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Bloglines search coming this summer
Stephen Baker @ Businessweek: The CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. “The challenge,” he says, “is to create world-class blog search, which we don’t think exists now.” Of course, lots of… Read more ⇢
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The smallest flying web server in the world
linuxdevices.com: Researchers at the University of Essex are using Linux and tiny embedded computer modules to build fleets of unmanned aircraft that fly in flocking formations like birds, while performing parallel, distributed computing tasks using Bluetooth-connected Linux clustering software… (Via boingboing) Read more ⇢
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BBC News Developer Network
This is drawing a lot of interest this morning. May bring even more people into the news content game and increases the pressure on other news outlets to open up. BBC Backstage: backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC’s new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with. Alternatively, share your ideas on new ways to… Read more ⇢
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Grokker is back, as Yahoo! front end
Grokker has resurfaced as a front-end for Yahoo! search results. Uses a Java plugin (why not Shockwave?) and devotes a sizeable chunk of the page to Overture ads. For some search use cases, the results are marginally more useful than Vivisimo‘s clusters, because instead of clusters being completely data-driven (as they appear to be on… Read more ⇢
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YAF – Yet Another Folksonomy
Chris McEvoy illuminates yet another flavor of folksonomy: Bloglines users are a load of knitters has lots of interesting stats and analysis. Chris even makes a data file available of all 10K categories having >= 10 items. Very cool. The top 10 most popular folder names on Bloglines are: 1. Blogs 2. News 3. tech… Read more ⇢