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Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments

social network,Yahoo,search,sentiment

If the adage "if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all" were applied to the Web, most comment threads would be empty. Some comments posted in response to a news article, blog, video or other online content successfully advance a debate and/or challenge assertions made by reporters, bloggers and editors. [...]

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Yahoo’s salvation: Hackers who love its site as much as (or more than) it does

Shirky,Yahoo,hack

What is it about ridiculously popular Web sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that makes them so popular? In a word, community. That is, a loyal base of fans that use and contribute to the site. Search engine provider Yahoo has embraced this notion as a way to rejuvenate itself as the company waits for [...]

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