Monthly Archives: June 2003
Home Star Runner
BTW, I’m now a huge fan of Home Star Runner (flash required). My favorites so far are “Teenage Girls Squad” and “System Down”. Very funny! Who needs Saturday morning cartoons anymore?
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Wiki: Tenacious Collaboration
Tim Bray quotes Sam Ruby’s observation of the tenaciousness of collaboration via a Wiki “[Sam Ruby] speculated that this was like rugby, if we get enough people pushing in the same direction we’ll eventually move the ball in that direction.” … Continue reading
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Going Commercial
Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run. I suppose I’m most interested in the type of Ads that get served on subsequent posts. Specifically, the context matching of content to Ads. So far it … Continue reading
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The Search for Intelligent Search
The latest in Tim BrayÂ’s series on search I think this one is the best yet. Here’s a quote: “Consider what a really intelligent search engine would have to do. It would have to read an arbitrary selection of documents … Continue reading
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Download, Burn, Boot, Play
Dyne:bolic is another bootable Linux distro that’s focused on “Media” application. However what makes this one special, in addition to the multimedia applications, is that it will boot on a PC or an XBox (yes, XBox!). It’s not quite an … Continue reading
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Discovery Systems on the Road to Business Intelligence
Today must be research Wednesday for me, because here’s another great article on search. This one, from the latest issue of DM Review, is specifically talking about “Discovery Systems” in relation to BI: “Leading enterprise search and classification vendors, including … Continue reading
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Microsoft Targeting Google
Some interesting quotes from this article on CNET News.com about Microsoft new search initiatives: “The fact that Longhorn is on the horizon raises questions to whether search services will be integrated into the Longhorn experience and what the ramifications will … Continue reading
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Fresh slices of the RSS Pie
There’s a lively discussion on diveintomark about the road map for a new syndication format (i.e. a new version or RSS), which is in-and-of-itself a discussion of sorts on Sam Ruby’s Wiki currently known as Pie, but that name may … Continue reading
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Precision and Recall
Tim Bray posts his third in the series on Search. This one is on Precision and Recall. Here are a few good quotes: “While precision and recall are very helpful in talking about how good search systems are, they are … Continue reading
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The Motive of Uncle Orrin (no relation)
Based on the recent comments by Senator Orrin Hatch (no relation) and the ongoing reactions, I remembered a quote of his I posted back in February of 2001, which implied that Senator Hatch (no relation) was coming to the defense … Continue reading
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Info Aggregator: RSS-to-IMAP service
The folks over at Blogstreet have released an RSS-to-IMAP service called Info Aggregator, which is pretty slick. (link via Blogroots) However, it’s unlikely that I’ll be moving from NewsGator even though using the IMAP protocol does provide some alternative client … Continue reading
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Nobody Uses Advanced Search
Tim Bray’s second installment on search… “Every search engine has an “advanced search“ screen, and nobody (quantitatively, less than 0.5% of users) ever goes there. This drove us nuts back at Open Text, because our engine was very structurally savvy … Continue reading
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Rumor: Microsoft looking to buy Accenture?
Cringely writes in his latest InfoWorld column: “…one of my moles reported that Team Redmond might be looking to buy Accenture, the $11 billion consulting company. Apparently, Microsoft and Accenture have been engaged in some intense talks, with folks frequently … Continue reading
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“You have a marketing problem”
Steven Vore pulls out a great quote from George Gilder’s book Telecosm, which I think seems so relevant to the music industry — namely the RIAA. (link via McGee’s Musings) “When your product is stolen by thieves, you have a … Continue reading
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Office 2003 beta 2 “refresh”
PCWorld reports “Microsoft is on track to release its “refresh” of Office 2003 beta 2 to testers before the end of the month, a company spokesman said Friday.” This is good news, because I’ve been having problems with Outlook 2003 … Continue reading
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