Archive for March, 2007
For some reason I decided to plot the Debian release schedules. I was thinking that it would form an exponential growth curve – I was wrong (somewhat). From 1.2 to 3.1 it’s a somewhat exponential curve if you do smoothing. Below is the release schedule with the number of months from the pervious release. The [...]
This is a disgrace: Sources told 9NEWS the Red Team was able to sneak about 90 percent of simulated weapons past checkpoint screeners in Denver. In the baggage area, screeners caught one explosive device that was packed in a suitcase. However later, screeners in the baggage area missed a book bomb, according to sources. So [...]
Check this out.. (via SEC): Yahoo executive Susan Decker received a $850,000 bonus, Yahoo’s Farzad Nazem received a $700,000 bonus , and Yahoo’s Michael Callahan received a $200,000 bonus plus a salary increase for 2007 to $360,000. You could launch a startup with that kind of cash!
Did you know about tv.theonion.com? I didn’t. This might be just as cool as Fark TV. TV is doomed! >
As much as we really enjoy going beduin, it’s about time to get offices. We’re going to be hiring and Jonathan and I just need a steady place to hack. Did I also mention that I’m addicted to my 23″ LCD? (which isn’t compatible with Coffee to the People apparently) If anyone knows of any [...]
Courtney created this awesome picture on flickr as a protest to GMail’s outage on Tuesday. 3-27-07 . Never forget! Oddly enough this looks like my cat Zoe.
… went amazingly well. I was really happy with the way things worked out. We’ll probably have a few more announcements in the coming weeks but I just wanted to note that we already have two Ph.D. candidates performing research on the blogosphere using Spinn3r! Now that’s awesome! What’s interesting is that this is how [...]
Because of this I won’t be able to sleep tonight: What the team has done is add evolution to hardware (Norwegian), all hardware that you and I have used so far is made the creationism way, it’s made and can not be changed at runtime through evolution. All changes to existing hardware have to be [...]
We have two major announcements today. The first is Spinn3r (which is clearly the coolest): It’s been a lot of work but today we’re proud to announce the release of Spinn3r. Spinn3r is an web service that companies can use to index the blogosphere instead of having to write their own spider. Instead of spending [...]
This Blackbox project is a bit crazy. But maybe crazy good. I haven’t yet figured this out. Apparently they have competition. Rackable makes nice systems if you happen to find DC. If you could stack them like legos it might be interesting. I need buy one of these things and mount it to an 18 [...]
We seriously need MUNI fine insurance here in San Francisco: Here’s how it works. You pay 500 rupees (about $11) to join an organization of fellow ticketless travelers. Then, if you do get caught traveling without a ticket, you pay the fine to the authorities and then turn in your receipt to the ticketless-traveler organization [...]
Witness the perfect dress shirt. I bough this shirt 6 months ago and really love it. The material is simply amazing. It’s 97% polyester and 3% spandex. It’s made by 7diamonds but for some reason they’ve stopped selling it. I think I might actually buy a couple and keep it safely in storage in case [...]
This Justin.TV Police Raid is a bit interesting. Note that the prank phone call was the probable cause the police needed to enter his apartment. Civil libertarians playing at home will note that the police either need probable cause or a search warrant to enter private property. A bit disturbing that a random person no [...]
Captain America is dead. At least in the current Marvel timeline. What I found interesting is how he took a stand against he US government in favor of civil liberties. Apparently, terrorists attacked a school and in response the US government decided to require that all super heroes register their powers including their real identity. [...]
This is exactly how I feel about Hillary. I’m not certain I like Obama’s chances though but I certainly feel that Hillary has about as much shot as Kerry.
Hey James Phelps and anyone else over at SuperGlu. Please send us a Cease and Desist notice. We would LOVE the free publicity. Tailrank has a number of UI items in common with SuperGlu: The overall layout and functionality of your yget template is similar in look and feel to SuperGu’s software. First, the location [...]
Twitter has a post in the Chronicle this afternoon about their recent buzz. “At this stage, it drives me crazy every day,” Williams said. “On the other hand, if you never have scaling problems, then you spent too much time optimizing before you launched. There’s no fix. It’s always incremental.” This is a modification of [...]
Matt is right. Perhaps rather than trying to find better ways to hide from Google, they should just stop the questionable behaviour in the first place. This is one of the reasons we took an early stance by banning PPP on WordPress.com, and other blog hosts should do the same. The comments on this post [...]
I confess to not truly understanding Twitter. There. I admit it. But RIP Twitter? I don’t know. I didn’t initially get blogging. I didn’t get MySpace either. Both are obviously very successful but I think they’re a case of worse is better. Blogging replaced mailing lists. Blogging was worse but better. Mostly in ease of [...]
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Spinn3r News- Spinn3r Hiring Five new Engineers (and growing rapidly)
- Spinn3r Hiring Support Engineer
- NYTimes, on Memetracker, and Spinn3r
- Spinn3r at Real Time Stream Crunchup, RSS Speedups, and Startup Discounts
- Spinn3r Hiring Crawl Engineer
- Spinn3r 3.1 - Now with Twitter Support and Social Media Ranking
- Blogfa.com (Iranian Blog Network) Down Due to Iranian Protests and Civil Unrest?
- Papers using Spinn3r Data from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r talk from ICWSM 2009
- Spinn3r 3.0: New Features, New Architecture, New APIs - More Goodness
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