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Tagyu
Now this is cool. Tagyu is an “auto-tagging” service of sorts, created by Adam Kalsey. You paste in some text (or submit via their REST API) and it suggests tags, using some kind of a similarity metric...
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Windows Half-Live?
Windows Live looks like Microsoft’s tardy and half-baked answer to My Yahoo! It’s a customizable portal, with placeholders for weather and news and feed subscriptions etc. According to Bill Gates’...
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Spolsky: Windows Live, Marimba Phenomenon
Joel Spolsky had a similarly disappointing experience with Windows Live as I did. He calls it the Marimba Phenomenon: The Marimba Phenomenon is what happens when you spend more on PR and marketing than...
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Umbria – Market Intelligence from Blogs
FORTUNE has an article (“Blogging for Dollars”) that covers Umbria, a company based here in Colorado that tracks what bloggers are saying about its clients (aka mining blogs for market intelligence)....
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Alloy Modeling Language
I stumbled across this profoundly cool tool this week. From the Alloy homepage: Alloy [is] a simple structural modeling language based on first-order logic. The [Alloy Analyzer] can generate instances...
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Casual Grid Computing in the Browser?
Let’s say you just got a brand spanking new 8-core computer. Let’s also say you can’t run Mathematica because Wolfram’s registration process sucks so much (seriously, it’s the worst I’ve ever seen,...
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The Dream: Physical books printed on the spot (and recycled on the spot)
In Twitter this morning, @tatteredcover is asking how many people are moving from paper books to electronic ones. I own a Kindle, but about 60% of my book buying is still paper. I love the bookstore...
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Girls on the Run
We went to an auction event for Girls on the Run Denver last night. They do great work, check them out. They’ve grown from 90 girls in the program in 2005 to over 900 girls this year. Girls on the...
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Book Review: What Would Google Do?
I expect one of two things from a business book: an eye-opening new perspective that I would never have stumbled on myself, or a concise summary of insights that might occur to me if I had more free...
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Education Snapshot … Overheard
My daughter today (high schooler, Colorado): “In Science we’re doing exactly what we did in middle school, but at a more basic level” My niece (middle school, California) is having a furlough day...
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My daughter today (high schooler, Colorado): “In Science we’re doing exactly what we did in middle school, but at a more basic level” My niece (middle school, California) is having a furlough day today...
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Unfairbnb – avoid host “A.C.” in L.A.
I’ve used Airbnb for personal and business travel. I’ve been a fan. Airbnb used to be the future, and it used to be cool. Recently, I had an experience with a corporate host that was not cool, and...
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In some ways, “data visualization” is a terrible term. It seems to reduce the construction of good charts to a mechanical procedure. It evokes the tools and methodology required to create rather than...
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