Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Noisy Channel: The Efficiency of Social Tagging Quote: "… the efficiency of tagging on del.icio.us has been decreasing over time… and conclude by suggesting that current tagging interfaces may be at fault, through a positive feedback process of encouraging … Continue reading →

JSSh – a TCP/IP JavaScript Shell Server for Mozilla Remotely control Firefox. What a great prank this would make. (categories: ajax automation browser debugging firefox extension shell mozilla javascript ) 10 Things I Want From Enterprise RSS » SlideShare The … Continue reading →

Slides from Spinn3r Architecture Talk at 2008 MySQL Users Conference « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog Scaling MySQL / Java with an emphasis on writes. (categories: java jdbc mysql performance presentations kevinburton ) IdeaFactory : Weblog : Google Docs and JRoller … Continue reading →

Yahoo! Developer Network: Yahoo! Weather Free weather data in RSS format for "… your own web site or client application" but then the fine print says only personal / non-commercial. Bollucks. (categories: weather yahoo api feed feeds rss data ) … Continue reading →

social Info Page Mailing list on jabber.org, description: "the mashup of Web and Jabber! OpenID, OAuth, buddy lists beyond IM, XMPP pubsub instead of HTTP polling, etc." (categories: jabber xmpp openid oauth socialnetworks blogging blogs ) sioc-project.org | Semantically-Interlinked Online … Continue reading →

PottyMouth Quote: "PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML." Python. Ported to Ruby as well. (categories: markup python security content comments ) Where to Find Open Data on the Web – ReadWriteWeb Great list … Continue reading →

findability.org: Brian Goodman: Interview Quote: "… integrating social data (e.g., ratings, tag frequency) directly into the algorithms for enterprise search. A page that’s been bookmarked, for instance, receives a boost." (categories: search enterprise socialnetworks social )

reddit.com: ask reddit: what other visualization tools do you know besides processing, graphviz and nodebox? References to some other cool Java viz tools. (categories: data graph nodebox opensource statistics visualization )

Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms Quote: "… adding more, independent data usually beats out designing ever-better algorithms to analyze an existing data set." (categories: algorithms bigdata data database databases algorithm netflix datamining ) Looks Good Works Well Bill … Continue reading →