4 month ago
nelson : Google/Yahoo analysis - Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : jwz - Happy Groundhog Day! - Detailed analysis of how long Bill Murray was trapped in February 2nd in "Groundhog Day" [via] #
adamrg : jwz - Happy Groundhog Day!
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9 month ago
jcgregorio : Anil Dash: Google and Theory of Mind - Anil's arguement basically boils down to 'just get a blog', similar to the republican's argument that healthcare doesn't need to be fixed, just let the insurance companies fix it, which they have patently failed to do for 30 years.
nelson : Anil Dash on Google - A very thoughtful critique of where Google is weak
Andy Baio : Anil Dash on Google and the Theory of Mind - I had dinner with Anil on my first night in NYC last week, and he made me eat pig tails and veal glands; yum!
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10 month ago
nelson : Firefox memory fragmentation - Seems like a problem a better malloc() could fix
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13 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix - Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix: Jeff put this together after having a kid? WTF?!
nelson : Yahoo vs Google - product matrix, pretty good
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Ultrafilters, nonstandard analysis, and epsilon management « What’s new - wonder if you could muscle this into a solution of the two-envelope problem (http://consc.net/papers/envelope.html)
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13 month ago
nelson : Cocaine consumption - NYC has the most cocaine in the waste water
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16 month ago
nelson : WoW class specs - Interesting analysis of how people configure their classes
adamrg : Popular and unpopular specs - Okay, I don't play WoW anymore, but it is interesting to see an interesting use of public data.
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16 month ago
nelson : World is walking 10% faster - Amazing little study
adamrg : World is walking 10% faster
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Henry Porter talks in the Guardian about new legislature that would give MPs greater power with less parliamentary oversight - "The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary democracy" - the authoritarian streak of the Labour party I voted for is becoming increasingly obvious as time passes...
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32 month ago
kellan : Coverage of the "Health Savings Accounts" that BushCo will unroll at the State of the Union - Not only divides the "well from the sick, the young from the old", but will force a race to the bottom discrimination against traditional managed risk approaches. I'm impressed, it takes work to make our current system look good. #
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kellan : Coverage of the "Health Savings Accounts" that BushCo will unroll at the State of the Union - Not only divides the "well from the sick, the young from the old", but will force a race to the bottom discrimination against traditional managed risk approaches. I'm impressed, it takes work to make our current system look good. #
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32 month ago
kellan : Gladwell on the "The Moral-Hazard Myth: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system" - a commenter on the HSA reminded me of this excellent piece. #
cobra libre : moral hazard [via] #
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33 month ago
jkottke : Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API - Retrievr is a simple, amazing use of the Flickr API. You draw a little drawing and Retrievr fetches similar photos from Flickr. Photodisc, the stock photo site, used to have a feature like this back in 1997-98, but then they discontinued it (I have no ide [via]
Andy Baio : Retrievr - search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi [via]
Rod Begbie : retrievr - search by sketch - Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it. [via] #
Milo Vermeulen : retrievr - search Flickr photos by sketching! [via]
Philippe Janvier : retrievr - "Searching Flickr by sketch" : une façon assez inattendue de se rendre encore compte combien Flickr regorge de photos extraordinairement belles. [via] #
plasticbag : Retrievr allows you to draw sketches in an MS Paint style and then find similar Flickr photos... - It looks like they've gone and done some analysis on some of Flickr's most interesting pictures to try and match them up. If you play with blocks of colour you get some really nice and occasionally startling results...
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Riya - photo search by face recognition - This looks totally fascinating, although unfortunately since it only works on IE6 for Windows I can't look to see how well it works.
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36 month ago
ricmac : James Governor: How Gartner competes with IBM - "Gartner might get Napstered. It might get Wikipediad. Or it might get iTuned. Or all three. How about Apple to sell reports by individual independent analysts, with a community rating system for credibility and quality, as ebooks for the new Apple iPaper
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Anil Dash: Web Development Trends for 2006 - Web Development Trends for 2006
ricmac : Anil Dash: Web Development Trends for 2006 - "First, be an expert with a technology. Second, be even better at explaining the value of that technology." (good advice for bloggers and analysts too)
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph talks "Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists" - We've been having enormous fun at work at the moment experimenting with semantic network effects at the level of services. Totally worth a read this. Tip of the ice-berg...
Paul Hammond : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - an impressive result that comes at zero cost
kellan : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - I think we're starting to reach a tipping point of sufficient semi-structured data on the web. #
philgyford : Hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - Matt Biddulph doing clever stuff. Would be good to try this with some Pepys stuff I think.
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Some book pages on Amazon have Flickr-style visualisations of top words in the book, along with reading-ease analysis stats - This is fascinating stuff - particularly because Amazon are clearly looking for ways to sell more stuff through the revelation of some quite complex data...
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44 month ago
plasticbag : BoingBoing releases five years of posts for people to download and muck around with, and cites me as an inspiration. Aw...... - "To celebrate our first half-decade as a blog, we've put together a single html file containing 17,000+ posts (every post as of yesterday mid-day) in Movable Type export format."
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome graphing analysis of BoingBoing reveals a surprising obsession with the BBC... - I love this little browsable app - it gives a real perspective on what the Boingers are interested in. Also it's more evidence that Cory either has too much energy or not enough to do...
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48 month ago
Andy Baio : Wired on "The Long Tail" of the economics of scarcity - the biggest money is in the smallest sales [via] [via]
Wayne Burkett : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - A *must-read* for anyone at all interested in how the internet has changed how media are consumed (and how the whiny dinosaurs can get over it and still make money). #
cameron : Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - Online retailers can take advantage of the tail of a power law
Adam Gessaman : The Long Tail - So there are real journalists out there still.
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François Hodierne : PHP/SWF Charts - is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts from dynamic data. [via] #
cameron : PHP/SWF Charts - Could be SVN too, and simpler
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