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Merging Humans with Tools to Slow Down Trolls

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:40 PM by jledgard
This was a great read that I found through Seth Godin's blog . Troll whisperers aren't necessarily very good at hacking tools, so there's always an opportunity for geek synergy in helping them to automate their hand-crafted techniques, giving them a software Read More...
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Building Live QnA Gadgets

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 3:47 PM by jledgard
Betsy has a great post on how to build live QnA gadgets. Live QnA is a question-and-answer service that emits data in XML format (RSS). While we do not offer at this time a specific API beyond the RSS feeds that you can generate from search, you will Read More...
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Good hire by Sandy & Crew... Yag goes to work on Communities

Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 9:32 AM by jledgard
Yag, a fixture in the foxpro/data community, has decided to take on the challenge of architecting community platform infrastructure at Microsoft. This means that he’ll get to hear at lot more of my griping and brain farts than he did when he was Read More...
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More on rich online developer profiles from joe

Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:23 AM by jledgard
Joe Morel's Blog : Forums Reputation Phase 3 – Profiles . I used to think that rich profiles were dumb—that they were really only something that were only used by teenagers hell-bent on getting the latest and greatest AIM virus. Then I saw Read More...
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Are Tech Support Sites like Asp.net and MSDN Forums Sticky?

Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:52 AM by jledgard
I hear from some folks inside Microsoft that sites like the MSDN forums aren't "sticky", that people don't keep coming back to form a "community", and that they are purely transactional in nature. I don't buy these statements one bit. Here is someone Read More...
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Building a killer forum reputation system

Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 9:08 AM by jledgard
Joe is breaking apart his vision for Q&A forum reputation system into three phases. At Microsoft the common terminology for this is "crawl, walk, run". The current MSDN forum reputation system, as it exists today, is probably in the "yet to be born" Read More...
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Good Feedback on VS 2005 Documentation

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:51 AM by jledgard
[ Via Mickey ] If you have installed Visual Studio 2005, and have not checked out the documentation included with it, then you need to. Go to: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Documentation This Read More...
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Prototype of Forums Instant Answers

Posted Wednesday, August 03, 2005 5:12 PM by jledgard
I recently posted my ideas for cutting off the duplicate questions in online web based forums . I'm enjoying all the feedback, but I was most impressed when Lee Holmes who took my PM art to the next level and created a functioning prototype to further Read More...
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