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29Dec/061

Improving the performance of social networks with real world data

Today’s online social networks have done wonders in connecting you with what matters to you, given that they have very little data to go on. And this data generally requires you to painfully input it at each site, resulting in a proprietary lock-in. We manually add our friends and interests in a binary fashion that [...]

27Dec/064

Cleaning out my closet; reheating old visions

Taking advantage of the semi-annual quiet time, I’ve been cleaning out my flat and unearthed my business school application that I made almost exactly 7 years ago. That fact alone is pretty scary. It’s always fun to look back and see what one writes on these things. Happily, we’re not held accountable to these flowery [...]

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18Dec/060

Mashups need microformats

Mash potatoes need bangers like mashups need microformats. Ok, not the best analogy in the world, but still. Mashups hold the much-vaunted promise of personalized, tailored services that might conceivably actually be what people want to use a particularly large problem on the mobile. These two posts clearly demonstrated to me the importance of structured [...]

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4Dec/061

Making your work seem like the customers’ fun

Google’s ImageLabeler is a cute game that exploits people’s competitive nature – racing to tag an image with the same words as your online partner – for some spurious reward (to be on a score sheet) and results in improving Google’s labelling of images. Very smart. In a similar vein, LikeBetter lets you work to [...]

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