{"id":114,"date":"2005-11-10T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/11102005-meeting-notes\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T23:24:11","slug":"11102005-meeting-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/bloggroup\/11102005-meeting-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/10\/2005 Meeting Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Attendees:<\/p>\n

  • Alexis\n
  • Steve\n
  • j\n
  • EG: erica\n
  • LB: Lynne Baer\n
  • BK: Beth Kanter\n
  • DEF: Deborah Elizabeth Finn\n
  • SJ: SJ Klein\n
  • JA2: Jenny Attiyeh\n
  • LW: Lisa williams\n
  • CR: Colin Rhinesmith\n
  • DS: Danny Silverman\n
  • JW: Jon Winsor\n
  • ASW: Aaron\n
  • JD: Jared Dunn\n
  • BS: Brett Stilwell\n
  • AW: Amanda Watlington\n
  • Sooz\n

    Agenda: (full agenda listed on main page…<\/a>)<\/p>\n

  • Reddit.com, Alexis & Steve\n
  • No it ain’t del.icio.us\n
  • how is this different?\n
  • main opage NOT TAGGED on purpose\n
  • they do have a function to save links, and it will work like delicious\n
  • it’s different from delicious\/popular. very differetn material. news focused.\n
  • similar to slashdot, karma system and user voting etc.\n
  • karma doesn’t affect how your article you link is initially ranked or anything. all equal.\n
  • community of users: so far mostly technology. base is early adopters. want to broaden. tech people whoa re tired of reading about tech news.\n
  • goal: that feeds tailor themselves to you, thinks you like, things ppl like you like\n
  • DEF: what about renevnue?\n
  • they have had some funding so they can do working on this full time so far, which lasts for another half year or so\n
  • ppl have requested syndicating the tech but now they focus on working on the user\/reader base. funders want them to focus on eyeballs.\n
  • uses like the non-ad setup currently “if someone else wants to ruin our site with ads they can buy them from us”\n
  • 2,000 real live registered users\n
  • 7,000 unique visitors\/day\n
  • average users, maybe 10% of them vote, maybe 1% of users actually submit\n
  • they’re not explicitly tracking demographics yet. they’re going to add some more in the expanded profile but will make it optional.\n
  • when the same articvle has more than one url the community tends to pick one and it’s self-correcting\n
  • some discussion of if a ticker on the top would be good or not\n
  • are people going to be allowed to “cash in” a lot of good karma if they really want to promote something folks are voting down? (hey, or, to buy karma as a fundraiser hehe)\n
  • (Erica just signed up and is already voting. wheee!)\n
  • LW: why lisp as the programming language?\n
  • Steve: it’s really nice for this application. it makes our site really fast. whole site served from memory.\n
  • quality of content still fluctuates a little depending on who’s linking articles\n
  • LW: is there any way i can feed opml from my blogs into reddit automatically…? Using OPML say??? \ud83d\ude00 I want my blog to feed my flcikr, my delicious, my reddit\n
  • DS: have you looked at digg?\n
  • reddit: agh, yes. they have some issues, tho a lot of traffic. their site design is garish and content not great and they’re tech only. Digg is obsessed with feeding Slashdot.\n
  • mascots matter \ud83d\ude00 the alien guy rocks.\n
  • simple design is, well, by design. users come for content, give it to them fast\n
  • ooh the alien even has merchandise! but zero profit\n
  • erica gets all yay about shirts and merch and… off topic, so she’ll bug the boys about it later\n
  • they really really want feedback\n
  • final thought: other people are really good at finding things that are good, so you can trust your users.
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