via http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/This_WEEK_in_GOOGLE_5

Personal Hype Quotient for:

Michael Shook

On a scale of 0-10, your ranking is
Level 3: Stupidly unaware of my social climbing and hyping possibilities..

How we did it:

We took your follower count which is 49,
along with your last 422 tweets:
Where you hyped in 4 of them,
you re-tweeted in 0 of them
and you self-linked in 0 of them.

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We munged all these together in our secret algorithm to come up with a level 3 score.

Three sided-cloud

There are three sides to the cloud:

1. The authoring tool. I edit and update a feed. It contains a <cloud> element that says how a subscriber requests notification of updates.

2. The cloud. It is notified of an update by the authoring tool, and then in turn notifies all subscribers.

3. An aggregator. Subscribes to feeds that may or may not be part of a cloud.

What they call real-time 

// just type here
// and click "submit" when done


void setup(){
  size(301,301);
}

  void draw() {
 background(290, mouseX, 50);
 noStroke();

 fill(mouseX, 139, mouseY);
 rect(45, 45, 45, 45);
 fill(20, mouseY, mouseX);
 rect(50, 50, 35, 35);

fill(mouseX, 139, mouseY);
 rect(100, 100, 100, 100);
 fill(mouseX, 20, mouseY);
 rect(50, 50, 35, 35);

fill(mouseX, mouseY, 139);
 rect(200, 200, 200, 200);
 fill(20, mouseY, mouseX);
 rect(50, 50, 35, 35);

fill(mouseX, mouseY, mouseY);
 rect(100, 100, 100, 100);
 fill(20, mouseY, mouseX);
 rect(50, 50, 35, 35);


} 

• short (because people don't read much online);
• rich in information scent, clearly summarizing the target article;
• front-loaded with the most important keywords (because users often scan only the beginning of list items);
• understandable out of context (because headlines often appear without articles, as in search engine results); and
• predictable, so users know whether they'll like the full article before they click (because people don't return to sites that promise more than they deliver).

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