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22 June 2009
Google Adds Facebook Friends to Results
by srcmax
I’m not seeing any special markup in the Facebook profile page, but could this be Google’s “Rich Snippets” feature in action, as announced at this year’s Searchology conference?
16 June 2009
Spezify
by gregg
& 1 other
Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.
We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.
We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.
15 June 2009
HubLog: Annotation of Scientific Articles
by parmentierf
I made a web-based interface for curating the results of entity extraction from scientific papers.
It converts XML files to text, passes the text through machine annotators, lets curators add/delete/modify the annotations, then splices the annotations back into the original XML file.
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12 June 2009
uClassify | View Classifier
by parmentierf
(via)
Classifies the language of a text by looking on about 4000 commonly used words per language. It works best with clean texts but can also be used for HTML pages. For reliable results HTML pages need more text content (since HTML often contains English words and comments).
11 June 2009
The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals
by srcmax
Not only are video results increasingly common in Google's search results, but your videos stand a much better chance than your text pages of being shown on the first results page.
Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09
by sbrothier
(via)
As you may know, Apple added Flickr uploading to iPhoto ‘09. As you may guess, I was a little perturbed at this since I pay my mortgage by selling, er, a Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto.
I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration in iPhoto ‘09. Here are the results of my investigation. Be aware as you read that this is the result of a morning’s click-around investigation and not months of serious use. I will do my best to give an honest assessment of what is in iPhoto ‘09, and you’ve already read my full disclosure in the previous paragraph.
08 June 2009
Protocol Reference - Google Data APIs - Google Code
by holyver
This document describes the protocol used by the Google Data APIs, including information about what a query looks like, what results look like, and so on.
06 June 2009
Satya Nadella Keynote At Bing Search Summit
by kuroyagi
Nadella said “only 1 in 4 queries deliver successful results.”
05 June 2009
Home - OpenSearch
by parmentierf
& 3 others
OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results.
04 June 2009
Official Google Blog: Square your search results with Google Squared
by srcmax
(via)
Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed.
03 June 2009
6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search - Google Beware
by fredgood
sers have the option of getting answers from their network of people who they actually trust. On the other hand, Google gives you a page of links compiled by their quality algorithm. Sure, Google returns pretty good search results most of the time, but they’re impersonal and sometimes irrelevant to what you really want. Getting in touch with your network via Twitter is the best way to get reliable information you can trust. For example, if you had a question about life in the NBA, would you rather ask Shaquille O’Neal on Twitter or type a question in Google?
02 June 2009
Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard
by srcmax
Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics (see screenshot above).
28 May 2009
Exposure Fusion: What is it? How does it Compare to HDR? How Do I Do It?
by mozkart
(via)
Exposure Fusion Software
At this stage Exposure Fusion is still in its infancy, so there’s only a handful of programs to choose from.
Enfuse is the primary tool for Exposure Fusion at the moment, and although it is a command line utility, there are ‘‘droplets’‘ (batch files) available that you can drag and drop a series of images onto to create a fused image.
Ingemar Bergmark has produced a GUI for it, not surprisingly called EnfuseGui, which can be a little easier if you aren’t too keen on command lines. If you’ve got Lightroom then one of the more convenient ways is to use the plugin. It still uses the command line utility in the background (you have to tell it where your enfuse.exe is), but the process looks more refined. However, the plugin is donation-ware so its limited to 500px final images until you donate to get the full version. There is currently no plugin for Photoshop. If you’re into photo stitching then PTgui and Hugin may be of interest to you. These programs utilise Exposure Fusion by stitching and fusing bracketed sequences together, with some pretty nice results.
Simple RDFication of SPARQL SELECT results with RDFa - benjamin nowack's blog
by karlcow
how RDFa can be used to support this "Repurpose-Republish" loop.
24 May 2009
22 May 2009
Privacy Diffusion on the Web: A Longitudinal Perspective | Semantic Web Dog Food
by karlcow
or the last few years we have studied the diffusion of private information about users as they visit various Web sites triggering data gathering aggregation by third parties. This paper reports on our longitudinal study consisting of multiple snapshots of our examination of such diffusion over four years. We examine the various technical ways by which third-party aggregators acquire data and the depth of userrelated information acquired. We study techniques for protecting against this privacy diffusion as well as limitations of such techniques. We introduce the concept of secondary privacy damage. Our results show increasing aggregation of user-related data by a steadily decreasing number of entities. A handful of companies are able to track users' movement across almost all of the popular Web sites. Virtually all the protection techniques have significant limitations highlighting the seriousness of the problem and the need for alternate solutions.
Yahoo Placemaker Test
by karlcow
Simply enter a URL in the following form and submit it. Placemaker then gives you the locations. Results can vary, so re-load the page if needed.
19 May 2009
Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database with the Google Visualisation API Query Language « OUseful.Info, the blog…
by srcmax
& 2 others
, 1 comment
Over the weekend, I started exploring the Google Visualisation API Query Language, which is reminiscent of SQL (if that means anything to you!). This language provides a way of interrogating a data source such as a public online Google spreadsheet and pulling back the results of the query as JSON, CSV, or an HTML table.
17 May 2009
Hauschka - Morgenrot on Vimeo
by karlcow
Jeff Desom made this music video for Hauschka by animating photos from the 20th century that he found in the Library of Congress. An innovative technique (with beautiful, haunting results). More about making the video here.film by Jeff Desom
music by Hauschka
Song issued from the album "Ferndorf" released by FatCat Records
16 May 2009
Marking up structured data - Webmasters/Site owners Help
by karlcow
& 1 other
Structured data makes the web a better place. It also helps Google better understand and present your page in search results.
13 May 2009
Commands using rmdir | commandlinefu.com
by Adri1bip
(via)
Terminal - Commands using rmdir - 2 results
28 April 2009
26 April 2009
Ubuntu -- Package Search Results -- unetbootin
by tadeufilippini
(via)
Package unetbootin
* jaunty (utils): installer of Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive [universe]
304-1: amd64 i386
* karmic (utils): installer of Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive [universe]
304-1: amd64 i386
23 April 2009
Inquisitor. Instant web search for Firefox.
by gregg
& 2 others
Inquisitor... speeds up your searches like no other.
Start typing and websites appear instantly, along with suggestions to help refine your search.
Inquisitor understands you, learning and tailoring your results as you search. You can also add more search engines with customized keyboard shortcuts.
Inquisitor is fast, smart, flexible... and free!
