Miscellany: Trust, Loyalty, and Book Notes
1) Trust in social networksSeveral recent developments point to the big questions regarding trust in social networks. First, both Facebook…
Quasi-Property Rights: Associated Press and the “Hot News” Doctrine
Like many bloggers, I learn which topics are “hot” from aggregators like Techmeme–which in turn automatically aggregate news sources from…
Relevance is Not a Game Changer in Search
The top story on Techmeme as I write is Randall Stross ’s New York Times article, “Everyone Loves Google, Until…
Reflecting on Times Open
Like everyone else who managed to get into the standing room only event (or at least everyone I had a…
Finally factor of speech clearence (C50) and still more to go.
C50 (factor of clearness) determines sound clearness and clarity. It is computed as near echo/far echo ratio. The method is…
Speaking with Monty
Image via CrunchBaseLast week I spent some time talking to Michael “Monty“ Widenius (co-founder of MySQL) about his decision to…
Amazon Extends SimpleDB
Image via CrunchBase As I have blogged about before, I love companies that re-invent themselves to stay current rather than…
Rewrite the Rules
Where is it written that the status quo can’t be changed? I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I’m…
James Taylor Reports on Predictive Analytics World Some trends:…
James Taylor Reports on Predictive Analytics World Some trends: There is now about 100Gb stored per person on the planet…
SOA 2009: Do we need architects or firefighters?
ZDNet blogging colleague Ian Findley just posted an interesting question that reflects ever-shifting priorities in today’s rough-and-tumble economy: “When the…
