Story Mapper by Carbon Five
August 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
Very cool tool for organizing and manipulating a project on PivotalTracker. I really wish it used oAuth or something, though.
A new kind of socially-biased search engine: Blekko
August 26, 2010 Leave a Comment
A new kind of socially-biased search engine: Blekko.
This idea of a simple query language that actually is geared towards normal people is interesting. SQL was supposed to be that way back when, but no one today would ever claim that a search engine that exposed SQL to users would be better for the masses. But a simpler version could have some really awesome broad impact in other areas. As people become more comfortable using semi-structured queries we can use them in our own web apps without extensive education or making them “advanced features”. I don’t know if Blekko can succeed, but if they can I think the web will benefit in some interesting ways.
The Data-Driven Life – NYTimes.com
August 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Data-Driven Life – NYTimes.com.
This sort of data collection and information extraction is becoming easier and more accessible. I’ve personally used tools like RescueTime and TrackYouHappiness.org with some benefit. I can see this becoming more prevalent and also the quality of information (as opposed to data) going up. I’ve been trying to track my migraines and workouts, but don’t really know what I’m looking for and it is difficult to maintain. One thing I love about tools like Kissmetrics is that they allow you to throw data at them and then build funnels after the fact with that data. That sort of post processing seems ideal for life tracking like the article talks about. Along the same line of reasoning, being able to combine multiple life streams that may individually include different pieces of data about you in to a single system would simplify collection as well. If my Twitter stream, RescueTime log, Gowalla checkins, and happiness reports were all pulled in and correlated together I imagine I could get a much clearer picture of what things impact my mood and productivity.
DataSift – Tuning the Social Web
August 12, 2010 Leave a Comment
DataSift – Tuning the Social Web.
Wow, this is really interesting. I’d love to see what kinds of tracking you could do with something like this. If it can actually do what they claim it can do this would really expose the aggregate data that is living in twitter. Heck, the fact that they have a sentiment analysis filter they are making part of this is exciting on its own.
Hoptoad and Javascript, Sitting in a Tree, S-E-N-D-I-N-G – GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
August 5, 2010 Leave a Comment
I’m really excited about this new feature of HopToad. I’ve played around with ExceptionHub but it was missing some important features like team management. Leveraging HopToad to do this kind of JavaScript/browser level error tracking really cleanly combines two useful and similar tools for debugging a running system.
I should add that I echo the concerns of some of the commenters on the linked to blog post about security concerns. It would be helpful if ThoughtBot followed this up with a post to address this concern in a bit more detail.
All in all though, this is nice
Google Wave looks ground breaking
May 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
I just finished watching the Google IO demo of the new system Google Wave. This is really an amazing piece of software. Check it out.
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