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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Oldest example I could find of the "PC is dead" in the press, a New York Times article from 1992. If people keep[1]...

Eli Pariser is wrong
From Geeking with Greg

Eli Pariser is wrong

In recent interviews and in his new book, "The Filter Bubble", Eli Pariser claims that personalization limits serendipity and discovery.For example, in one interview...

Continuous profiling at Google
From Geeking with Greg

Continuous profiling at Google

"Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers" (PDF) has some fascinating details on how Google does profiling and looks for performance...

Taking small steps toward personalized search
From Geeking with Greg

Taking small steps toward personalized search

Some very useful lessons in this work in a recent WSDM 2011 conference, "Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History" (PDF).First, they focused on...

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From Geeking with Greg

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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Apple captured "a remarkable 50% value share of estimated Q1/11 handset industry operating profits among the top 8...

The value of Google Maps directions logs
From Geeking with Greg

The value of Google Maps directions logs

Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, "Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places" (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year...

Resurgence of interest in personalized information
From Geeking with Greg

Resurgence of interest in personalized information

There has been a lot of news about personalization and recommendations of information in the last week.Google News launched additional implicit personalizationFindory...

Latest reading
From Geeking with Greg

Latest reading

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Google tries again in social, this time focusing on the common trend of having sharing buttons...

Personal navigation and re-finding
From Geeking with Greg

Personal navigation and re-finding

Jaime Teevan, Dan Liebling, and Gayathri Geetha from Microsoft Research had a fun paper at WSDM 2011, "Understanding and Predicting Personal Navigation", that focuses...

What I have been reading lately
From Geeking with Greg

What I have been reading lately

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has been able to do and what...
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