February 7, 2003

Google Dance Tool

An interesting tool for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

“During the update, which takes several days, the 3 Google servers display different results. Whilst the results vary from server to server, they are said to be “dancing”, hence the name Google Dance.”

February 6, 2003

Latent Semantic Indexing

Heh, I wish this was available when I was in school, “One other possible use of LSI is for an automated essay writer. Given a big enough body of knowledge about a certain topic, an LSI program could take your homework, mark it and even suggest areas you haven’t covered.” (via Ben Hammersley)

February 6, 2003

Data emergence et al

Jon Udell just ties everything together in this sentence, “When teams form and work together, the “markup” that enables and documents team formation, and that represents shared work product, needs to arise naturally and invisibly as a consequence of tool use.” … great post!

February 5, 2003

Java development impractical?

I’d like to hear more on this, but according to Lockergnome, “Sun’s own engineers find developing common software applications in Java impractical…”

February 4, 2003

Rainbow Portal Project

“Rainbow Project, an open source Content Management System (CMS) based on MicrosoftÂ’s .NET IBUYSPY portal application.”

I’m starting to really dig the IBS portal framework Microsoft made available to demonstrate .Net

February 4, 2003

Microsoft’s SPOT: The Atari Connection

“Microsoft’s SPOT smart objects might indeed be tomorrow’s technology Â– if you were living in the 1980’s. That’s because the technology used in SPOT, FM subcarrier transmission, was originally used as a last-gasp effort by the Atari 2600 to distribute games wirelessly over the radio.” (via ExtremeTech)

February 3, 2003

Top 25 Simpsons Episodes

“25 best episodes of The Simpsons according to Entertainment Weekly“

February 2, 2003

People in Knowledge Working

Jonathan Peterson writes in his Amateur Hour column, “Web content can always go lower and be more Â“realÂ”. More positively; without advertisersÂ’ demands for Â“reachÂ”, individuals can aspire to the most intimate, emotional artistic visions. Andy WarholÂ’s 15 minutes of fame is closer at hand than ever before…”

“Instant messaging, ubiquitous connectivity (SMS, two-way paging, etc), project blogging, k-logs, XML and other technologies are going to allow us to turn the computer from a replacement for the secretarial pool into a tool for collaborative knowledge working.” (link via Kevin Werbach)

February 1, 2003

Links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

Scott Adams has been keeping track of links to the Columbia Shuttle Disaster (via Scripting)

So sad. My heart goes out to the crew’s families.

January 31, 2003

Trust Metrics

Mike Sugarbaker: “It’s very simple: there are some friends you’d trust with your seat at Starbucks, but far fewer you’d trust with your car keys, and even fewer with, say, your sister in a tube top.”