Awhile back a friend and co-worker showed my Stack Overflow. I never really got into at the time, but lately I have had need to ask some questions. Mostly, I really love the way they have organized the workflow and ratings of question/answer. It goes way beyond the email list thread idea. On top of that it is something of a social site as well. Your user gains reputation from posts/answers and voting. I was amazed at how quick I got answers but more than that how thorough people are to provide a clear and concise answer. The reputation aspect really encourages others to answer well.
Also, they are a service which uses Gravatars (see previous post).
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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
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Check out Gravatar! A very interesting concept of creating a persistent avatar that can be used with other web services:
In my early days at LLNL my co-workers called me "alpha geek" cause I am fairly knowledgable about a lot of software development and technical topics. I used to do ontology modeling with Stanford's Protege project and have always enjoyed the protege nerd that is their mascot. I "borrowed" him (I'm hoping he is under some sort of commons license) and twiddled him to match an idea I had to create the alpha geek. Mostly I wanted to make him look a little more like me so I shortened his glasses, put him in a T-shirt and put the greek alpha letter prominently in the middle. I then thought I don't claim to be a great teacher so I removed the pointer stick and replaced it with a thumbs up!
Here he is as my Gravatar. What do you think?
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