Today I celebrate six months of working at Google. I’m having a great time, and I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about my experience thus far. First, a bit about Google’s New York office. It is a major office–in fact, Google’s second largest office and an R&D powerhouse. New York Googlers [...]

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For those keeping track of TunkRank, I encourage you to check out FluidDB, which just added TunkRank scores to its feature set. That lets you do cool things like find out which users I follow have a TunkRank score over 40. You can also read what Jason Adams has to say about it here. Speaking [...]

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I wish I could take even a gram of credit for this! I’m really proud of my colleagues for rolling out this new design that encourages and facilitates exploratory search. Go HCIR!

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Sorry for the long delay between posts. Fortunately the blogosphere has been providing ample reading material about the saga of the lost iPhone and the war of words between Apple and Adobe. I’ve been doing some reading myself. Specifically, I just read F. Randall (“Randy”) Farmer and Bryce Glass‘s recent book on Building Web Reputation Systems. [...]

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