Sep 03, 2009

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Sep 23, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: 54 Prince St., SohoPhone: 212-226-8877Status: Open now.PR reps announce that the long delayed macaroni shaped sister to Soho scenster restaurant Delicatessen opens today on 54 Prince Street. About what one would expect, Macbar serves up 12 flavors of mac 'n' cheese—including a lobster version, a duck confit version, a carbo (Read More)

Sep 15, 2009

benjamingolub.com This blog is now running off of Tornado on App Engine. Tornado is an open source version of the web server and tools that power FriendFeed. I'm really excited that this code was open sourced, working with this server has been a pleasure at FriendFeed and I'm looking forward to seeing how developers will use it and contribut (Read More)

Sep 19, 2009

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media I just received a copy of Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain by Richard Brandt. I'm generally pretty bad at reading this type of book and getting a review out in a timely manner, so this time I'm going to try my best to write a review of the first chapter.However, before I get that far, I've formed an impression based on the o (Read More)

Sep 12, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: Image: Jay Smith To their great credit, Facebook have just open-sourced more of their core software. This time it’s Tornado, an asynchronous web server written in Python.Surely that can only mean one thing: Tornado is based on Twisted. Right?Incredibly, no. Words fail me on this one. I’ve spent some hours today trying to pu (Read More)

Sep 14, 2009

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media After the WhizBang!Labs implosion, I worked for Intelliseek (BuzzMetrics, Neilsen) where Sundar Kadayam was the CTO. Since leaving Nielsen, Sundar has been busy working on a new idea called Zakta. The site combines the functionality of web search, wiki and social features with the goal of simplifying the discovery, extracti (Read More)

Aug 27, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: For those of you interested in the study of networked data, I would like to bring your attention to the "Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN)", a workshop organized by my colleagues Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, and Arun Sundararajan. It will take place on September 25-26, 2009. From the description:The purpose of WIN is (Read More)

Aug 14, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: Sometimes the response to a comment is worthy of an entire post, and this is one of those times. In response to my recent post about Able Grape, a wine search engine developed by Doug Cook (now Director of Twitter Search), Lee asked:Let’s say I know almost nothing about wines/digital cameras/cars and a search site offers me (Read More)

Aug 16, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: Arnon Mishkin wrote a post last Thursday on paidContent called “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” that has been generating a lot of discussion, so I figured I’d join in the free-for-all. First, let me try to reduce each person’s argument to a direct quote that best sums up his position.Arnon Mishkin:The vast majority of the (Read More)

Aug 15, 2009

TwitLinks It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about t (Read More)

Aug 25, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: In case you missed it, FluidDB has (finally) launched. I wont be blogging here about FluidDB or Fluidinfo, though will continue to post personal things and of course random bits of code that seem interesting (and small) enough to warrant mention. I have yet another Twisted snippet coming up, though I’m not sure when I’ll ge (Read More)

Aug 17, 2009

Submitted by Jny2cornell from Google Reader: This is just a quick announcement to let people know that we’ve open sourced our JRuby library for term extraction. You can get the code from my github page.Unlike a lot of term extraction libraries, this doesn’t take any stance as to the “significance” of the terms it extracts. It’s purely about looking at the syntax and d (Read More)

Aug 15, 2009

A VC Milestone Based Investing . (Read More)

Aug 17, 2009

A VC Chris Dixon is killing it on his blog right now. My post on saturday was inspired by a blog post of his and I am going to repeat that today.Chris laid out the ideal set of first round terms and I agree with them. What's interesting is that Chris is a serial entrepreneur and I am a VC. And yet we agree on what the term sheet (Read More)

Aug 08, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: When we started fav.or.it (Company and Website) we had a range of ideas that we thought would improve the way consumers read the latest news. This focused initially on aggregation of blogs and the unique (at the time) feature of blog comment aggregation. The business behind this was to bring together filtered content (from (Read More)

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