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Info Overload: The Problem
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on June 18, 2008
This will be post #1 of 2 posts on today's information overload problem and how we can cope.Information overload is no longer a joke. For those who suffered with this affliction, it never was, but now that there are real numbers attached to the problem, it has finally prompted companies to take action. Those numbers come from a recent study by a research company called Basex and they are to...
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Search Read Items in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on June 17, 2008
One of the most useful features that is missing in Google Reader is a way to search the items you've read in the past. This is useful, since Google Reader's search results are sorted by date and it may be difficult to find an article published two years ago.Depending on your preferred view, Google Reader defines read items differently: in the expanded view posts are marked as read when...
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Fixed: Undoing changes to Google Reader
via Edwin Khodabakchian by Edwin Khodabakchian on June 17, 2008
We just pushed out the 1.0.8 patch. I tries to address the main issue raised by people so far by a) offering a more visible warning and b) more importantly by allowing users to automatically undo all the changes made by the feedly welcome wizard.Here is what a) looks like:Here is a video of b)Thanks for the feedback. With hindsight this is something we should have stretch to put in before the...
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Better Terrain Representation in Google Maps
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on June 16, 2008
Mehmet K. noticed an update of the terrain layer from Google Maps, a feature that lets you view physical features, such as mountains and vegetation, with elevation shading.The fairly recent "terrain" feature in Google Maps now plots contours as well as hill shading. The only problem that I can see is that the contours are in feet in the UK whereas feet are only really used in the States. Even in...
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Musing about the Whose Data Is It question
via confused of calcutta by JP on June 17, 2008
I’m a pretty gregarious kind of person; I like spending time with people, stay awake all kinds of hours, travel quite a bit (on business as well as pleasure). So I know a lot of people, and a lot of people know me.Which means I land up with a lot of information about how to contact people: telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and the like. I store this information in all kinds of places, I guess...
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Network Interconnect: the Greatest Challenge in Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Systems
via Winning with Data: Aster Data Systems Blog by Tasso Argyros on June 17, 2008
I’m delighted to be able to bring to a guest post to our blog this week. David Cheriton, one of Aster Data Systems’ angel investors, leads the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University and has been known for making some smart investments. Below is what David has to say about the need to address the network interconnect in MPP systems - we hope this spurs some interesting...
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Intern Goutham in his new office space
via FriendFeed Blog by dan on June 17, 2008
Meet Goutham, who's just finished his first day interning at FriendFeed. He's joining us after completing his first year of graduate school at UC Irvine in computer science, where he's working on a project to recognize human actions in video by probabilistic models from video training data. Over the summer, he'll be lending his CS skills to help create and develop many features in...
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Bain Capital Ventures Joins the LinkedIn Team
via The LinkedIn Blog by Dan Nye on June 18, 2008
... announce that LinkedIn has raised additional funding from our original investors and added another world-class investor to our team. Bain Capital Ventures joins our existing group of investors - Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures - and leads this round of investment at a total of $53 million.* (LinkedIn has previously raised $27 million). This significant investment is ...
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Social gaming design - Bartle types versus Web 2.0 participation pyramid
via Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen by Andrew Chen on June 17, 2008
Spending time between two communitiesBy spending time in the "social gaming" space, it's interesting to see the intersection of approaches from both the consumer internet folks versus the traditional game folks. In addition to business models (ads versus subs/virtual goods) or product emphasis (functionality versus storytelling/characters/etc) or other topics, I'm particularly...
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Where are all the video startups? Maybe Content=King, online and offline
via Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen by Andrew Chen on June 17, 2008
I ran across this interesting diagram from comScore on the top video properties online: Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Unique ViewersApril 2008Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsSource: comScore Video Metrix Property Unique Viewers (000) Average Videos per Viewer Total Internet 134,471 81.6 Google Sites 83,720 49.7 Fox Interactive Media 52,046 10.7 Yahoo!...
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