I’ve been fascinated with the problem of improving search results for a long time, but have never really had a chance to try any ideas out on an actual dataset. Recently my dad suggested that I grab the data for the netflix prize and play with it. This had not occurred to me before, but [...]
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OpenID, and the posts you make
When I use my OpenID to comment somewhere, most sites list my URL in the comment, but they all add a rel=nofollow attribute to it. This is clearly the correct behavior, as anything else would encourage spam. However, there’s not any way (in many implementations) to tell the difference between an OpenID comment, and a [...]
Music Archive Project – Resources
I’ve recently been working on a tool to allow multiple users to maintain and contribute to an online library of music.
I was overjoyed to find MusicBrainz. I first looked at the offerings from Gracenote (owners of the CDDB) but was less than thrilled with the idea of paying for the service. MusicBrainz provides a free [...]
linking bookmarks to searches – automated tagging
Simple idea:
You usually get to a site you wish to bookmark via direct search. You can use those search terms as a starting set of tags for the bookmark. This could happen automatically if you have something like google toolbar installed which tracks your searches.
If you arrive at a site several links away from a [...]
