November 2010
18 posts
Watchbenjaminpalmer:
The GE Show Episode 3: Flight!
“But why doesn’t it come with a tiny little man to chew it for you? I feel...”
– Comments from eating a $777 Las Vegas hamburger.
We Eat A Very, Very, Very Expensive Burger. : Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! : NPR
Algorithm + Curation →
I was struck with the simplicity of this idea on how to make the Hunch + Gifts.com recommendation engine much better.
The real problem, it seems, is that Hunch’s algorithm is more sophisticated than Gifts.com’s stuff selection. The universe of gifts dominates the software’s ability to find good presents within it. To be a little unfair to Gifts.com, it’s like being taken...
Let's Drink in SF →
Hey, I’m around SF for the week and am going to get some folks together for drinks on Thursday night. You should come. Here are the details:
Where: Rickhouse Bar, 246 Kearny St. SF, Ca 94108 When: Thursday, November 18 @ 6:30pm
Come down and have a drink. It will be fun. Via: Let’s Drink in SF // NoahBrier.com
Tumblr API Question(s)
rafer:
heyitsnoah:
1. Does anyone know if there’s a plan to add a list of people you’re following to the Tumblr API?
2. Is there a workaround to get at that data?
Rafer sez: Not sure what the TOS says, but you could cache the user names that you get via the read API.
Yeah, I think that’s probably the easiest way (haven’t checked TOS yet either), but doesn’t it seem like...
Tumblr API Question(s)
1. Does anyone know if there’s a plan to add a list of people you’re following to the Tumblr API?
2. Is there a workaround to get at that data?
“It is a truism bordering on drinking game material that anyone advising...”
– The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay Shirky
Managing Flow →
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about content creation on the web lately. Like more than usual. Which is funny, because It’s also a time in which I’ve created less content than any other…
