Anyone remembers the days when Google said how they want to focus on search and search only? They are certainly not focusing on it so much any more, and are adapting to the market forces. Nice and agile.
Exactly. And that is exactly why I used Folksonomy as a parallel. That is exactly what happens there. Different people see the same thing and tag it as it fits them.
I saw a piece about Ben Franklin on TV the other night. Apparently, at one point Ben Franklin applied the same kind of thinking to taxes. When the tax law no longer made sense, the tax law had to be changed. Hm, this reminds me of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. That's not changing any time soon, is it?
Good urban architects don't impose pavements on people. They let people walk freely and observe the walking routes and patterns. Then they put down the walk-way, and that becomes the standard place to walk. You follow it until you find something better, a shortcut. Then you build a new pavement there.
Folksonomies[1] are hot these days, and they go against the rigid a priory classification that has been standard so far. That's another example of a shortcut. Because it's better (easier, faster, more natural, etc.) people are adopting it, and it's becoming a de facto standard. That's the new shortcut, and pavents are being built to facilitate this new route.
While it makes sense to pick the L line for this experiment, it's also important to note that L is reallly the only direct line that connects Williamsburg (Brooklyn) to Manhattan. If someting goes awry with that computerized L, a lot of Burg people will have to work from home.
As an avid "sponge diver", I feel it is my responsibility to minimize the common misconception that sponges are plants. No, they are animals. Sorry if you rememeber this from elementary school, but sadly lots of people do not.
And fish are our friends, not food. I like them fried, steamed, etc.
I agree. There is a UI problem there. If you like social bookmarking, but would like a prettier and more usable UI, see the link in my sig. Judging from user's feedback, people like it better than delicious. And delirious... what that guy did, Steve Mallett, is VERY unethical, in IMHO. The explanation for the name choice is a transparent lie.
They do, and you can upload the bookmarks file, but that is not what social bookmarking services provide. Simpy (link below) will full-text index your bookmarks (think Google-for-my-bookmarks), it will let you pull your bookmarks into other services and applications (via the REST API), it will let you watch other people's links (via something called Topics), it will let you find people with similar interests, and so on. It's not only about your bookmarks being available from anywhere and it's not only about being social. It's both of those things and more.
It's not only about sharing. It's also about finding a needle in a stack. A phrase in a collection of several thousand bookmarks. How do you do that? See the link in my signature. Neither Delirious nor Delicious will really help you do that. And Delirious is a rip-off that should be boycotted.
It may be interesting to know that Nutch has been used for this purpose for a while now: http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp. It may also be interesting to know that Yahoo! Labs hosts a Nutch demo search engine with a few hundred million indexed web pages.
This is great news for Lucene, which is what's at the core of Beagle. More specifically, it is the port of Lucene (Java) to C# and.Net, which can be found at http://www.dotlucene.net/.
According to my logs, about 6.5% of Simpy[1] visitors are using MacOS. This number has been pretty steady over the last several months. The number of Linux user has been dropping slowly.
If you think del.ico.us is cool, you should check out Simpy. Yes, it lets you tag your links, but also watch other users (think of delicious Inbox, but then multiply them by any number), subscribe to feeds, get your data from Simpy programmatically via the REST API (yeah, for hackers). Oh, and there is full-text search. It helps that the person behind Simpy is a Lucene developer.:)
Slashdot Mirror
More seriously, this means something like + Lucene[1] (or, more likely, lucene4c [2])
[1] http://lucene.apache.org/
[2] http://incubator.apache.org/lucene4c/
Ooops, wrong language. :)
That would be Iceland.
Is anyone going to be swimming?
I'd say the whole Mozilla team should get in the water and head for Island.
Life Jacket?
How about: Shark Bait
AdWords? Picasa? Blogger? Urchin? :)
Sure, you can tack search onto most things...
Anyone remembers the days when Google said how they want to focus on search and search only?
They are certainly not focusing on it so much any more, and are adapting to the market forces. Nice and agile.
