The papers are out for WWW2009 (and have been for a bit), but I’ve only just gotten a chance to start looking at them. First of all, kudos to the ePrints people for improving the presentation of conference proceedings. This is a lot easier than having to do a Google Scholar search for each paper [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
Books for Christmas
Posted: 4 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: books, christmas, collective intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, data visualization, evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, string algorithms, web 2.0
I got most of the books I wanted the most for Christmas this year. It was a great haul that will keep me busy for a while. Among them were: Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data [...]
Twitrratr
Posted: 27 October 2008 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, data, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, twitter, web 2.0
Twitrratr is a new service that attempts to do sentiment analysis on Twitter (follow me while you’re at it). According to their about page, they started off by tracking opinions on Obama but have since expanded to any term. Enter a keyword and it searches twitter for occurrences. It then assigns a sentiment to each post [...]
Dapper
Posted: 3 June 2008 in UncategorizedTags: acm, dapper, information trapping, rss feeds, tech news, web 2.0, website tracking
My friend Israel clued me in on Dapper a few weeks ago. I have played around with them a very small bit, but that was all it took to recognize their potential. The idea is simple, the implementation not so much. When you browse videos on YouTube, the layout of search results are all the [...]
Predictify!
Posted: 11 December 2007 in UncategorizedTags: crowd wisdom, futures markets, money, predictify, predictions, startups, web 2.0
I wrote about Predictify a while back. It’s basically a website that pays users for predicting world events. When I first wrote about them, I presented the sample question: “How long will Michael Vick’s sentence be?” Well, the verdict came down and my prediction was very close. I predicted 24 months and the dirty bastard [...]
