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Google Knowledge Graph: Clustering On Crack

May 16, 2012

One of the big problems with most search technology is that it still functions in a Web 1.0 way. For instance, you type in your search term and hit enter; when results come back, you scan for what you want and if it you can’t find it, you enter a new search term and hit [...]

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Ifttt This Is Wrong, Then I Don’t Wanna Be Right

April 27, 2012
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Every once in a while, something comes along that makes me hit my head like the star of an old V8 commercial, then reminds me why I’m so optimistic about technology. Ifttt is one of those things.
Ifttt, while a funny domain name, stands for “If This, Then That,” and that’s the simple beauty of this [...]

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Predict This! Kaggle Seeks The Michael Jordan Of Analytics

February 7, 2012
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Last week, my boss and I had the pleasure of speaking with Anthony Goldbloomd and Karthik Sethuraman of Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com/) and we were both impressed by what this San Francisco startup has cooking. Kaggle is a platform for crowd-sourcing solutions to complex analytics problems. There’s a great writeup at Forbes about the company.
Here’s the gist of [...]

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Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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Brand Spankin’ New WordPress

June 17, 2010
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WordPress released version 3.0 of the popular publishing platform today. I’ve already upgraded this blog to that version. You probably can’t tell by looking at it, but it just feels better… Doesn’t it?
I’ve already benefitted from the bulk update option. That will be a real time-saver in the long-run. For [...]

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What’s your social footprint?

June 9, 2010
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At my day job, we’ve been looking at mobilizing our people to get the most benefit from our social channels.  We’ve encouraged people to begin blogging internally and we promote particularly salient posts to the outside world.  Blogging started slowly, but it’s picking up speed now as people begin to see the value in it [...]

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Apple HTML5 Showcase

June 4, 2010
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Apple has added a showcase of HTML5 functionality on their site. It’s a pretty impressive display. However, you’re limited to Safari for viewing options. As HTML5 continues to get rolled out as a standard, creating rich web experiences will get a whole lot easier. I just hope that the uncomfortable period [...]

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Following Function

March 24, 2010
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Smashing Magazine has a good article written by Steven Bradley examining web design through the Bauhaus lens of “form follows function.” He first gives a pretty good summary of the history of Bauhaus and the evolution of its principles, then turns his attention to interpreting the validity of form following function. Unfortunately, [...]

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Zeitgeist from the Cloud – Tapping your audience

March 17, 2010

Jeffrey Veen has an interesting post over at his blog discussing a stream of Twitter data coming in while he was speaking at a conference. He says he felt as though he was cheating on an exam by “listening” to what the audience was saying as he was speaking. By addressing audience concerns [...]

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A Word on the Tagline

March 1, 2010

You may notice the tripartite slogan that’s part of the logo of this site:  Useful, Usable, Compelling.  Those three concepts are the pillars of the framework I use to design or analyze a system.  In short, what I mean by these terms is:
Useful
Does the thing do what it’s supposed to do and only what it’s [...]

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