May 2008
Please don’t run out of coffee →
I just posted my suggestion to MyStarbucksIdea: Don’t run out of coffee. Please discuss there.
Open Research →
It is paper review time. I’m on the program committee for a few conferences so I’ve been reading and reviewing a number of papers. Similarly, I have a couple of submissions that are out for review….
Machines versus humans at Google →
A curious revelation from Googler Peter Norvig appears in a recent post by Anand Rajaraman:
[To execute a web search] a subset of documents is identified based on the presence of the user’s…
Collective intelligence requires more than voting →
Giles Bowkett has an insightful point on voting schemes at sites like Digg:
When you build a system where you get points for the number of people who agree with you, you are building a popularity…
Autoflexing on the Caroline Web Server →
There’s a nifty new blog, Head in the Cloud, that’s all about Project Caroline. The latest post, Carrying the Load: Enabling the CWS Auto-flexing feature is particularly interesting .
Marissa on personalized search →
Google VP Marissa Mayer had a brief tidbit on personalized search at the Google I/O Conference:
There will be a bigger personalization piece [in core search] — looking at where users are and they…
Editing’s a drag →
I’m not saying editing is bad. But as news becomes a process rather than a product, editing can affect that process. Note the lead story from the NY Times home page right now:
The edited,…
Grounded →
Well, damn, my beloved Silverjet is grounded. Great idea, great service, terrible timing, what with record oil prices, a credit drought, a recession, and a sucky dollar. There goes the last hope…
Udi on Google search quality →
Google VP Udi Manber offers a high level description of what goes into Google’s relevance rank in his recent post, “Introduction to Google Search Quality”. Some excerpts:
Ranking is hard … We…
Yahoo builds two petabyte PostgreSQL database →
James Hamilton writes about Yahoo’s “over 2 petabyte repository of user click stream and context data with an update rate for 24 billion events per day”. It apparently is built on top of a…
A web parasite →
Here’s a business model:
Web mine all of the data you can from Last.fm
Serve their content on your web page surrounded by Google ads
Profit
That’s what MusicSRC is doing. They’ve wrapped a…
Pictures from paradise →
Kamel is back from Madeira (Portugual) where he presented our paper Collaborative OLAP with Tag Clouds: Web 2.0 OLAP Formalism and Experimental Evaluation. Madeira is too far from Montreal…
Help translate the video “Mandela describes the... →
I’m going to speak about Ubuntu this afternoon, so I thought I might show the 1 minute, 37 seconds video in which Nelson Mandela describes the concept of Ubuntu. In order to make it easier to…
One more Google superlative →
Rupert Murdoch: “I think they are the greatest company in America.”
Help translate the video “Mandela describes the... →
digg_url = 'http://www.gnuband.org/2008/05/29/help_translate_the_video_mandela_describes_the_concept_of_ubuntu/';
I’m going to speak about Ubuntu this afternoon, so I thought I might show…
Help translate the video “Mandela describes the... →
I’m going to speak about Ubuntu this afternoon, so I thought I might show the 1 minute, 37 seconds video in which Nelson Mandela describes the concept of Ubuntu. In order to make it easier to…
Help translate the video “Mandela describes the... →
I’m going to speak about Ubuntu this afternoon, so I thought I might show the 1 minute, 37 seconds video in which Nelson Mandela describes the concept of Ubuntu. In order to make it easier to…
thrash, death, grind, speed and hair →
If you ever have trouble trying to parse the difference between all of the many different varieties of heavy metal, be sure to check out this week’s Pandora Presents. In this 12 minute…
Google to Host AJAX Libraries →
Google has announced that they are providing versioned hosting of the major AJAX libraries. Very cool! They’ll put the libraries on their servers, so they’re fast to access from anywhere in the…
Amazing talk by Bernardo Huberman: attention,... →
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly…
Amazing talk by Bernardo Huberman: attention,... →
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly…
Amazing talk by Bernardo Huberman: attention,... →
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly…
Amazing talk by Bernardo Huberman: attention,... →
Today I attended an amazing presentation by Bernardo Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory at HP Labs, titled “Social Dynamics in the Age of the Web”. Below the roughly…
Announcing discovery site Strands.com →
We are happy to announce our latest launch here at Strands. We are opening the private beta for Strands.com, a very early version of a destination site that aims at helping people discover new…
Take that, 6 percenters! →
The monopolistic hold big real estate agents have had on information — on access to use multiple listings services — has been blown open at last thanks to the Justice Department’s antitrust…
It’s about frigging time →
Jeezus H. Cable, what took them so long? The Wall Street Journal reports that TVs may soon be able to get TV without those damned cable boxes that do so little for so much with such bother:
Sony…
If you like Harry Potter, you might like Harry... →
Borders has opened their own online bookstore. Previously, they had relied on Amazon to serve as their online presence. Borders apparently decided that letting another bookstore act…
NewsGator, SenseArray and APML →
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Media is singular →
Yes, we all get corrected by grammatical nannies when we use media as a singular when it refers to more than one medium: print, TV, radio, online….
