October 27, 2005
Google News Report USA Score
Fetch headlines from Google News on a schedule, then rank
headlines by factors:
* appearance day and time,
* prominence on the google news page,
* number of appearances,
* others;
weighted to estimate referer traffic these links bring to their
source.
Listed are the top scoring stories in recent time periods, followed
by a ranking of sources. More detailed reports are linked-to at the
bottom of each table.
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October 16, 2005
Explain ia: An Exercise in Clarity
What exactly is an “Information Architect” or “Information Architecture” ?
Explain it in 10 words or less. And then, take all the words you
need to explain the difference between an information architect and
a designer (not an artist, but a designer).
-- 37signals
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October 14, 2005
housing map 2
census track vs google map mash up.
via Google Maps Mania. Previously: Craigslist housing map mashup.
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September 30, 2005
Housing Map
Housing Maps
the criagslist - googlemap mash up.
See also housing maps by census.
via
link paul k @inf greed
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September 05, 2005
Find Articles
findarticles is the poor man's Lexis/Nexis.
Can't find it there ? Try MozBot instead.
Posted by omor at 10:49 PM | Comments (0)
August 02, 2005
43folders
43folders for power users and alpha geeks.
Today's tactical equivalent to Seven habits of highly effective people.
Posted by omor at 07:12 PM | Comments (0)
July 11, 2005
GIS realtime: BusMonster Seattle
GIS realtime for commuting, BusMonster (motd) maps routes through Seattle.
With help by Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Program at UW.
Compare to the hideous 511.org in San Francisco
Posted by omor at 02:19 PM | Comments (0)
July 10, 2005
Mozbot, France's prettier Google
Search for stylized facts or for coruscation at Mozbot, France's prettier Google.
Posted by omor at 01:30 PM | Comments (0)
June 24, 2005
Riander, reDUX
Riander, travails of a user experience and user-centred desisgn
consultant. Who better to run DUX, aka Design for User Experience ?
Posted by omor at 02:35 AM | Comments (0)
June 21, 2005
Tom Peters
The excellent Tom Peters offers pithy business advice for the post-modern
economy. Well organized site.
Posted by omor at 07:47 PM | Comments (0)
June 19, 2005
Google Scholar
Research citations
Galegroups's review.
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June 11, 2005
Tag Soup
Clay Shirky on tagsonomy: tags are cheap reader (not author/editor)
supplied metadata, having (at least) these characteristics:
1. It’s made by someone else
2. Its creation requires very few learned rules
3. It’s produced out of self-interest (Corrolary: it is guilt-free)
4. Its value grows with aggregation
5. It does not break when there is incomplete or degenerate data
And this is what’s special about tagging. Lots of people tag links on
del.icio.us.
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June 06, 2005
Tagsonomy
Tagsonomy by del.icio.us offers well-categorized ontology of topic links.
Posted by omor at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
April 10, 2005
Craig's List and Google Maps
Craig's List and Google Maps merge, and the result is good.
See for rent and for sale listings plotted on a map,
pins colourized to show availability of pictures,
drill down the matches to a feature set or price band.
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March 10, 2005
Leaving Asilomar
Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture is now Information Architecture Institute.
Posted by omor at 10:35 PM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2005
Daou Report
Daou Report ia blog portal with refreshed ledes.
Mostly political; page layout shows left is left and right is right.
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January 08, 2005
Clusty headlines
Clusty headlines are groupable into clusters
by reader-specified criterion.
Clusty shows Stylized Facts as in these clusters:
Market (30)
⇨Growth (17)
⇨Statistical, Empirical (10)
⇨Interest Rates (9)
⇨Bank, Research (7)
⇨Volatility, Modeling (7)
⇨Behavior, Generate (6)
⇨Generate The Stylized Facts (5)
⇨Economic Blog (3)
Building a Smarter Search Engine"
Business Week (01/04/05); Green, Heather
Search engine startup Vivisimo uses artificial intelligence technology
developed at Carnegie Mellon University to organize search results
more neatly. The company launched a consumer metasearch service called
Clusty three months ago that pulls results from other search engines,
then uses its own technology to cluster those results according to
major themes. A search for "seal" will produce the normal mix of
references in the main results--including pages referring to the sea
mammal, Seal the musician, Wet Seal-brand clothing, and Navy SEALS--as
well as folders on each of those topics on the left-hand side. By
opening the appropriate folder, users will be able to drill down to
find more relevant results. Clusty is a good tool for managing a
growing amount of online information and makes search technology
easier to use, says Search Engine Showdown operator Greg Notess.
Analysts say Vivisimo faces an enormous challenge in the general
search space as much larger companies such as Google, Microsoft, and
Yahoo roll out more features, such as desktop and multimedia search.
Although Vivisimo has been profitable for the past two years, it will
need to focus on niche search markets in order to grow in the consumer
search space. Vivisimo's unique search technology could be used to
produce superior results for health care, travel, or other
industry-specific searches. Founder Raul Valdes-Perez, who started
Vivisimo with two other CMU researchers and a $1 million grant from
the National Science Foundation, says Clusty will gain market share
because it makes Web searching easier. Vivisimo also provides
enterprise search tools and licenses its technology to popular
consumer Web sites.
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November 20, 2004
scholar.google.com searches refereed publications
scholar.google.com searches refereed publications.
Sample search mortgage prepayment modlleing.
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November 10, 2004
Jakob says usable Bush wins election
Jakob says usable Bush wins election [via Kos]
NB. not www.georgewbush.org.
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