So I’m at Hacking RSS by Dawn Foster. She’s got some more stats about how much data we have in the world. Seems to be a big topic this year here at SXSW. [Incidentally she's got some stats on her slides if you'd like to look. I didn't scribble down the numbers.] We’re talking about [...]
Category Archives: Information management
Recommendation Engines: Going Beyond the Social Graph
March 13, 2011 – 4:59 pm
Hunter Walk. Leads product team at YouTube. Tom Conrad. Product engineering at Pandora. Garrett Camp. Cofounder of Stumble Upon. Lior Ron from Google’s Hotpot project. Works on local recommendation engine. Liz Gannes, journalist, moderating. Conrad: Pandora has 8 billion thumbs up/thumbs down data, completely contextualized. Walk says that YouTube knows a lot about where their [...]
SXSW: Todd Park from HHS on the Power of Open Health Data
March 13, 2011 – 3:32 pm
Interesting…Todd Park introduces himself as the CTO and “entrepreneur in residence” at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. I think his point is that his background is tech entrepreneurship. He says, “That may lead you to ask what the hell I’m doing working for the federal government.” My notes below are paraphrases [my [...]
IA vs. UX vs. content strategy vs. your name here
February 21, 2011 – 9:17 pm
There’s an interesting editorial over at the fall 2010 issue of the Journal of IA, which I do like reading. Eric Reiss spends some time trying to place information architecture, user experience and content strategy in terms of each other. I don’t think it’s an entirely worthless endeavor, but in my opinion, he’s bitten off [...]
I need a sharable calendar with tags
January 7, 2011 – 1:20 pm
Dear programmers of the world, Here’s a problem that seems to need solving*. Please, my friends and I beg of you, please help. My employees and I use Google Calendar. It’s great, because it integrates with Tungle.me and iCal and our phones and everything else we want to use to view calendars. Each of us [...]
Quora: Lessons in community development
January 6, 2011 – 9:08 pm
My trial-by-fire in online community management came just over 10 years ago, when we launched SmallBusiness.com. I’ve thought about that experience a lot in the past few weeks, as Quora has exploded among the tech community. [Find me on Quora here.] When we were preparing for the real launch of SmallBusiness.com, we spent weeks scouring [...]
Wonderful video on information
January 3, 2011 – 3:18 pm
You’ve got to make the time to watch this hour-long video on stats, information and the power they give us. If you’ve been hanging around the web for long at all, you’ve likely seen some of Hans Rosling’s and the Gapminder Foundation’s work before, but I love how this video makes clear how information is [...]
Context Is Always Critical
March 14, 2010 – 9:54 pm
Got into an interesting back-channel discussion today in the South by Southwest session called “Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web.” I did write another post on the panel, so I won’t go into the details here, except to say that I found the backchannel more thought-provoking than the panel itself. So when I got [...]
Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web
March 14, 2010 – 3:31 pm
Wow. There are a lot of speakers here, and they aren’t all listed in the program….and there’s no way I’ll get them all straight. I’ll see what I can do. Gil Elbaz, founder/CEO of Factual. They simplify access to clean, reliable data for publishers. Structure and clean data. Danny Sullivan, Searchengineland Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group. [...]