But I think that media is becoming singular —…
WebValley: young minds of Trentino for a summer of... →
WebValley is the FBK-IRST summer school for dissemination of interdisciplinary scientific research. The selection is now open so, if you are a student, you can apply for WebValley 2008. …
WebValley: young minds of Trentino for a summer of... →
WebValley is the FBK-IRST summer school for dissemination of interdisciplinary scientific research. The selection is now open so, if you are a student, you can apply for WebValley 2008. …
WebValley: young minds of Trentino for a summer of... →
WebValley is the FBK-IRST summer school for dissemination of interdisciplinary scientific research. The selection is now open so, if you are a student, you can apply for WebValley 2008. …
WebValley: young minds of Trentino for a summer of... →
WebValley is the FBK-IRST summer school for dissemination of interdisciplinary scientific research. The selection is now open so, if you are a student, you can apply for WebValley 2008. …
If your ssh connection times out when you ask for... →
I have had no end of trouble connecting by ssh to my main Mac Pro. Whenever I would type “ls -1″ in a directory containing many files, the connection would time out. This problem came and went away…
Links for 2008 05 26 →
Andrew McAfee - Is Enterprise 2.0 something New Under the Sun?
Emails are often perceived as intrusions and ignored, and instant messages are typically fleeting. More fundamentally, though,…
Links for 2008 05 26 →
Andrew McAfee - Is Enterprise 2.0 something New Under the Sun?
Emails are often perceived as intrusions and ignored, and instant messages are typically fleeting. More fundamentally, though,…
Links for 2008 05 26 →
Andrew McAfee - Is Enterprise 2.0 something New Under the Sun?
Emails are often perceived as intrusions and ignored, and instant messages are typically fleeting. More fundamentally, though,…
Links for 2008 05 26 →
Andrew McAfee - Is Enterprise 2.0 something New Under the Sun?
Emails are often perceived as intrusions and ignored, and instant messages are typically fleeting. More fundamentally, though,…
My spam filter is asocial →
I am deeply dissatisfied with Google Mail spam filter. I get 4 or 5 false positives per week, at least 2 of them are critical. It might be the best spam filter in the world, but it does not listen…
Are you descriptive or predictive? →
As Peter points out nobody really knows what science is. Generally speaking, however, I like to distinguish two forms of science.
Predictive science aims to predict future events based on past…
Google: Cut to the Twitter chase →
I wish Google would just go ahead and buy Twitter and put us out of our misery. I want Google to get it, not AOL or Yahoo or Microsoft. We know that Google can fix its problems, as it fixed…
Fly Silverjet, please →
I was going to write a post after returning from my latest trip to London urging anyone who could afford to to fly Silverjet, the last remaining independent all-business airline (after the death of…
Why Python List Comprehensions Are Great →
So if you had the string
POST /wfs?request=Null&log&foo:bar=1,2:3,2:4,2&baz=x,y:y,z
and wanted to turn it into the list
['foo:bar:1,2', 'foo:bar:3,2', 'foo:bar:4,2', 'baz:x,y', 'baz:y,z']
How…
Not lay offs but new lives →
The Washington Post just lost a passel of talent in its latest round of buyouts. Reducing headcount on newspapers is an economic necessity today. Everybody’s doing it.
Note there’s now a blog…
Festival of Ecomics (May 29 - June 2, 2008) in... →
The program is very interesting! One more chance to plan some days to visit Trento!
The topic of the third edition (from 29 May to 2 June) is “Market and Democracy”. Check the program.
From…
Festival of Ecomics (May 29 - June 2, 2008) in... →
The program is very interesting! One more chance to plan some days to visit Trento!
The topic of the third edition (from 29 May to 2 June) is “Market and Democracy”. Check the program.
From…
Festival of Ecomics (May 29 - June 2, 2008) in... →
The program is very interesting! One more chance to plan some days to visit Trento!
The topic of the third edition (from 29 May to 2 June) is “Market and Democracy”. Check the program.
From…
Festival of Ecomics (May 29 - June 2, 2008) in... →
The program is very interesting! One more chance to plan some days to visit Trento!
The topic of the third edition (from 29 May to 2 June) is “Market and Democracy”. Check the program.
From…
The Economics of Data Portability →
There is an excellent post by Marshall Kirkpatrick at RWW, discussing the economics of data portability.
“We argue that it’s in everyone’s best interest that the data be freed. Vendors have far…
Towards a Value-Added User Data Economy -... →
Every week it seems like the debate over access to, portability of and privacy over user data on the social web has reached new heights. It’s only going …
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