http://www.uisocialsciences.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:59:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's a pretty interesting illustration of what user-generated content can sell for, at least in one context. In a forum posting Tuesday, iStockphoto head honcho Bruce Livingstone said the Getty Images subsidiary had 2007 revenue of $71.9 million, and it paid $20.9 million to those who contributed the imagery it licenses. For ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/09/04/istock-reveals-revenue-photographer-payouts/ Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang issued another rally call to troops on Wednesday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. as we look to build on the progress we've been making, i want to make sure you all realize how essential you are to ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/30/yang-sends-another-virtual-group-hug-to-employees/ Related: FashMatch: One click away from fashion 2.0 Shopcasting can flaunt your style, but the wardrobes need help ShopStyle, the search engine for fashionistas Shop by shape, not size Closet Couture is a new shopping site meets virtual closet aimed at women. Its killer feature is that it's got a network of stylists that ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/24/closet-couture-gives-you-a-virtual-closet-with-rea/ Now the fireworks and fractiousness can officially move inside Yahoo: activist investor Carl Icahn is part of the Internet company's board. Icahn had tried to take over the entire board in July, but settled for a seat of his own and for two of his allies. In a regulatory filing Wednesday, ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/its-a-done-deal-icahn-on-yahoo-board/ At the recent Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, N.Y., I heard two rather amazing sound installations. OrganicInterfaces is a collective of artists, scientists, engineers, and musicians and their installation, Mocean was a truly enveloping sound experience. Their Web Site describes it this way, Mocean is a site-specific ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/brooklyns-mesmerizing-sound-artists/ (Credit: Dylan Kehde Roelofs) (Credit: Dylan Kehde Roelofs ) OK, I admit Dylan Kehde Roelofs works of art have absolutely nothing to do with audio, but they remind me of vacuum tubes. They're incandescent light bulb sculptures, but it turns out Roelofs is contemplating a move to also do audio related ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/the-light-fantastic-incandescent-glass-sculptures/ (Credit: Siber Systems, Inc.) A good password-manager is absolutely essential, and most users of RoboForm would agree it's one of the best. (CNET certainly does: Check out the five-star review.) The program remembers your passwords for various sites and automatically fills them in when you visit. It can also auto-fill Web forms ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/manage-your-passwords-with-roboform-pro-2095-t/ SAN FRANCISCO--The feud between Apple and NBC Universal has ended. A little more than a year after it was revealed that the media company would pull out of iTunes, shows like Heroes and The Office will return to the digital store, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Tuesday at an Apple ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/steve-jobs-nbc-universal-returning-to-itunes/ Here's a fun tool for play around with over the long weekend. It's called SuperLame, and it's a simple tool for adding speech bubbles over photos. It's missing out on some of the special effects found in other similar tools like Comeeko, but what it lacks in versatility it makes ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/one-stop-photo-captions-made-simple-with-superlame/ Got questions about Web 2.0 and Web apps? So do I! But nonetheless I will do my best to answer your questions on the best online applications for various tasks, on privacy, infrastructure, and any other Web 2.0 topic you want to throw my way in today's live Ask The ... http://www.uisocialsciences.org/2010/08/21/got-web-20-questions-ask-me-live-today-at-11-0/