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Students at LIAFA University in Paris partnered with a team at Orange Labs to do some deep dive investigating into the Flickr site using some data from 2006 and produced this paper. They came up with some interesting findings.- 20% of users account for 82% of all photos- Pro users make up just 3.7%...

This year felt a lot less hectic than last year. Crowds were noticeably smaller than last year, probably because of the economy. Discounting the crowd size as a factor, the buzz seemed more controlled and thoughtful than last year. The question has shifted, thankfully, from how do we make a...

Some great thinking from Clay Shirky on the real threat to established media content, the idea that people start doing something useful with their cognitive surplus. "And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit,...

Alexis Madrigal has written for Influx a few times and should pending favorable conditions be working in the Planning Department of a large San Francisco agency, sadly the ad world’s loss is Wired magazine’s gain. Alexis writes about science and space for the renowned tech lifestyle...

It appears there’s no shortage of brands trying to grasp the concept of Web 2.0, but do they know what they are doing?Bruce Nussbaum in a post for Business Week, believes clients can longer trust big ad agencies, because they are pushing them “lemming like” into the 2.0 world,...

It appears the relentless innovation of Web 2.0 is already sapping the mental strength and willpower of some of its most ardent supporters. “I just got a Pownce invite yesterday and was excited to try it out, but I must admit a sense of horror came over me as I realized that I had to find...

Some interesting new "rules" from the BBC. (Via Tom Loosemore)1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) 2. The very best websites do one thing really, really...

Chris Anderson recent Long Tail post suggests that “Spare Cycles” are behind the Web 2.0 phenomenon and have given rise to sites like; YouTube, MySpace, Friendster and tools like Twitter. Anderson’s basic argument is people are bored and unfulfilled and will do anything to close...

No 21 on Influx's predictions for 2007 was the Flickr's "People's Photography Show" in Central Park. They are doing something close to this at the weekend in a community event called 24 Hours of Flickr. Here's what it is:1. On May 5th Flickr is asking its community to chronicle its day in...

Welcome to the wild new world of Web 2.0.Digg has been trying to stop its users from posting the code to break the encryption on HD-DVD discs for sometime. It made a decision to pull down posts which angered the community and all hell as broken loose. Clearly the community is the brand and it has...