Archive for April, 2007

Recommendation technology follow up

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Just saw this tidbit that I liked in a blog post by findory’s Greg Linden. Looks like he’s still got the itch.
Search is about finding. Recommendations are about discovering. . . .
It is hard to find something if you do not know it exists.

The limits of recommendation technology

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

During a recent discussion with Eran Sandler, findory came up and it got me thinking. If you haven’t seen it, findory is a pretty cool news site that shows you some news and then learns what you like over time by seeing which items you click on. As it gets to know you, […]

W3 Schools Removal Script

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

If you’re a web developer and you’re at all like me, you’re constantly doing searches for things like “javascript string” and “css cursor”. There just isn’t enough room in the brain for all those little details.
Invariably, the top few results for queries like this contain links to pages at http://www.w3schools.com. These […]

Food for thought

Friday, April 6th, 2007

I recently received this story in an email from my cousin Andrea:

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them.
“Not very long,” answered the Mexican.
“But then, why didn’t you […]

Relinquishing Control

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

I used to glance at the http://isitnormal.com statistics rather obsessively. Recently, with my focus shifting to my new venture, I’ve found it slipping my mind more and more. I just took a look at the Google Analytics page for the first time in a week or so and decided to go back in […]