http://www.philmichaelson.com/community-incentives/watch-out-founders-early-decisions-lead-to-awful-user-generated-content/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=watch-out-founders-early-decisions-lead-to-awful-user-generated-content Thoughts on building a content management service in the (too much) information age Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.philmichaelson.com/community-incentives/watch-out-founders-early-decisions-lead-to-awful-user-generated-content/#comment-26 Phil Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:37:59 +0000 http://www.philmichaelson.com/?p=4#comment-26 Seeding content from other sites does make your site look full, which is important. Its neat that Amazon allows user product reviews to leave their closed site. yelp also has an API that allows for seeding local reviews...though you know my opinion on their quality ;) Seeding content from other sites does make your site look full, which is important. Its neat that Amazon allows user product reviews to leave their closed site. yelp also has an API that allows for seeding local reviews…though you know my opinion on their quality

]]> http://www.philmichaelson.com/community-incentives/watch-out-founders-early-decisions-lead-to-awful-user-generated-content/#comment-25 Conor Neu Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:21:56 +0000 http://www.philmichaelson.com/?p=4#comment-25 Very interesting points here. As we build Lahaina.com, its tough to plan our review and social network side of the directories. I like Marchex's use of OpenList, which is a comment/review aggregator. Rating reviews also helps. But in the end, a chicken-vs-egg scenario always comes about from new communities...especially as more and more communities continue to be created. Very interesting points here. As we build Lahaina.com, its tough to plan our review and social network side of the directories. I like Marchex’s use of OpenList, which is a comment/review aggregator. Rating reviews also helps. But in the end, a chicken-vs-egg scenario always comes about from new communities…especially as more and more communities continue to be created.

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