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Posts from March 2008

How MoreLikeThis Works in Lucene

We created a ‘related items’ feature way back in Clearspace 1.0 (I mocked some of it out here just to prove that it worked) which shows related content based on the document, thread or blog post that you’re currently viewing. It was built using the MoreLikeThis class, a contribution made to the Lucene project by [...]


Links: 3-26-2008

Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments What a difference $5 makes. (categories: community culture comments youtube metafilter )

mail-trends - Google Code Stoo-pid nice analzyer / visualizer for email (as extracted from an IMAP server). This is what Clearspace reporting needs to turn [...]


Links: 3-22-2008

Paul Kedrosky: Dave Eggers’ TED Talk Cool TED presentation. (categories: education kids ted video pirates )

Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) Twenty new rules for performance. (categories: performance yahoo optimization tips web )

Taffy DB : [...]


Links: 3-13-2008

The Tools Google Uses Internally Cool stuff including the Google Ideas forum (rating ideas) and expert search. (categories: google intranet collaboration tools productivity )

scottberkun.com » Thoughts on Google’s 20% time Quote: "Google’s culture has a resistance, or even distrust, of hierarchy [...]


Links: 3-12-2008

Screengrab! :: Firefox Add-ons This is money. Mon-ey. (categories: screenshot screengrab firefox addon browser )


Links: 3-4-2008

TED | Talks | Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets (video) Stoopid. Reminds me that I’ve got a couple in my garage I need to fire off. Steve has a cool flickr page of rockets too if you’re interested. (categories: rockets ted aerospace aerotech [...]


Links: 3-3-2008

The Art of Possibility - Google Book Search I’m a sucker for good acronyms: BTFI is a pretty cool one. (categories: btfi reading books ted )


Links: 2-29-2008

The Highly Extensible CSS Interface ~ The Series ~ Authentic Boredom (categories: css design layout browser )