Open Systems, Open Data, Transparency (14)
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Hank Williams points out that the front page of the Angelsoft website is really great. For those that don't know Angelsoft is a free web service that many angel investors use to manage their deal flow. We've looked into using it to manage our deal flow and I wish we could use it, but we don't currently. Hank and his commenters mostly focus on the twittervision style map on the front page that shows the ...
What is FriendFeed’s Affect on Blogging? (30)
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There’s an interesting meme that was picked up by Duncan Riley over at the Inquisitr earlier this evening with regard to the effect of FriendFeed on traditional blogging. It’s an interesting meme and something I’ve been spending a not insignificant amount of time thinking about myself. I’m in the midst of writing a long series of long posts for my personal blog on journalism with relationship to New Media, and I’m currently working on the ...
MapReduce framework Disco (16)
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Disco is an open-source implementation of the MapReduce framework for distributed computing. It was started at Nokia Research Center as a lightweight framework for rapid scripting of distributed data processing tasks. The Disco core is written in Erlang. The MapReduce jobs in Disco are natively described as Python programs, which makes it possible to express complex algorithmic and data processing tasks often only in tens of lines of code.
Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More (14)
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Yahoo has highlighted a few more implementations of BOSS, the search API it launched in early July that allows third party websites to incorporate Yahoo search functionality seamlessly into their sites. This is the second time Yahoo has showcased the fruits of BOSS developers. In early August, Yahoo drew attention to 4HourSearch, the Cuil knock-off formerly known as Yuil; PlayerSearch, a sports-focused search engine; Newsline, a tool for plotting news items on a timeline; and ...
Remix of Google's Chrome comic [Mashups] (4)
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Those crazy Olds at Condé Nast's Portfolio have stripped down and remixed Scott McCloud's comic-book introduction to Google Chrome browser. Best part is where they mock the developers-only techspeak that bogged down the original.
Metadata and Heraclitus (1)
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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog (15)
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I was very struck a couple of years ago by a comment made by my colleague Eric Hellman. He talked about metadata in terms of rivers and lakes. In the library cataloging model we have had lakes - accumulating stores of data that do not change frequently over time and are fed by a few principal sources. In the ERM/Knowledge Base model we have rivers - stores of data that change frequently as products and ...
perspctv (1)
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An exploration of Internet activity in reference to mainstream media. Gain a unique Perspctv on the 2008 US Presidential race.
Web Services That Cater To Both The Publisher And The Reader (17)
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I've been noticing a trend lately that certain web services are starting to cater to both the publisher and the reader. And I think this is an important direction for a host of reasons. You have to build a service with the user/reader in mind or you won't get any uptake. But if you can't engage the content creator in your service, you'll lose something important. When publishers start paying attention to a service, they ...
Paper: GargantuanComputing—GRIDs and P2P (8)
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I found the discussion of the available bandwidth of tree vs higher dimensional virtual networks topologies quite, to quote Spock, fascinating: A mathematical analysis by Ritter (2002) (one of the original developers of Napster) presented a detailed numerical argument demonstrating that the Gnutella network could not scale to the SCALABILITY (horizontal or vertical) = ability to easily add capacity to accommodate growth. Capacity doesn’t mean speed. Planning includes realizing what you have right NOW, and ...
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mndoci said:
"Gargantuan Computing" - Now that's a new one :)
Geeking with Greg: KDD talk on the Future of Image Search (9)
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Jitendra Malik from UC Berkeley gave an enjoyable and often quite amusing invited talk at KDD 2008 on "The Future of Image Search" where he argued that "shape-based object recognition is the key."The talk started with Jitendra saying image search does not work well. To back this claim, he showed screen shots of searches on Google Image Search and Flickr for [monkey] and highlighted the false positives.Jitendra then claimed that neither better analysis of the ...
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davidrbailey said:
Not sure I agree that we're up against this limit yet, but interesting nonetheless. Jitendra was my vision prof at Berkeley umpteen years ago...
Using the YouTube Data API with App Engine and the Python Client Library (5)
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Posted by Jochen Hartmann, Google Data APIs TeamFor those of you interested in using the Python Client Library with App Engine and the YouTube Data API, check out the new tutorial that we just posted over on the YouTube Developer Blog.
Beyond The Conversation (24)
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OK, let's get this straight. For the past couple of years we've had a great time talking about the merits of conversation, transparency, authenticity, facilitation, participation, and blah blah blah. Having talked about "The Conversation Economy" myself—I'm no exception to the "BLAH". So, we get it—and now it's time to get down to business. From my vantage point there are a few things going on at once, so here's a few thoughts rolling around in ...
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JayCrossler said:
This is a good perspective on three types of initiatives that could make sense when explained to executives. Shared so I can later use the image on a PowerPoint slide.
Trulia Upgrades Make Real Estate Personal with News Feed Features (6)
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While Trulia began as an online resource for home buyers and others interested in the ever-changing real estate market, its recent developments have started to drill down heavily into personalization capabilities. The latest features continue Trulia’s effort to offer services for the buyers and the professionals in the real estate market, and extend its platform tools in order to provide more value for these two ends of the space. There are three main aspects of ...
Trulia Upgrades Make Real Estate Personal with News Feed Features (6)
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While Trulia began as an online resource for home buyers and others interested in the ever-changing real estate market, its recent developments have starte to drill down heavily into personalization capabilities. The latest features continue Trulia’s effort to offer services for the buyers and the professionals in the real estate market, and extend its platform tools in order to provide more value for these two ends of the space. There are three main aspects of ...
Mass Customized Medicine in the Future? (5)
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This post is about a technology which could develop in the future. Right now, a new drug might be tested by finding patients with some diagnosis and giving or not giving them a drug according to a secret randomization. The outcome is observed, and if the average outcome for those treated is measurably better than the average outcome for those not treated, the drug might become a standard treatment. Generalizing this, a filter F sorts ...
Daylife API Challenge is a Flop, Shows That Mashups Are Hard - ReadWriteWeb (2)
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We get excited around here whenever a new application offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for 3rd parties to develop against. Oh, the possibilities! Sometimes, though, it just doesn't pan out and our dreams are dashed against the craggy rocks of reality. Mashups are hard and just because you've got some cool data and good hooks for developers to pull from doesn't mean anyone's going to build anything worth using on your API. Such appears ...
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Many of the conventional new services will be going all out in Denver this week at the Deomcratic Convention. Many Bloggers are there too. But I think that this may be the Twitter Convention too. Here are just a few from the PBS system: Laura Hertzfeld, Vote 2008 producer: http://twitter.co... PBS Vote 2008: http://twitter.co... NewsHour: http://twitter.co... Tavis Smiley: http://twitter.co... My Twitter feed has many more and all the breaking news services. But what I want ...Book Patrol (0) permalink
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