4 Things Non-Technical People Need to Know About Content Management Systems
A website built with a Content Management System (CMS) enables non-technical personal more access to update, edit and delete website content. Over the years, content management systems have gotten easier, faster and cheaper especially compared to custom-coded solutions. But this increase in usability, speed and affordability comes with significant tradeoffs must be understood.
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Best Buy: Brick & Mortar Meets Social Media
Big box retailer Best Buy has recently launched their “Remix” program which allows 3rd party sites to pull Best Buy products directly onto their sites via an open API.
Sidenote: An API stands for “application programming interface” which is basically a way for one website to automatically talk to another (exhange/pull info) behind the scenes.
Imagine this scenario: Say [...]
How About a Social Media Karma Algorithm?
I keep pondering the merits of a social media karma rating system. I’m a big advocate of letting community standards be established by the community itself. So once it’s set up, a karma rating system would automatically run itself (behind the scenes) based on community member activities and behavior.
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Why does social media need karma ratings?
The problem with socially-oriented websites in the past was ever-present bully who reigned supreme over your beloved newsgroup (old school!) or message board. You know this person: Always online with a vicious, contrarian viewpoint just for the sake of mixing things up. They bend statistics, use questionable logic and half-truths (at best). But since the [...]
