Archive for March, 2005
Triplepundit launches - business meets sustainability weblog
Sunday, March 6th, 2005Nick Aster, who is doing an MBA in sustainability has launched Triple Pundit which covers business from an eco-aware perspective.
Hard C**k, Limp Bizkit, Lame Lawsoooot
Sunday, March 6th, 2005The really strange thing about the Durst scandal is that they are suing for copyright infringement for ‘linking’ - posting a link to something that may infringe copyright.
So lets get this right, if that is indeed against the law then the everyday business of:
Google
Yahoo
MSN
er… the entire web, is illegal.
Fred Durst Sues Over Stolen Sex Video - March 4, 2005:
“the Limp Bizkit front man has filed a $80 million lawsuit against web sites that posted the footage and stills from the singer’s X-rated romp with a former girlfriend.”
Wists new features - exploiting tags to improve a search engine - global search over users, tags and items
Saturday, March 5th, 2005We’ve added a global search feature to Wists.
The search will look up users, tags and individual item titles and descriptions all at once - returning the results for each, separately. - So there are no parameters and advanced search settings. Again the rule is: have the user do the least work.
Because tags tend to have multiple variants with the same stem, e.g. Lifehacker, Lifehacks, Lifehacking, Wists search will return everything starting with ‘Lifehack’. However, because people have tagged things separately you can still filter by one tag in particular.
I can see that perhaps using search and tags with extensions to common word stems might evolve some interesting patterns.
For example, if I wanted to start a list of restaurants for my friends I coud tag as ‘restaurant_dgfriends’ and filter by that in a search for restaurant. I’ll have to think about it - but the next step for Wists will be how we look at groups and community and hopefully there is something that involves minimal effort for users there too.
Wists new features - inviteless, automated group and social network formation
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005New Features:
(The overall aim is to make as much as possible one or two clicks or automatic, based upon normal interaction with the product, from building a network of friends and groups of tags, to publishing - as things like tags fill up we’ll overlay tag management on top - again hopefully making that as automated as possible.)
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