Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics Quote: "The gist of the idea is that people change their behavior—often for the better—when they are being observed (which is why it’s sometimes called the observer … Continue reading →

Flip Flop Fly Ball Cool baseball infographics. (categories: baseball visualization infographic charts art sports )

Exploring the 2010 Web Summarized: it’s 1) real time, 2) mobile, 3) decentralized, 4) made out of pre-made blocks, 5) social, 6) smart and 7) made from hybrid parts. (categories: socialmedia 2010 web future realtime social ) ongoing · The … Continue reading →

ongoing · On Carving Your Initials Quote: "If you have some ideas and energy and courage, the world is waiting for you to carve your initials on it… But please think hard about where." (categories: speech convocation life work )

Please Enjoy – The Work of Ji Lee 50 random people in NY don’t know the difference between a browser and Google. (categories: browser google video funny sad ) Information Is Overrated – Forbes.com Quote on twitter: "When I’m jonesing … Continue reading →

Hunch: Cred, Banjos and Badges Some original / unique thinking about status levels and reputation. The personality badges are really interesting. (categories: status reputation socialsoftware )

Twitter / Tim O’Reilly: OH: "God was able to creat … Quote: "God was able to create the world in 6 days because he didn’t have an installed base". So true. (categories: development productmanagement ) tiara.org » Blog Archive » … Continue reading →

Burton Brewery Brewery corner Parker & Heath St. Boston, Mass. on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Cool art. (categories: boston beer brewery art flickr poster advertisement ) Figures of Speech – Teach a Kid to Argue Logos is argument by logic. … Continue reading →

IEEE Spectrum: The Million Dollar Programming Prize Short discussion of some of the collaborative filtering techniques used by the Netflix competitors including nearest neighbor and latent factor models. (categories: machinelearning clustering collaborative_filtering search netflix ieee ) The Atlantic Online | … Continue reading →

Apache Mahout – Taste Documentation Taste is a flexible, fast collaborative filtering engine for Java. The engine takes users’ preferences for items ("tastes") and returns estimated preferences for other items. For example, a site that sells books or CDs could … Continue reading →