August 20, 2003

You write like a girl

Well, that’s what The Gender Genie is saying about me, which uses an algorithm to predict the gender of an author by analyzing a writing sample.

Damn!

Cool tech though.

August 19, 2003

Office 2003 Pricing is Set

Via Microsoft Monitor:

“Office Standard 2003 full version will sell for $399 and the Pro version for $499. Respectively, upgrades will cost $239 and $329.”

However, InfoPath and OneNote will sell for $199 each, which seems a bit steep — especially if they want to get them deep into the enterprise.

I still don’t get MSFT’s strategy with InfoPath. I think they should at least have a stripped down version or “reader” (like Acrobat) that they just give away.

August 18, 2003

More Punk Nostalgia

The site is extremely slow right now, but with a little patience…

“You will find here [Philippe Carly’s] entire collection of concert and candid photos of popular and not so popular “rock”, “new wave” and “punk” groups from the 70s, 80s and 00s”

Wow! It’s like I’m back at CBGB’s all over again!

August 18, 2003

Teoma eclipsed Google?.

The Wall Street Journal covers Google’s closest competitors (except Microsoft [for now]):

“Some search industry gurus even preach heresy: that Google isn’t the field’s technology leader anymore.”

Teoma’s providing more value by providing refinements from the “community”

“Teoma’s software has, in effect, found the “community” associated with your search, and is listing what related topics that community is “discussing.” For “power blackout,” the refinements Friday included “electrical surge” and “cost of downtime.”

August 15, 2003

Blackout Blog

Awesome collaborative phone-cam-blog that covers the Blackout.

August 14, 2003

PHP Photo Gallery Script

I tested the Coppermine Photo Gallery Script last night and it was very easy to install and best of all (IMO), it comes with a Windows XP Publishing Wizard plug-in that allows you to select a group or folder of images and “Publish” them to your Gallery. It will even create thumbnails and preview images.

Nice!

August 13, 2003

Craigslist to RSS

Ram Duraikannu has just emailed me about his new service that converts (almost) any craigslist mailing list into an RSS 2.0 feed.

For example, the following feed is of Bikes for sale in the New York Metro Area:

http://www.rightho.com/craigs.cgi?url=http://newyork.craigslist.org/bik/

Nice work Ram!

August 12, 2003

CXBX: An XBox Emulator

An early release of the CXBX XBox Emulator looks very promising — Although no games play just yet.
(via Lockergnome)

August 11, 2003

Personalizing PageRank

An article on CNet about a new search startup out of Stanford (link via Anil)

Kaltrix — “A stealth start-up out of Stanford University is hoping to raise the heat on one of the toughest problems in Web search–and possibly out-Google Google in the process.”

“Without discussing Kaltix’s plans publicly, the company’s founders have published research that claims to offer a way to compute search results nearly 1,000 times faster than what’s possible using current methods.”

August 9, 2003

Reviving A Dead Hard Drive

Detailed write up of swapping logic boards on a dead hard drive to recover data. (via Slashdot)