it's addictive.

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