Read this article about the announcement earlier this week of an open source election system that was made publicly available. Now read this wee little blog post about why this isn’t providing us much in the way of guarantees. The open source nature of the code is helpful in the long run, but it provides [...]
Category Archives: Technology
ID Selector terms of service
10/9/2008 – 10:55 pm
Every now and then, I get it into my head that I’m going to release OpenID support on StyleFeeder. In fact, I have the code mostly written, but there’s always some nit-picky aspect that doesn’t work as well as I want it to, so I leave the code aside and get on with my life. [...]
Helios Voting System
8/1/2008 – 3:02 pm
Ben launched this new Helios Voting System earlier today. I heard him talk about it once and will be very interested to dig in to the code to see under the hood.
No, that’s not why perl 5 is dying
6/3/2008 – 11:33 pm
Interesting, but perl 5 is dying because nobody created a good way for folks to build web applications with perl. CGI scripts? No, sorry. mod_perl? Died an ugly death somewhere between Apache 1.x and the new MPMs in Apache 2.x. All the interesting frameworks (i.e. Mason, embperl) depended on mod_perl. Those are all basically dying [...]
So long, YottaMusic
2/8/2008 – 8:49 pm
I’ve enjoyed using YottaMusic ever since Jake told me about it last year. I signed on and became a paying Rhapsody customer but I used the YottaMusic frontend for streaming my music. I was wondering why YottaMusic shut down over Christmas and now I know. If anybody knows of another service like it, I’d love [...]
The Key to Shopping 2.0 Success: Empowering Customers
11/30/2007 – 6:54 pm
I have an opinion piece in the the E-Commerce Times today about the need for openness as a critical factor in the way that retailers market their products. Rather, the way that retailers provide tools and content to their customers to help them market their products. In unrelated news, we had some fun at the [...]
East coast startups redux
9/11/2007 – 10:48 pm
François writes about east coast startups and Bijan writes some more, all in response to Scott Kirsner’s article in this past Sunday’s Boston Globe (shameless plug: StyleFeeder is mentioned briefly). There seems to be a dimension of the conversation missing here, though. My view is that there is a veritable wellspring of local developers already [...]
StyleFeeder Tech Blog
7/30/2007 – 3:55 pm
Today, we launched a StyleFeeder Tech Blog for those of you who are interested in the black magic that goes on behind the scenes here. Jason‘s been doing all of the writing so far, mainly about our CF recommendation engine and Fast Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization. There’s some cutting edge stuff here. For those of [...]