MyStrands

Just found this one: (from their site) MyStrands develops behavior-based recommendation technologies, to help people discover and organize content, and share tastes with others. More. They’ve announced that they’ll be doing a showcase for Nokia using the MyStrands Social Player, which can be seen in action here in a YouTube clip.

Blog of the Day: Marc Andreesen

Wow. This is a great blog. You most likely know Marc’s backstory, so I won’t go through that here. In just 12 days, he has made some great posts:  Bubbles on the brain Why there’s no such thing as Web 2.0 How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with Analyzing the Facebook Platform, [...]

Blog of the Day: Digital Backcountry

On my RSS feed since day one at the new gig: Ryan Stewart’s blog on rich internet applications. Sure, if you are at all interested in the RIA space, you know who Ryan is, but if you’re new to the RIA world, check him out. He’s the guy you read if you’re into RIA stuff. [...]

The issue of “did you mean?”

As someone that works at a company called matchmine, I completely understand one of the things that NLP search engines like Powerset are trying to do. As an example, before I was hired, I submitted my resume, and promptly forgot the name of the company. Though I could have looked through my sent mail and [...]

FineTune Widget

FineTune is now available as an iGoogle widget. (via mashable) I tried it out and nothing happened.

Blog of the Day: Powerset

Powerset is a search engine based on Natural Language Processing, and I love their blog. I’ll tell you why. The Company: They’re not out to destroy Google. They’re not trying to be an also-ran. They are out to solve one problem: the idea that the way we talk and the way we search are not [...]

Best Clever Headline About Adobe AIR

So, Adobe announced that Apollo is now going to be known as AIR. That name is just begging for people to write clever puns, and that’s exactly what’s happened. Here are my nominations for Best Clever Headline About Adobe AIR: Adobe Launches Apollo Into AIR- Tom Sanders Apollo Downed as Adobe Takes to the AIR- [...]

Gizmodo Liveblogging, new web site and more.

Well, it seems like the internet is deserted today. That’s because everyone is at WWDC. Gizmodo is doing a great job of liveblogging the keynote (with no need to refresh the page). I’ve been a slacker of a blogger for the last week as we rolled out a new version of our site at matchmine. [...]

TagsAhoy.com

(Via Joho The Blog) I just saw TagsAhoy, which is simply “All Your Tags In One Place.” I signed up, and as advertised, the site allows you to “search all your tags, across different sites, from one location.” Currently TagsAhoy allows you to search tags from del.ic.ious, Flickr, Gmail, LibraryThing, Connotea, and Squirl. I like [...]

StumblePorn

From Kristen Nicole at Mashable: StumblePorn – StumbleUpon for Porn