April 2011
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new phrase i learned this week - sugar shorts
“If you’re looking to make your app smarter and you think machine learning is more complicated than making three API calls, then you’re reading the right blog post.”
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Prediction API: Every app a smart app - The official Google Code blog
This is super cool but scares me a bit. Google’s insatiable appetite for data is staggering.
60,000+ Documented UFO Sightings With Text Descriptions And Metadata
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infochimps.com
This API needs to be mashed up w/ Foursquare.
“This is fundamentally a different kind of social news experience. I haven’t seen or used anything quiet like it before. Rather than me reading what you tweet, I read the stream that you have selected to read — your inbound stream. It’s almost as if I’m leaning over your shoulder — reading what you read, or looking at your book shelves: it allows me to understand how the people I follow construct their world.”
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news.me is amazing - certainly the UI. I haven’t really experienced the rest of it in a meaningful way yet - but all signs point to impressive. I love the idea of reading over somebody”s shoulder. We did this w/ the social layer on NYTimes, Timespeople, a couple years ago. See what I am seeing from the people I follow on NYTimes. It wasn’t the most loved feature but I thought it did a great job around discovery. Congrats to all involved in making news.me happen.
“When Jeff Hammerbacher laments that “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” I think he’s falling for a technocratic idea long discredited, one that only engineers still believe: perfectibility.”
—Reaction Wheel: Advertising, the Fallacy of Perfectibility, and the Best Minds of My Generation
MMX Realtime →
labs.metamx.com
RTB exchanges
I am not sure people outside the AdTech world are paying enough attention to RTB. Cool interface too.
The Go Programming Language Blog: Gobs of data →
blog.golang.org
Even the smartest people on these things continue to re-implement.
Türkçe konuşan kullanıcıların dikkatine!
Tumblr yeni Türkçe yerelleştirmemiz için beta testi yapmaya hazır ve bu konuda yardımınıza ihtiyacımız var. Türkçe Tumblr’ı test etmek ister misiniz? Buradan bana ulaşın!
Introducing developer drop-ins →
guardian.co.uk
Throughout May, the Guardian is opening its offices to developers as part of our commitment to the developer community. Each day from 4pm, you’ll be able to turn up with your laptop and coffee, meet other developers, collaborate on projects or simply have somewhere to work for a few hours.
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“Crystal Swiggett, who worked as a server in a suburban Cleveland Red Lobster for two and a half years, noted that black guests kept the joint jumping.”
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ah the old “joint jumping”
Looks like the New York Times finally started posting to Tumblr... →
tmagazine.tumblr.com
…but I think they’re missing a reblog button.
Was that intentional or is it a bug?
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