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Social Utility, +/- 25%
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Social Utility, +/- 25%

I like Google… I’ve been a regular Google user since the day I first discovered its existence in 1999. Indeed, I’ve consistently found Google to be the most useful...

Guest Blog: Data 2.0 Conference Report
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Guest Blog: Data 2.0 Conference Report

Note: This post was written by Scott Nicholson, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Scott is data and modeling geek with a passion for startups, product and user...

Steal These Ideas!
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Steal These Ideas!

Talk is cheap, as the saying goes. That’s a good thing, since I am always overflowing with ideas that I have neither the time (I love my day job!) nor the money...

LinkedIn: HCIR for Fun and Profit
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LinkedIn: HCIR for Fun and Profit

This afternoon, I met with a couple of Stanford seniors to advise them on a startup they’ve been developing and targeting towards mid-sized online retailers. I’d...

A Practical Rant about Software Patents
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A Practical Rant about Software Patents

Given the controversial content of this post, I’d like to remind readers upfront that this post, like all of the contents of this blog, represents my personal opinions...

Life, the Universe, and SEO Revisited
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Life, the Universe, and SEO Revisited

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Life, the Universe, and SEO” in which I considered Google’s relationship with the search engine optimization (SEO)...

Life
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Life

Heading to Punta Cana for a week. Feel free to keep writing great comments — will catch up when I get back!

Google vs. Bing: A Tweetle Beetle Battle Muddle
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Google vs. Bing: A Tweetle Beetle Battle Muddle

Unless you’ve been living in a cone of silence, you’ve probably heard about the epic war of words between Google and Bing. But just in case, here’s a quick summary...

Got Skills?
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Got Skills?

Last October, a certain blogger said: LinkedIn needs to implement

Be Vewy Vewy Quiet
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Be Vewy Vewy Quiet

While my blog has always been and will always be a personal one, I do operate under certain constraints as someone whose subject matter relates strongly to his...

Internship Opportunities at LinkedIn
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Internship Opportunities at LinkedIn

Do you love big data? Do you enjoy applying your skills in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval and data visualization? Are you a hands-on implementer...

Dare To Dream
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Dare To Dream

“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” Martin Luther King, Jr. said these words at a speech in Detroit on June 23, 1963...

Quo Vadis, Quora?
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Quo Vadis, Quora?

I know, everyone is sick about hearing about Quora, the community question answering site that is the darling of the blogosphere, and perhaps you fled here from...

No More Quora Invites
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No More Quora Invites

Over the past days, I have been inundated with requests for Quora invites. I realize that I brought this upon myself my making my blog the top hit on Google for...

Enabling Exploratory Search with Dhiti
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Enabling Exploratory Search with Dhiti

Last August, I wrote “Exploring Nuggetize“, in which I described an interface that

Two Changes
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Two Changes

I just wanted to let regular readers know that I’ve made two changes to this blog. The first is that I’ve eliminated the use of categories on posts. I found that...

So You Like Big Data
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So You Like Big Data

The increasing volume of data that we generate as a species is a story so overplayed as to have become trite. Indeed, a vast amount of this data is in the public...

Reflecting on 2010: Searching for Answers
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Reflecting on 2010: Searching for Answers

Yes, it’s that time of year when we take a moment to reflect on the past year’s accomplishments and muse about what the next year will bring. Other than milder...

The Secret May Be To Keep Fewer Secrets
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The Secret May Be To Keep Fewer Secrets

In light of the recent WikiLeaks saga and the various leaks that have plagued my former employer, I was musing the other day about whether leaks are inevitable...

CIKM 2011 Industry Event
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event

CIKM 2011 is nearly a year away, but I wanted to give folks a heads up about the Industry Event there that I am organizing with Tony Russell-Rose. These events...
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