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Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:00:26 GMT

RAW milk and SAAS for small business

I have been slowly building this client portfolio as more of these small operators in technical specialty verticals are being screwed by enterprise...

I have been slowly building this client portfolio as more of these small operators in technical specialty verticals are being screwed by enterprise software companies, and need alternatives to be knit together. Some went the SAAS route before I came around to help them. Raw milk baby - get a bad cup and you may never try again. SAAS. Shame.

By abm

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:29:30 GMT

The Problem of Wanna

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Mr. Karp conjoins GM's monumental myopia (ignoring anything having to do with advanced drive trains) with the newspaper business' total lack of a new...

Mr. Karp conjoins GM's monumental myopia (ignoring anything having to do with advanced drive trains) with the newspaper business' total lack of a new media game plan. I see the common thread - It's called, "Wanna".

By abm

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:32:25 GMT

And Now For Something Completely Different

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

The print version of Wired magazine points to GraphJam – the equivalent of LOLCats for data miners?

By Matthew Hurst

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:39:18 GMT

Cat retirement homes, spam tortilla sandwiches, and the dubious relevancy of Gmail “contextual” ads

Text Technologies

I’m a big fan of outsourcing one’s email to Google, and then continuing to use one’s favorite email client. (I’ve never switched away from Eudora.)...

I’m a big fan of outsourcing one’s email to Google, and then continuing to use one’s favorite email client. (I’ve never switched away from Eudora.) Accordingly, I rarely use the actual Gmail interface – except when traveling and hence away from my desktop computer. For the past week I have been on vacation, logging [...]

By Curt Monash

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:02:29 GMT

Micro- and full-length-blogging use cases overlap greatly

Text Technologies

Steven Hodson ranted on Mashable that Twitter is not a micro-blogging tool. His case was, in essence, “Blogs are thoughtful and Twitter isn’t, so...

Steven Hodson ranted on Mashable that Twitter is not a micro-blogging tool. His case was, in essence, “Blogs are thoughtful and Twitter isn’t, so the two aren’t comparable.” I disagree. Hodson was over-glorifying blogging, while trivializing the broad variety of Twitter use cases.* Consider, if you please, the following list of use cases that are [...]

By Curt Monash

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:31:46 GMT

Visualizing Radiohead

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

Radiohead’s new single has a video created using only range data (in a mixture of scales). There is a good write up of this by Andrew Trice at...

Radiohead’s new single has a video created using only range data (in a mixture of scales). There is a good write up of this by Andrew Trice at InsideRIA, including a link to an interactive version of the data. Here’s...

By Matthew Hurst

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Microsoft buys Zoomix to add data quality to SQL Server

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Data-quality software helps automate the process of ensuring that data being entered and stored -- and later mined for decision-making -- is the most...

Data-quality software helps automate the process of ensuring that data being entered and stored -- and later mined for decision-making -- is the most accurate.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:39:10 GMT

High Hopes Part-Two. Did Anyone talk to Myrna?

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Evil eye. Stink eye. Jaundiced eye. The SAP VAR did not like interlopers second guessing; they didn't get this far billing seven figure accounts with...

Evil eye. Stink eye. Jaundiced eye. The SAP VAR did not like interlopers second guessing; they didn't get this far billing seven figure accounts with 150% margin by having guys like me analyze the plumbing and operational / usability issues. They didn't like it even when I was invited and paid to be there.

By abm

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:43:05 GMT

Empty and vacuous, the iPhone line people

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Stop it now, get out of line, go home. Collect your old clothes and donate them, volunteer, or just go back to the job that you called in sick for -...

Stop it now, get out of line, go home. Collect your old clothes and donate them, volunteer, or just go back to the job that you called in sick for - argh. Get a life.

By abm

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:31:00 GMT

The phrase “business intelligence” was COINED for text analytics

Text Technologies

Late last year, there was a little flap about who invented the phrase business intelligence. Credit turns out to go to an IBM researcher named H. P....

Late last year, there was a little flap about who invented the phrase business intelligence. Credit turns out to go to an IBM researcher named H. P. Luhn, as per this 1958 paper. Well, I finally took a look at the paper, after Jeff Jones of IBM sent over another copy. And [...]

By Curt Monash

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:41:59 GMT

Chatbot game — Digg meets Eliza?

Text Technologies

I forget how I got the URL, but something called the Chatbot Game purports to be a combination of Eliza and Digg. That is, it’s a chatbot with a lot...

I forget how I got the URL, but something called the Chatbot Game purports to be a combination of Eliza and Digg. That is, it’s a chatbot with a lot of rules; anybody can submit rules; rules are voted up and down. I don’t think I’ll want to play with it for a while (I’m [...]

By Curt Monash

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:57:40 GMT

Has JLove taken the dishonest pages down?

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On June 19, I wrote of a very dishonest gambit by a dating service called JLove. Specifically, JLove generated pages for many (First_Name, Last_Name)...

On June 19, I wrote of a very dishonest gambit by a dating service called JLove. Specifically, JLove generated pages for many (First_Name, Last_Name) combos, falsely claiming that people — me included — were members of its site. The story was picked up by Slashdot and by some other blogs. Numerous aggrieved [...]

By Curt Monash

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:41:18 GMT

Timberpost: Farecast for Stocks

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

Farecast (recently acquired by MIcrosoft) does just what you want when making an airplane ticket purchase: it predicts if the price is going to go...

Farecast (recently acquired by MIcrosoft) does just what you want when making an airplane ticket purchase: it predicts if the price is going to go up, down or stay level and advises when you should buy (now, wait). Timberpost is...

By Matthew Hurst

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:13:02 GMT

Google Health spoof

Text Technologies

FutureFeedForward is on a roll: MOUNTAIN VIEW–Information search giant Google, Inc. announced Thursday the release of Google Body, a search service...

FutureFeedForward is on a roll: MOUNTAIN VIEW–Information search giant Google, Inc. announced Thursday the release of Google Body, a search service aiming to index the internal and external anatomy of every living creature on the planet. … Early testers have remarked upon a fuzzy-logic “match my organ” feature, which helps users get in touch with the nearest, [...]

By Curt Monash

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:07:55 GMT

Fun with the Google External Keyword Tool

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Google announced a major upgrade to the Google (External) Keyword Tool — it now gives actual numbers of searches, instead of vague logarithmic green...

Google announced a major upgrade to the Google (External) Keyword Tool — it now gives actual numbers of searches, instead of vague logarithmic green bars. This now makes it very cool for figuring out what people actually search for. Estimated average monthly search volumes include: George Bush 1,830,000 White House 1,220,000 George Bush sucks 1,300 Hillary Clinton [...]

By Curt Monash