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I just came back from the monthly NY Tech Meetup, whose theme this evening was “Built on Twitter“. While the meeting was well organized (a testament to Nate Westheimer, who received the torch from Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman, I had mixed feelings about the demos. Everyone is capitalizing on Twitter’s buzz, but so few people seem to […]
Over the past few days, Kate Niederhoffer put together a collection of thoughts about the future of measurement in social media. Contributors include: Neal Burns, University of Texas, Austin Center for Brand Research Walter Carl, Chat Threads, Maury Giles, GSD&M Idea City Sam Gosling, University of Texas, Austin: Department of Psychology Seth Grimes, Alta Plana Matthew […]
Let me start with a disclaimer. My idea of “finding shoes” is finding the one pair of shoes I own in the closet. In general, I’m not much of a shopper, let alone a shoe shopper. That said, I really love what Arlo Faria and AJ Shankar, two Berkeley PhD students on leave, have done […]
My friend Evan Sandhaus at the New York Times Company told me the other day that the paper of record would be releasing a large collection of their articles. Well, the New York Times Annotated Corpus is here! For full details check out this overview document, but here are some vital stats to whet your appetite: […]
As some of you may know, I’m not a big fan of advertising, and I made a decision when I started this blog to keep it free of ads. In particular, I assumed that the tiny amount of revenue I might generate via AdSense would not offset the cost of annoying or even losing readers. […]
On Friday, David Needle of InternetNews published an article with the provocative title, “Google Exec Disses Google’s In-House Search“. The essence of the article: Udi Manber, the Google VP of Engineering who is responsible for core search, evaluated Google’s internal search tools less than enthusiastically, saying “It’s not that good — I’m complaining about it”. […]
I am a long-time LinkedIn user, and over time I’ve accumulated over 1,000 connections. Most of them are people I actually know or at least have interacted with online beyond “connecting”. You might think that’s a large number of people to have as connections, and that I could afford to have a more selective velvet […]
Some of the most successful web sites today are social networks, such as Facebook and LinkedIn. These are not only popular web sites; they are also remarkably effective people search tools. For example, I can use LinkedIn to find the 163 people in my network who mention “information retrieval” in their profiles and live within […]
My last post, Is Google Good Enough?, challenged would-be Google killers to identify and address clear consumer needs for which Google isn’t good enough as a solution. I like helping my readers, so here are some ideas. Shopping. Google Product Search (fka Froogle) is not one of Google’s crown jewels. At best, it works well […]
I had lunch today with Harr Chen, a graduate student at MIT, and we were talking about the consequences of information efficiency for privacy. A nice example is the company pages on LinkedIn. No company, to my knowledge, publishes statistics on: the schools their employees attended. the companies where their employees previously worked. the companies […]
The Noisy Channel 