Our Experiments

Is your information correct?

Is your information correct?

How easy or difficult do you find hunting email addresses, phone numbers or social networking profiles of a person you wish to know about? I know you would Google out their names and look out for maximum amount of information... (Continue reading)

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Digital Marketing the Twitter Way!

Digital Marketing the Twitter Way!

How does the idea of marketing on a microblogging platform – Twitter  sound?  WebCoherence being already present there, we thought of experimenting with it. “But how?” – A discussion sparked between me and another Web Ecologist  – Railsbob. We were... (Continue reading)

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Conference Twitting

A couple days ago fellow webcoherence author Ian Angell wrote about the clatter he (and 80 other people in the room) were constantly immersed in during the first day of the Communia conference.  Ian closed with ‘at least the twitterers... (Continue reading)

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One way to look at things… Web Ecology

We’ve been talking a lot about the ‘coherent nature’ of the web – how the various micro-communities, groups, market forces, and innumerable other things act together to create a coherent entity that is separate from it’s originating forces.  And we’re... (Continue reading)

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Spam Evaluation Experiment #1

Aim: To check the nature and amount of spam received when email addresses are left on the public world wide web. Ingredients: Email addresses set up with popular ISPs (Google and Hotmail), and access to a public web page. Method:... (Continue reading)

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Email Experiments – Setting up forwarding

For the benefit of experimenters, we have listed down the steps they need to follow to setup forwarding on their Google Mail and Hotmail accounts. Steps to setup forwarding on Google mail: G1. Login to your newly created Google mail... (Continue reading)

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Email experiments – Starting Simply

Many of your experiments will be using e-mails for feedback, data collection and communication. Thus it is essential that you create a brand new group of e-mails for each new experiment, so that the data from any one experiment doesn’t... (Continue reading)

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Learning to love Spam

Learning to love Spam

I used to be very annoyed whenever spam mail managed to penetrate my mail filters. But no more! In a flash of enlightenment I found myself in awe of the sheer ingenuity (as well as the brass nerve) of the... (Continue reading)

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