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SSE - an RSS extension for two-way synchronization

Ray Ozzie mentioned an interesting variation of the RSS protocol. RSS is essentially a one-way synchronization protocol. What it would take to change the RSS standard in a very minimal way, such that it will work for two-way replication. A simple idea, Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 12:25 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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...but, in Soviet Russia, the web services use YOU!

Actually, in US too. No, I'm serious! The technique it's called Mechanical Turk , and its first form is developed by Amazon.com. The process is quite simple: 1) A large number of humans are going to that site. 2) They will be asked to do some work. 3) Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:53 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

How big is Hotmail?

Huge. Here is some data from a PDC Hotmail presentation : ~200 million active users 3.3 billion inbound emails a day 1.5 billion blocked at the router 1.0 billion deleted as spam (never hits the user's mailbox) 0.5 billion sent to the junk folder Over Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:41 PM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

Start.com Developer Center is launched! (or at least the web site is up)

It looks like it is possible to create your own start.com site, develop "gadgets" for it, etc. Go directly here: http://start.com/developer/ Here is also some documentation on the new Atlas runtime: http://start.com/developer/atlasruntime.aspx While you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:11 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Virtual Earth hacks

http://viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/Default.ashx I personally like Flash Earth . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:05 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Neural networks used to improve relevance in web search

Did you know that the most recent version of the MSN Search engine uses neural networks to improve search relevance? The ultimate goal is to have near-perfect relevance. The algorithms were developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research, with help Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 1:49 AM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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