In our main experiment, we worked with an established eBay auctioneer to sell matched pairs of items -- batches of vintage postcards -- under his extremely high reputation identity, and under newcomer identities with little reputation. Our second experiment followed the same format, but compared sales under newcomer identities with and without negative feedback. Having controlled the content of the auctions, and the presentation of item information, we were able to minimize the effects of variables other than reputation. As expected, the established identity fared better. The price difference was 7.6% of the selling price.
I was playing with the Picasa photo organizer today (review). It's gorgeous. Adobe Photo Album is also nice, but the UI in Picasa is so smooth and the Slide Show mode is wonderful. It feels like an OS X app for Windows.
[Photography is] a means of communicating at its core. People use photos to visually communicate with others about a vacation, a bike ride, a news event, a celebrity, or about your “totaled” car to the insurance company. The process of visually communicating is in for a drastic shift due to the arrival of cell phone cameras.
..Nowadays, people around the world don’t leave their homes without their designer cell phones unlike with cameras. Professional photographers usually carry their cameras around everyday but there are times even they leave the house without their camera – but all take their cellular phones.
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the future of pictures in my wallet: So I downloaded all my camera photos, like a hundred of them, or eighty of them, and put them on my computer, but I kept the three that I really liked on the cell and shared them in the office on the phone.
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the sole reason that anybody makes a picture, whether a professional, consumer or business is to communicate. That’s the sole reason; to communicate, share that communication, save a memory, and document history, which is just another communication for a later date.
Who, What, Where? k-collector looks interesting... it's a shared taxonomy for catagorizing posts by who, what, and where. So I'm going to file this post under Micah Alpern at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh PA.... whoops, looks like you can only choose one topic.
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Testing a new weblog Tool I'm experimenting with k-collector, an "enterprise weblog client" built on top of Radio Userland. I'll let you know what I think.
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