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 effect). Those workers at Western Electric didn’t build more relays [...]
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 Internet’s Payload [...]
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 for a [...]
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 » Tumblarity and Quantified Stand-ins for Social Status [...]
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. Ethos, or [...]
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 | June 2009 | What Makes Us Happy? [...]
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 easily use Taste to figure out, from past purchase data, [...]
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