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Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them here in the Community Corral
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Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012
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Twitter Limits Access to Friends of Friends via API
What do you think about Twitter's recent moves limiting access to data via their API? Continue
Started by Michael Levin Aug 23, 2012.
The Art of Community 2 Replies
I've just started reading…Continue
Tags: building, oreilly, community, of, jono
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Jan 31, 2012.
http://www.managingonlineforums.com/ 3 Replies
I just started reading the book, Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards and the author provided a link to his website, so I…Continue
Tags: networking, discussion, community, websites
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by Patrick O'Keefe Nov 11, 2009.
Friending people on twitter 2 Replies
I have noticed that whereas someone would normally search for their friends on twitter for purpose of following them, it is also possible to use twitter as a marketing tool and a community building…Continue
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by John Dargan Nov 8, 2009.
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Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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New Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) Hopes to Cut LLM Costs by Reducing Token Consumption
The recently released Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) aims to be a schema-aware alternative to JSON that significantly reduces token consumption at a similar level of accuracy. While the existence and importance of token saved depend on the data shape. some benchmarks show TOON may use in some cases 40% fewer tokens than JSON, possibly resulting in LLM and inference cost savings.
By Bruno CouriolOlmo 3 Release Provides Full Transparency Into Model Development and Training
The Allen Institute for AI has unveiled Olmo 3, an open-source language model family that empowers developers with full access to the model lifecycle, from training datasets to checkpoints. Featuring reasoning-focused variants and robust tools for post-training modifications, Olmo 3 promotes transparency, experimentation, and community collaboration, driving innovations in AI.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiNexla Launches Express: A Conversational Platform for AI Data Engineering
Nexla recently introduced Express, a conversational data engineering platform designed to dramatically lower the barrier for building data pipelines for AI applications.
By Craig RisiCloudflare Global Outage Traced to Internal Database Change
Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discussions on the importance of multi-vendor strategies in tech. Cloudflare's CEO vowed to enhance system resilience, emphasizing that outages can impact even the largest providers.
By Steef-Jan WiggersGrafana Unveils Smarter Logs, an MCP Server, and TraceQL Upgrades in Latest Releases
Grafana Labs has published major updates across two of its core observability products: Grafana 12.3, and Grafana Tempo 2.9. The two releases have distinct improvements in monitoring, logs, and tracing for Grafana users.
By Matt Saunders
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