I’ve used Foursquare several times a day for over 2 months now. Social networks and other types of community have come and gone so often that when something new comes along, we can all be forgiven for being tired of it before even trying it. It would however be unforgivable for anyone working [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google Inc.’
December 7th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in Search engines
10 papers on personalization (PSearch)
Google announced this week that they would start personalising search results, even for users that are not signed into a Google service at the time. It has caused a consistent flow of posts from the blogosphere and quite a lot of comments as well which show that there is a gap in knowledge at some [[...]
August 14th, 2009 - 8:25 am § in TWIG
This week in Geekdom – R05$
Greetings, welcome to another edition of TWIG. I do hope that you have had an excellent week and that you have been able to play with some fun new gadgets. I’ve been eyeing up some Android phones and playing with all the different opportunities they present. I wish they came prettier, like the[...]
June 11th, 2009 - 2:04 pm § in Information retrieval
Extracting meaning from content: progress
I’m excited when I come across news like this because it’s my area of research. MIT covered this and presented TextRunner, a system capable of extracting meaning from billions of documents. It is not new, but it is working a lot better now which is why it’s exciting. It’s act[...]
