A couple months ago, Daniel Tunkelang posted an algorithm on his blog that attempts to emulate PageRank for Twitter. I implemented a toy version I dubbed TunkRank, and then suggested that name on his blog. It got some traction, so I figured what the heck and decided to implement it on TunkRank.com. Now, there appeared [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
What is your TunkRank?
Posted: 5 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: activerecord, algorithms, attention economy, capistrano, daniel tunkelang, data collection, data mining, influence, merb, nginx, pagerank, rails, retweet, ruby, social graph, social networking, tunkrank, twitter, twitter rankings, web apps
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NASA Twittering
Posted: 30 October 2008 in UncategorizedTags: epitaphs, marketing, mars, nasa, phoenix, probes, rovers, social networking, space, space exploration, twitter, winter, wired
@MarsPhoenix is a twitter success story. It’s also a NASA success story. Oh and also a scientific success for all it has done on Mars. As six months of night approach, the Phoenix probe was slowly shutting down systems to finish analyses. A couple of days ago, a dust storm diminished the day time charging [...]
friendfeed
Posted: 12 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: friendfeed, information diaspora, information overload, social networking, web 2.0
After hearing about it for weeks, I caved and decided to check out friendfeed last night [and again, ht @dpn]. In previous posts I mentioned something I like to call the information diaspora. This is the phenomenon created by posting all sorts of personal information about your likes, dislikes, thoughts, opinions, etc all over the [...]
Plurk-or-Tweet
Posted: 1 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: downtime, plurk, social networking, twitter, web 2.0
Is it Hallowe’en already? A fellow nlp blogger (and twitterer) pointed me to Plurk just a few minutes ago. I have been messing with Twitter’s api over the past couple days, which hasn’t been as easy as you’d think since they are suffering from massive growing pains. Fetching the public timeline takes between 5-30 seconds. [...]
A Few Random Thoughts
Posted: 19 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: arthur c clarke, authors, books, family, leadership, movies, ohio, sci-fi, social networking, spam, twitter, web 2.0
Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday. He touched many lives through his writing and his ideas had an impact on me at an early age with short stories like “The Nine Billion Names of God” and movies based on his books like 2010 (which I saw in the theater) and later 2001 (which [...]
Become my friend on Netflix. I think it helps that you are actually already on Netflix. :P
Emperor Zuckerberg I
Posted: 3 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, information diaspora, mark zuckerberg, opensocial, plaxo, robert scoble, roman empire, social networking
The Roman occupation of Judea (Israel) during the first century AD was disrupted in 70 AD when the Jewish people revolted. Rome, being a kick-ass military power, put down this rebellion. However, they couldn’t let the Jews get away with this attempt at self-rule, which might encourage other provinces to do the same. The new, [...]
RateBeer 2.0
Posted: 22 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: beer, collaborative filtering, craft beer, netflix prize, ratebeer, recommender systems, social networking, web 2.0
I am a fan of good beer. In this post I am going to talk about my ideas for how to improve websites that offer ratings for different varieties of beer, and how I think recommender systems would improve their service. Why I care Whenever I’m asked what kind of beer I like, I experience [...]
Tweets for Twits
Posted: 18 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, information diaspora, social networking, twitter, web 2.0
Well, after many frustrating months of waiting for Twitter to finally fix their gmail contacts import feature, I have finally done it! Surprise, only two contacts were signed up — and that’s two more than I expected. However, one of those is a professor who probably only checked them out because they’re using his technology [...]
Google Reader Shared Items
Posted: 16 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: feeds, google, google reader, rss, shared items, social networking
Google Reader recently added some social networking features. You can now add your friends’ shared items to your feeds. Up til now I haven’t used the shared items feature since it didn’t really make sense to send people a link to my shared items and expect them to give a crap. Now it’s easier to [...]
