Lots to talk about, here in January 2010. Three photo contests ended on Lenzr on January 1st, and are slowly being replaced. The matches were not as dramatic as previous finishes, as the winners established an early lead and maintained it over the entire course of the contest. You can read all the developments on the Lenzr blog including our endeavours to make a better scoring algorithm. In the next session, the voting results should more accurately reflect each photographer’s skill, as decided by the people, and be less about his or her ability to promote the page to friends. We are rewarding comments now, and reducing earlier metrics that were set too high. Congratulations to members seguini and ve3bnw Macro Photos of Life winner (right) was submitted by a prolific member named ve3bnw which sounds like a license plate # and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is, considering… Read more »
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Local photo contest website Lenzr.com launched on July 1st 2009. Happy Canada Day! The fireworks all over Toronto are bursting to celebrate the birth of this nation, but to me, the pyrotechnics are popping for Lenzr. After a two months gestation period which began when the notion was first conceived on my chalk board, and then transcribed into a seven page IA document (drawn on the fabric of experience learned from Dumpdiggers.com), William Webb of Innate Media Group delivered a demo on June 15th and now finally the beta site at Lenzr.com/toronto is presently running the first photo challenge. At the core of this photo contest website you can hear the echoes of the photo battles for old coins and marbles that occurred last fall in the Dumpdiggers Arena. As a website designer, I gained a lot of wisdom making the antiques social networking site at Dumpdiggers.com. Lenzr was built… Read more »
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In this sidebar of this blog you will find a very curious widget that cycles through the leaders of a photo battle challenge in the ARENA component of the Dumpdiggers.com social networking site. The same widget now appears in the sidebar of a very popular history blog called The Bell Rang, and of course it appears in the left hand margins of the Dumpdiggers blog. Here it is: This widget is designed to capture your attention as it displays curiosities that are battling to be the best in category inside the Dumpdiggers.com Arena. This platform allows peer reviewed / user submitted / user rewarded content – the winner is chosen by his peers. The Photo Battle Widget in the sidebar of this blog can be customized and implemented on any website. Clicking the pictures takes viewers to an ARENA photo battle much like the one pictured here on the left…. Read more »
