- Persai Research
Feed corpus: 124,460 unique RSS/Atom feeds
(categories: persai feeds rss research data bigdata ) - The Rest of the Rest of Us
Quote: “Poverty is the most restricting force in American life. It’s become somewhat unfashionable to point this out, but I don’t see how it could be otherwise. Given the choice between being born poor and being born female, which would you choose?”
(categories: poverty consumerism oreily socialjustice education digital-divide ) - What We Have vs. What We Want
Quote: “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted if you didn’t have it.” (from Garrison Keillor)
(categories: satisfaction happiness consumerism materialism )
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Links: 1-20-2008
- Michael Gartenberg – The Real Importance of iPhone Update 1.1.3
Quote: “… the 1.1.3 update .. wasn’t important for features per se, it’s important because it shows Apple can give the iPhone extended life by delivering upgrades through the iTunes utility that change and enhance the iPhone and the way it works.”
(categories: iphone upgrades saas customization ) - LingPipe Home
LingPipe is a suite of Java libraries for the linguistic analysis of human language.
(categories: datamining analysis java language ) - Web Data Mining, book by Bing Liu
Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents and Usage Data
(categories: data datamining research book books )
Links: 1-19-2008
- How Does FeedDemon Calculate Attention?
Nick Bradbury posts the algorithmthat Feed Demon uses for determining a feed’s attention rank.
(categories: feedemon attention attentionstream algo algorithms feeds rss syndication )
Links: 1-18-2008
- (theinfo)
“… a site for large data sets and the people who love them”
(categories: bigdata data megadata datasets visualization analytics analysis ) - Themes – Google Code
Description: The iGoogle Themes API allows you to personalize iGoogle by modifying the page’s design. Your theme can modify the header and footer images, text colors, link colors, gadget frames, and more
(categories: api themes google customization )
Links: 1-15-2008
- Tristan O?Tierney » FlickrBooth
Cool software for PhotoBooth that enables you to automatically post your photobooth pictures to Flickr.
(categories: photobooth flickrbooth flickr camera free mac )
Links: 1-11-2008
- Manageability – How To Build Damn Good Software
Graham Glass (Mind Electric fame) and John Wiegand and Erich Gamma (both of Eclipse fame) share a few morsels of wisdom on how to build good software.
(categories: management software development java process methodology ) - SVNKit :: Subversion for Java
SVNKit is a pure Java Subversion client library.
(categories: subversion java svn ) - Re: Best Practices for Distributing Lucene Indexing and Searching
Be interesting to see if you could combine this with Hadoop to do distributed indexing.
(categories: lucene hadoop indexing search technorati distributed java clustering ) - What’s That Noise?! [Ian Kallen’s Weblog]
Some interesting stuff about MySQL, the ReplicationConnection class and scaling MySQL query loads.
(categories: mysql replication scalability performance ) - A Journey In Social Media: Clearspace Alternatives
Quote: “… let me make this simple. To the best of our knowledge, there is no viable alternative in the marketplace to Clearspace from Jive Software.”
(categories: clearspace clearspacerocks chuckhollis emc sharepoint ) - one small voice » Blog Archive » XMPP in TiVo
Tivo uses XMPP to send messages from central office to each machine now instead of polling.
(categories: xmpp polling messaging )
Links: 1-10-2008
- Pingie
RSS to SMS service.
(categories: rss sms aggregators aggregation mobile ) - new software pricing models (9 January, 2008, Interconnected)
Cool exploration of new software pricing models.
(categories: software pricing business )
Links: 1-7-2008
- 2008 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards: Applications and Middleware
Clearspace wins ‘Best Community Platform’ award. Suhweet.
(categories: collaboration community infoworld awards clearspacerocks clearspacex clearspace ) - IT Conversations: Paul Tuckfield
Excerpt: “… the three important reasons for YouTube’s scalability are Python, Memcache and MySQL replication, the last having the most impact.”
(categories: mysql scalability replication database databases youtube performance ) - Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted
Quote: “I lived my life better than some, worse than others, and I like to think that the world was a little better off for my having been here. Not very much, but then, few of us are destined to make more than a tiny dent in history’s Green Monster.”
(categories: iraq war death blogger andy olmsted ) - Amazon Developer Connection : Deploying Distributed J2EE Applications Using Amazon EC2
I wonder if there’ll be such a thing as a non-clustered web application in a couple years.
(categories: clustering ec2 amazing java tomcat distributed scalability ) - Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making ? HBS Working Knowledge
Quote: “History shows that the best and the brightest?the smartest guys in the room?often make mistakes because they won’t listen to what they falsely believe is not worth hearing… Decisions are seldom better for silence.”
(categories: quotes management dissent business ) - ClickHeat | Clicks heatmap
PHP app that logs clicks on a web page and can generate a heat-map from the resulting data.
(categories: heatmap datamining statistics tracking stats php ) - TED | Talks | Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)
Cool stuff. If you see me swerving wildly in an empty parking lot, you’ll know why.
(categories: kids parenting videos education engineering culture )
Links: 1-3-2008
- Enterprise RSS: 2008 : The Year of RSS
Quote: “A large segment of users are taking advantage of start pages like iGoogle and Netvibes to be their own aggregator, and are using RSS to accomplish this, there is no reason why this should not also happen behind the firewall.”
(categories: aggregators enterprise rss feeds syndication behindthefirewall ) - 2007: The Year in RSS – ReadWriteWeb
Quote: RSS “… made blogs readable, podcasts subscribable, wikis trackable and search persistent.”
(categories: 2007 rss feeds syndication trends feed ) - YouTube – Scotch Mist – A Film With Radiohead In It
52 minutes of Radiohead: every song from their new album. Brilliant
(categories: radiohead youtube video inrainbows from:billjive ) - ongoing · 2008 Prediction I: RIA vs. AJAX
Quote: “… the people who want to add UI ‘richness’ to the Web are always developers, never users.”
(categories: ria ajax flash gui usability ) - Xeni Jardin: Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands
Quote: “If someone’s misbehaving, she can remove all the vowels from their screed with one click. The dialogue stays, but the misanthrope looks ridiculous, and the emotional sting is neutralized.”
(categories: disemvoweller community moderation comments ) - If all your friends jumped off of a bridge? at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar
Quote: Facebook is like: “Whispering endlessly into a room crowded with everyone I?ve ever met while simultaneously being badgered by evil robotic clone versions of those same people that insistently try to trick me into buy things from Overstock.com…
(categories: facebook signaltonoise social socialnetworks noise )
Links: 1-2-2008
- photophlow: preview
Group chat for flickr. Would be awesome to see exactly this in Clearspace for each space / community.
(categories: for:billjive for:awenckus clearspace groupchat photophlow collaboration ) - ongoing · Message From the Web · Good-enough today beats complete next year
Quote: Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.”
(categories: gallslaw complexity collaboration systems )