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Umbria – Market Intelligence from Blogs
FORTUNE has an article (“Blogging for Dollars”) that covers Umbria, a company based here in Colorado that tracks what bloggers are saying about its clients (aka mining blogs for market intelligence). Economically, this market is finally starting to take shape — the ideas and attempts have been out there for a few years, but consumer… Read more ⇢
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Spolsky: Windows Live, Marimba Phenomenon
Joel Spolsky had a similarly disappointing experience with Windows Live as I did. He calls it the Marimba Phenomenon: The Marimba Phenomenon is what happens when you spend more on PR and marketing than on development. “Result: everybody checks out your code, and it’s not good yet. These people will be permanently convinced that your… Read more ⇢
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Windows Half-Live?
Windows Live looks like Microsoft’s tardy and half-baked answer to My Yahoo! It’s a customizable portal, with placeholders for weather and news and feed subscriptions etc. According to Bill Gates’ announcement today (video at CNET), Windows and Office are not required to use Windows Live. But try it from Safari on your Mac, and you’ll… Read more ⇢
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Tagyu
Now this is cool. Tagyu is an “auto-tagging” service of sorts, created by Adam Kalsey. You paste in some text (or submit via their REST API) and it suggests tags, using some kind of a similarity metric between your text and already tagged texts in Tagyu’s index (gathered from del.icio.us etc.). So far, I’ve tried… Read more ⇢
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Podcast Recommendation: The Word Nerds
If you’re a word nerd or, heck, if you just speak or are learning English, you’ll enjoy The Word Nerds, a weekly podcast by two brothers on topics like The Cold War and Hostile Language, Collective Nouns, The Unnamed Antecedent and segments like The Rude Word of the Week. It’s obvious these guys spend hours… Read more ⇢
