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January 2009 Archives

Wednesday, 28th January 2009

Synop.it: A Different Take on Cataloguing the Web

Tagging. It has fundamentally changed the way we find and manage content on the Web. Take a page, an image, or a chunk of media, surround it with keywords, and allow others to do the same. Then mix that tagged content with more tagged content and suddenly context starts to form. But tagging, for all its benefits, will only get you so far. Between…

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5 Problems of Recommender Systems

Earlier this week we posted a Guide to Recommender Systems, as part of our series on recommendation technologies. In this post we look at some of the challenges in building or deploying a recommender system. And yes, Napoleon Dynamite is one of them. This week an event called Recked was held in Amsterdam, aimed at engineers interested in these…

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Blogging Days May Be Waning at AOL's Weblogs, Inc.

A source close to AOL has informed ReadWriteWeb that it will be shutting down and relaunching the Weblogs Inc. "Lifestyle Blogs" as online magazines. These blogs make up roughly 1/4 of what remains of the Weblogs Inc. network that AOL acquired four years ago. From the heady days of carrying the flag of the blog revolution in 2003 and 2004, to a…

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Expert System Brings Semantic Smarts to Advertising

Expert System is a perhaps little known "semantic intelligence" company; but it has 15 years of experience in the tech industry, 115+ employees and is bringing in a very solid $12 Million a year in revenues from over 100 corporate and government clients (at 40% growth over the past two years). The Italian company's core technology is…

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Google Announces Measurement Lab: New Initiative to Expose Traffic Shaping and Throttling by ISPs

A number of ISPs have lately started to clamp down on peer-to-peer networks and are actively restricting heavy usage of 'unlimited' connections. For users, however, there is very little transparency in this process and it can be very hard to figure out if an ISP is actually actively throttling a connection or preventing certain applications from…

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