Exactly. And that is exactly why I used Folksonomy as a parallel. That is exactly what happens there. Different people see the same thing and tag it as it fits them.
Long live progress of man kind!
I saw a piece about Ben Franklin on TV the other night. Apparently, at one point Ben Franklin applied the same kind of thinking to taxes. When the tax law no longer made sense, the tax law had to be changed.
Hm, this reminds me of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. That's not changing any time soon, is it?
Good urban architects don't impose pavements on people. They let people walk freely and observe the walking routes and patterns. Then they put down the walk-way, and that becomes the standard place to walk. You follow it until you find something better, a shortcut. Then you build a new pavement there.
Folksonomies[1] are hot these days, and they go against the rigid a priory classification that has been standard so far. That's another example of a shortcut. Because it's better (easier, faster, more natural, etc.) people are adopting it, and it's becoming a de facto standard. That's the new shortcut, and pavents are being built to facilitate this new route.
[1] simpy (use demo/demo for a demo)
Try Simpy (demo account: demo/demo). Del.icio.us can't do AND, OR, phrase and other types of searches with tags, which I find very limiting.
While it makes sense to pick the L line for this experiment, it's also important to note that L is reallly the only direct line that connects Williamsburg (Brooklyn) to Manhattan. If someting goes awry with that computerized L, a lot of Burg people will have to work from home.
Dumb lusers using a dumb OS during the day and the dumb computer letting a dumb OS abuse its CPU during the night? Sucky.
As an avid "sponge diver", I feel it is my responsibility to minimize the common misconception that sponges are plants. No, they are animals. Sorry if you rememeber this from elementary school, but sadly lots of people do not.
And fish are our friends, not food. I like them fried, steamed, etc.
I agree. There is a UI problem there. If you like social bookmarking, but would like a prettier and more usable UI, see the link in my sig. Judging from user's feedback, people like it better than delicious. And delirious... what that guy did, Steve Mallett, is VERY unethical, in IMHO. The explanation for the name choice is a transparent lie.
They do, and you can upload the bookmarks file, but that is not what social bookmarking services provide. Simpy (link below) will full-text index your bookmarks (think Google-for-my-bookmarks), it will let you pull your bookmarks into other services and applications (via the REST API), it will let you watch other people's links (via something called Topics), it will let you find people with similar interests, and so on. It's not only about your bookmarks being available from anywhere and it's not only about being social. It's both of those things and more.
It's not only about sharing. It's also about finding a needle in a stack. A phrase in a collection of several thousand bookmarks. How do you do that? See the link in my signature. Neither Delirious nor Delicious will really help you do that. And Delirious is a rip-off that should be boycotted.
It may be interesting to know that Nutch has been used for this purpose for a while now:
http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp. It may also be interesting to know that Yahoo! Labs hosts a Nutch demo search engine with a few hundred million indexed web pages.
Saving a few people a few Google visits:
Beagle
Also interesting:
Beagle CVS repo.
This is great news for Lucene, which is what's at the core of Beagle. More specifically, it is the port of Lucene (Java) to C# and .Net, which can be found at http://www.dotlucene.net/.
No it doesn't:
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
Mozilla, yes, but not Mac OS.
This is a somewhat OT post, but it is Firefox related. You can now invest in Firefox on Yahoo's Buzz market.
According to my logs, about 6.5% of Simpy[1] visitors are using MacOS. This number has been pretty steady over the last several months. The number of Linux user has been dropping slowly.
[1] http://www.simpy.com
If you think del.ico.us is cool, you should check out Simpy. Yes, it lets you tag your links, but also watch other users (think of delicious Inbox, but then multiply them by any number), subscribe to feeds, get your data from Simpy programmatically via the REST API (yeah, for hackers). Oh, and there is full-text search. It helps that the person behind Simpy is a Lucene developer. :)
Now imaging those 1M PCs infected with good viruses, viruses that crawl the web, crunch difficult problems, etc.
Virus hackers: write good viruses that infect even more PCs.