Martin Remy

  • 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 ⇢

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  • Yahoo == IR talent magnet | The tip of the iceberg

    Article in NY Times today, Yahoo is wooing I.B.M. Technical Talent: Yahoo plans to announce Thursday that it is recruiting scientists who pioneered an advanced search-engine technology at I.B.M.’s Silicon Valley research laboratory. … Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist who once led the Clever effort, joined Yahoo last week as head of research. He left… Read more ⇢

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  • Yahoo! briefly launches … Feedsterati?

    Steve Rubel and Niall Kennedy are reporting on a Yahoo RSS search service which was briefly public this morning. Seems to combine feed search (not just blogs, apparently, but other feed content, too, like Feedster) and several ranking options (date, relevance, and popularity). I’m curious about the popularity ranking, but I’d guess the initial version… Read more ⇢

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  • Whither Tagging?

    Susan Mernit asks some interesting questions about tagging’s scalability in this post: … 1. How well will tagging work as an organizing and information retrieval method when there are millions of tags?–That’s where having additional filters, such as identity, trust or cohort group becomes relevant–becomes needed. 2. How can developers move tagging into a wider… Read more ⇢

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