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Back from Qatar
From CSDiary

Back from Qatar

In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric...

Asymmetric Following
From The Eponymous Pickle

Asymmetric Following

O'Reilly on asymmetric following. This is an aspect of social media I had been thinking about since being introduced to them. He has some excellent points here...

Netezza Links with eHarmony
From The Eponymous Pickle

Netezza Links with eHarmony

Another interesting application of advanced data warehousing capabilities. With other applications matching consumers and retailers:" ... Online dating service...

Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing
From Putting People First

Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing

Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction J.D. Lasica The Aspen Institute, 2009...

The End of Voice Mail
From The Eponymous Pickle

The End of Voice Mail

Now that I am using systems like Google Voice I thought about the ultimate demise of voice mail. Yet that system does not always provide a good transcription of...

links for 2009-05-10
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-10

New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers Fascinating, and now it's discovered so obvious you wonder why no-one else has observed it before...

Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
From Putting People First

Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation

A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on

Designing for Faceted Search
From The Noisy Channel

Designing for Faceted Search

While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...

Designing for Faceted Search
From The Noisy Channel

Designing for Faceted Search

While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...

Shareholders file suit to block Oracle purchase, Sun fears it bribed foreign
From insideHPC

Shareholders file suit to block Oracle purchase, Sun fears it bribed foreign

Sun gave the SEC some bad news on Friday. Computerworld is reporting that in a recent SEC filing Sun reveals that 3 different lawsuits have been filed by shareholders...

The Twouble with Twitter Search
From The Noisy Channel

The Twouble with Twitter Search

There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...

The Twouble with Twitter Search
From The Noisy Channel

The Twouble with Twitter Search

There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...

First Experience with WolframAlpha
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Experience with WolframAlpha

Yesterday I finally got early access to WolframAlpha. I understand it will be coming out publicly in the coming week(s). It is being positioned as '... Making...

Student Speaks Out About Computer Science Curriculum
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Student Speaks Out About Computer Science Curriculum

CSTA has spent the last several years arguing for rigorous computer science courses in high school, for emphasizing critical, computational thinking skills, and...

Dating Sites and Smell
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dating Sites and Smell

In Discovery. An approach that makes sense, but without a practical aroma interface, difficult to implement: " ... Two companies, Basisnote and Scientific Match...

links for 2009-05-09
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-09

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Design and ethnography at a ubiquitous computing conference
From Putting People First

Design and ethnography at a ubiquitous computing conference

One of the sessions at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous computing (Seoul, Korea), was devoted to design and ethnography. The four...

What Should I Say About Social Search?
From The Noisy Channel

What Should I Say About Social Search?

I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game...

What Should I Say About Social Search?
From The Noisy Channel

What Should I Say About Social Search?

I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game...

More Thoughts on Image Retrieval
From The Noisy Channel

More Thoughts on Image Retrieval

After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval...
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