Neanderthals Were Not Good at Social Networking

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Neanderthals Were Not Good at Social Networking

by Erik Sass, 94 minutes ago

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Neanderthals’ bigger eyes and bodies meant they had less brain space to dedicate to social networking, which may explain why they died out and Homo sapiens conquered the planet, according to a new study. -- Agence France-Presse, March 12, 2013

OccipitalPunny: I don’t get it.

NeanderYall: Don’t get what?

OccipitalPunny: Why the humans don’t follow me back when I follow them.

NeanderYall: Oh not this again.

OccipitalPunny: I like all their posts and re-tweet everything but they don’t follow me back. It’s like I’m not good enough or something. Like they are so smart and we’re not.

NeanderYall: Um maybe they are? Did you see the Prezi with their new cave art? And their new totems are awesome.

OccipitalPunny: Whatever, we basically had the same totems five years ago. They just didn’t catch on because the market wasn’t ready.

NeanderYall: Uh yeah that and also the craftsmanship was maybe not so great.  I mean you remember the Earth Mother figurine fiasco.

OccipitalPunny: Ugh don’t remind me. What a disaster!

NeanderYall: LOL I swear the gods are still angry with us.

OccipitalPunny: Ha yeah probably.

NeanderYall: And their collaborative hunting app is honestly pretty cool. I just wish they would release it on our operating system.

OccipitalPunny: It’s cool but the whole Ambush feature is not fair to the mammoths.  What about market equilibrium? It’s like they are trying to squeeze them out.

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OccipitalPunny: Anyway I’m still mad at the humans.

NeanderYall: I know. They are so full of themselves. Just because their tools are, like, way better than ours? 

OccipitalPunny:  Dude, our tools aren’t that bad. They get the job done!

NeanderYall: Totally. I will put our hide scraper up against theirs any day of the week.

OccipitalPunny: You know what I think is, I think the hide scraper is a sleeper product. In a couple years it will be standard. I’m telling you today.

NeanderYall: Maybe. But I gotta say I heard really good things about the new iAxe 5.

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Twitter Will Decide the Value of Your Tweets

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Sam Laird5 days ago

Twitter is about to start attaching value ratings to users' tweets.

The value judgements will be assigned to the public metadata of tweeters' posts, and used by Twitter's streaming API to help developers more selectively curate massive amounts of status updates.

Designations of "none," "low" and "medium" will most likely debut on Feb. 20, according to a post by developer advocate Arne Roomann-Kurrik on the Twitter developers' blog. A "high" value option will be rolled out sometime after the initial batch.

How exactly tweets will be ranked is not entirely clear, but Roomann-Kurrik says "medium" — and, later — "high" value posts will be roughly analogous to the "Top Tweets" results you get when you search a word or hashtag on Twitter.com. That likely indicates tweets drawing high engagement or coming from users with large followings.

Boiled down, the idea is to make Twitter's streaming API more useful for developers, who can tweak applications to specify what types of tweets they would like surfaced on a given subject or subjects. Roomann-Kurrik gets into more technical specifications of how this will work in his blog post.

That's mostly a positive for users, as the change should help surface better content. It's definitely a positive for Twitter, which will have the power to designate "high" value tweets (in some cases, perhaps, for a price) and possibly experiment with new ways of displaying tweets. On the other hand, judging the value of tweets is a significant and unprecedented step for the company. Some could find it a bit invasive and, well, judgmental.

In the same blog post, Roomann-Kurrik also announces another impeding tweak to the Twitter API that will give developers the option of language-specific tweet curation.

Are value ratings for tweets more useful or annoying? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Image of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo courtesy of Twitter

http://mashable.com/2013/02/14/twitter-judge-value-tweets/