As you can see, Buzz.com is supposed to be hip, cool and has gradients … wooooooow. 
ok. Web 2.0 only worked with one ingredient: buzz. Buzz powers digg. Buzz powered technorati until spammers destroyed it. Buzz powers TMZ. Buzz pull the wool over Google’s eyes in their YouTube acquisition.
Now, there is a website about buzz on a server owned by company who is about as exciting as paint drying.
Precision and humility combined.
Developer’s Notebook
Contextualization Versus Personalization
Using emergent semantics by means of ontologies comprised of data from users who are visually authenticating contextualized datasets is extremely handy in psycho-graphic profiling; however, not required in machine learning.
Translation is:
Everything in the world has been seen, heard and spoken. Twice.
If someone says something and points at an object and someone understands that message whilst pointing at the same object, then the startup company does not need to collect personal data on the two individuals pointing at the object .. *cough* .. Facebook.
Unless you are planning to sell that data to the highest bidder, of course.
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Ding! * Yep,
I think Facebook will need a DO NOT CALL LIST soon.
I just uploaded a high-resolution video on YouTube:
Looks. Like. Shit.
Google paid 1.6 Billion Dollars for YouTube. WTF?
I posted the same high-resolution video on BlipTV:
Clean and readable. Nicely uploaded.
I can’t help it. I love this rivalry.
However, to tell you the truth… it’s getting ugly folks.
In case you are just joining us today, here is the backstory… Microsoft and Google continue to fire “warning” salvos.
Sun buys MySQL, shoring up network computering. Oracle grins. Microsoft panics that things are shifting towards network computing faster than expected.
Microsoft reacts by bidding for Yahoo! at premium to speed up the deal during an election year. Google issues a hurriedly-written release objecting the merger.
And then, (just like in Final Fantasy when Active Time Battle in Final Fantasy), Google tells students, “you know what, dudes? You really don’t need to buy Microsoft Office this year since we are going into an economic slowdown. Get Google Apps Team Edition instead.” Teeheee.
Here is an excerpt from the press release:
Google Apps Team Edition lets colleagues and departments at work, or
study groups at school, immediately begin sharing information within a
domain. In addition, the Team Edition can easily be upgraded to Google
Apps Standard, Premier or Education Edition for full administrative
control, such as the ability to set default sharing options, decide
which applications are available on the network, or determine who has
access.
This is getting good.
I came across excerpt of a user profile on Wikipedia that I could have sworn was written by me. I have already discussed the consequences of the “new economy”, where people who have nothing better to do sit and stalk their pet rock Wikipedia entries and persistently edit on topics they know nothing about.
The user’s profile is Yug.
I leave wikipedia for several reasons, the biggest being that make an efficient work on wikipedia become every day more difficult because of the inevitable presence of people with strong will to edit, but clear lack of knowledge and mediation abilities. … It time for me to stop my involment here since I clearly want involve my energy and leadership ability in more efficient places, in real tasks, to improve the world around me.
This post to his profile shows his complete understanding of the system, which is scary but also calming.
It is also a warning to Jimbo that he had better get his Wikipedia in order as more editors, unemployed (with nothing else better to do) and uneducated (without the urge to actually learn anything outside comfort zones), will soon drown Wikipedia in a sea of mediocrity.
Think I am exaggerating? Look at what happened to Mozilla’s Open Directory Project, basically dead-on-arrival after editors started gaming the listings.
Primezero Chinese Tools Completed at Version 1.10. Here is a complete list of features. This information architecture experiment has concluded.
I want to clarify:
From Developer’s Notebook
Now, for a quick core dump…
The primary goal of this project was to test what a “Chinese dictionary” is supposed to be. Let us first look at the somewhat traditional archetype this book.
A Chinese dictionary is a bound volume that contains insurmountable amounts of information related to one or more dialects of Chinese that can be readily accessed when needed.
Large volumes make wonderful doorstops and also are useful for propping up windows. Smaller volumes are often called “pocket dictionaries”, most likely designed for portability but with limited content.
Some Chinese dictionaries are neither large nor small, so they a provided topic-specific title, where you can find vocabulary that eludes that pocket dictionary without dragging a 5 pound dictionary around.
Things you find in traditional paper dictionaries:
Things you find in Primezero Chinese Tools (not a dictionary… a dictionary tool):
LinkedIn starts February 2008 with some very nice merch.
I always knew that Nick had superpowers, but now I don’t sound so crazy anymore.
Developing…
If you act on this latest e-mail promo from the GoBig Network, it is time to close down your dot-com and find a real job … what am I talking about?
Well, ya see, if you need to engage in factoring, your cash flow absolutely sucks; thus, your company is already on its last legs with declining consumer demand and the credit crunch. If you participate in factoring, you will pay for it later. (This may be where some of the 500 Trillion of off-the-book debt may be hiding, which is why the credit crisis is just getting started, but then again I digress.)
Consult your accounting officer chef for details on what I am talking about.
Yes, I am a wet towel at the party, but I guess that’s what happens when you spend as much time as I do in reality.
Here is the promo below:
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