May 2011
On the dangers of personalization » Federated Search Blog
(via)How personalization of news feed by Facebook or search engines can be dangerous for our society and democracy.
December 2010
Top 10 Ways to Find Better Answers Online (that Aren't Google)
How to find information in other places than Google.
July 2010
Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet « Aza on Design
by 1 otherFuture Firefox huge feature to organize tabs in groups, share tabs, focus on a specific group. All done in HTML5, CSS and JS.
May 2010
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis | PlayNice.ly
(via)PlayNice.ly is entirely based on a data-structure server called Redis. Redis is one of several new key-value databases which break away from traditional relational data architecture. It is simple, flexible, and blazingly fast. So why not use the tools we have already?
April 2010
Xoopit Transforms Your Gmail Inbox into a Multimedia Haven - Digital Videos - Lifehacker
Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox extension Xoopit turns Gmail into a robust, searchable media management tool for every piece of media that comes through your inbox. By indexing every attachment as well as every link to photos and videos from sites like Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube, Xoopit allows you to easily search for and find any picture or video and view it from directly inside Gmail.
★ bcdef.org ★ » Antenna
(via)Shouldn’t finding radio stations online be easier? Based on the Adobe AIR runtime, Antenna tries to alleviate that. Using a vast list of stations combined with a map interface, you can discover, listen to, and switch between thousands of stations effortlessly. Search is possible by country or genre, or just by clicking on a location on the map. Beyond that you have a history of recently-listened stations and can even rate the ones you like and return to them easily later.
February 2010
ElasticSearch - Your Data, Your Search
One of the main aspects when working with business data is to try and have all different components in an ever evolving system to understand the same data structure/format (or as close as possible). This was the main drive for me when developing the data model ElasticSearch supports and the different search and interaction with the data model once indexed.
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