the button associates the piece of content with a specific analytics-like dashboard page that cleanly displays the credibility meter and spiders out to other services for more meta data. this really also needs to be a bookmarklet and browser plugin so browsers can use it on sites that don’t participate.

each participant in the system has their own profile page that openly reveals their own credibility. upon agreeing to participate, the user self identifies a few qualities to get their initial weighting. as they participate, their credibility adjusts and have opportunities to further refine their profile. another analytic dashboard tracks their credibility.

the rubric or algorithm is going to be very complicated. we need to account for tracking comments and conversation across multiple social platforms, traffic and analytics, media bugs and corrections, conflicts of interest, slant, fact checking, sourcing and all they entail. the dashboards and interface have to be models of elegant visualization design and focused on ultimate usability and experience.

second phase is building it out as an advertiser credibility network and ultimately a spam stopper. i’d love to go as far as considering a heuristic or intelligence tool to make sense of comments.

the value proposition has to be an open, embeddable software as a service powered by a community dedicated to accuracy, accountability, honesty, safety openness, and respect. our mission is to provide a means of identifying and categorizing content on those terms. more nuanced than a like, more numerically layered than a dig, it creates a folksonomy based upon content not as categories or keywords, but on our mission’s core values. with open apis, it is not a walled garden of comments or a forum for debate, but a twitter of linked numerical information that spiders down into all the connected dots.

i think we can do it. i think we have to do it. i think it’s django.

what do you think?

                          

if you want to increase sales and conversions on your landing page or homepage, you need to concentrate on fixing following issues:

* Too-much text (without any apparent order and layout)

* Headline that doesn’t tell what your product or service does (or, in other words, tangential headline)

* Lack of a single prominent call-to-action (either there is none or there are too many)

* Lack of social proof or ROI proof (who uses the service and what are the benefits)

via Landing Page Optimization tips: analysis of 50+ sites to find out what increases sales and conversions « I love split testing – Visual Website Optimizer Blog.

                          

Top 10 Star Wars Pumpkin Carvings (Jack-O-Lanterns) | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net.

                          

Steve Thomas [Illustration]: Vintage Star Wars travel posters.

                          

Official Google Blog: What does the future of display advertising look like?.

                          

“Video games are just another media format for conveying information, whether it’s narrative information, or story, or another way to express visual effects, or AI or computer programming,” said U of C librarian Jerremie Clyde, who is overseeing the collection’s production.

According to Clyde, games have educational value. His research interests include video games as scholarship, so it’s no surprise he is working to start this collection at U of C.

“Places like Simon Fraser University have had a similar collection for some time and these collections are becoming much more common in Britain and Europe,” he said. “Studying games as a media, whether it’s in social sciences, communication and culture, education [or] digital humanities, is becoming more popular.”

via The Gauntlet® News – Video game centre installed on campus.

                          

10 Mind Blowing Facebook Games Statistics.