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Bookmarks for January 25th through January 27th

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, January 27, 2009

  • Best Buy seeks to expand its reach online – "Now, Web-application developers can access product images, pricing and customer reviews, incorporating them in websites and blogs to provide a richer experience for their audience. "
  • Grainger and Mike Rowe Kick off Partnership, Reinforce Shared Commitment to Skilled Workforce of Tomorrow – "This week Grainger (NYSE: GWW), North America's leading distributor of facilities maintenance supplies, kicked off a partnership with Mike Rowe, creator, executive producer and host of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs." In his role as a Grainger spokesperson, Rowe will be featured on the cover of the company's 2009 catalog and make several appearances on behalf of the company. Rowe is also partnering with Grainger in raising awareness about the importance of technical education and the growing shortage of skilled workers."
  • 37 Signals – Git Resources – "

    Git, though remarkably handy and powerful, is also remarkably hard to use sometimes. Though you can learn the basics easily enough, it can be really tough to dig yourself out of certain corners if you don’t understand what’s going on under the covers. This page provides links to documents, how-tos, cheat sheets, tips, and tricks related to learning and using git."

  • Paul Dowman » Blog Archive » How to convert from Subversion to Git – Converting from Subversion to git, and creating tags from the remote branches that signify tags in Subversion
  • Sphinx – Free open-source SQL full-text search engine – "Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx recognizes). "
  • Planet Git – "PlanetGit is a website that aggregates journal entries from several authors related to Git."

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Bookmarks for September 29th

September 30, 2008

Pub uses electronic cigarettes to beat the smoking ban – Telegraph – "The new E.cig smokes like a real cigarette and users get a shot of nicotine every time they inhale. The device even produces a cloud of water vapour with every puff, though causes no harm to smokers. "
SourceForge.net: pGina – Project that [...]

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Bookmarks for September 12th through September 13th

September 13, 2008

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability – "Rackspace faced a now familiar problem. Lots and lots of data streaming in. Where do you store all that data? How do you do anything useful with it?"
Map Multiple Locations by Address – Geocoding site – free use.
Better Searching [...]

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Bookmarks for September 9th through September 10th

September 10, 2008

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com – "Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them." – AMAZING DEMO
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image [...]

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Official Google Blog: Searching for music

December 15, 2005

You can now search for music information via Official Google Music Search

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Amazon Adds Tagging to Product Data

November 14, 2005

Hey, look at this — Amazon is adding user tagging to product data. There is also an article on news.com.

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The Anatomy of a Search Engine

October 2, 2005

For nostalgia sake, here’s the first paper Sergey Brin and Larry Page wrote on the PageRank algorithm, called The Anatomy of a Search Engine

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Google Blog Search

September 14, 2005

Check out Google Blog Search.

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