Archive for May, 2003

I ranted for a few pages about my inability to keep up with all the knowledge we’re aggregating–check it out if you’re interested. It may be a common problem if our project is as successful as we hope.

We’re posting a lot of links on here, and it might be nice just to have a list of shared bookmarks somewhere. I know this was all the rage a few years ago, but did anyone come up with a really slick solution. Here’s a list of a few possibilities if anyone’s interested in […]

You need to check out memigo which has many elements we’ve been dreaming/talking of, including collaborative filtering, ratings, peer recommendations, RSS integration and many other wonderful things.
On daypop you can see bursting news topics from around the world.
NewsIsFree lets you easily post news article to a blog using the Blogger API. Note that Blogger […]

“Just hit 2580 on your mobile phone, aim it at any loud music for 30 seconds and we’ll txt you back the name of the track and artist”shazam
Seems amazing. Any way to try it? Competitors?

Wunderkind

25May03

To do RSS and other cool XML things, we need to meet the guy in the middle of this picture. This is the generation which comes after us. Look out.

What’s the deal with reporters and authors using how many times a word occurs in Google as some kind of significant metric? What does it signify? This precious number is sometimes taken as a popularity rating, sometimes just to indicate how overwhelming the quantity of web information is out there, and intriguingly sometimes used to […]

Why we buy

23May03

“One answer is to think motion. Mr. Paco Underhill in his book “Why We Buy” documents that a moving digital menu board in a fast food chain was read by 48% of customers, compared to only 17% of customers that noted a non-moving version of the same sign. Motion is arresting. In an otherwise static […]

The man dreams about the CF vision way back in 1996.
Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet in 1973 and founded 3Com Corp. in 1979.
You guys are out-blogging me…I need to catch up.

Comments now possible. You can now post comments on entries in this blog. It’s not the greatest, but it’s an experiment and that’s what we’re all about here.
[Listening to: Fortunate Son - CCR ]

Dylan pointed out this article on product reviews from the always-reputable news source The Onion. I won’t say “I told you so” (whoops) but I think we need review functionality on events@stanford … don’t want to fall behind!


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