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| Apr 19, 2013 | How To Raise The Next Zuckerberg: 6 Coding Apps For Kids | If you want to give your kid every opportunity to succeed, it’s hard to argue with teaching them to code. Some of the wealthiest and most influential people of our time began programming young, and who wouldn’t want that kind of future for ... |
| Dec 18, 2012 | Introducing GeekWire 200: Seattle’s Startup Leaderboard | GeekWire is excited to reintroduce a Seattle tech tradition today: a ranked index of the region’s technology startups, using publicly available data to help identify the companies that are growing quickly, making an impact and grabbing the ... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Code Monster teaches kids to crunch Javascript, builds appetite for programming | Greg Linden with his Code Monster programming site.
Greg Linden is a veteran software engineer and startup entrepreneur in Seattle who developed Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, started the personalized news website Findory.com and worke... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Lean and technical: How we chose and furnished our office the YCombinator way | Cloudant is growing, and we recently opened offices in Seattle and the UK (in addition to our headquarters in Boston, near Cloudant’s MIT birthplace). As a YCombinator company, Cloudant is conditioned to run lean, but we also have an except... |
| Jun 8, 2010 | Safari 5 vs Internet Explorer 9: Why speed matters (video) | Browser makers have focused their attention on the feature that matters most to Web surfers, other than not crashing: speed.
Apple’s Safari 5 browser, launched yesterday in the shadow of Steve Jobs’ new iPhone, is said by Apple to run JavaS... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | Twitter cofounders have talked about the importance of discovery in interviews and at conferences over the last several months. This week a new design for Twitter.com went live featuring top tweets and a search box to find more of what you ... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Open data is the future of web discovery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter cofounders have talked about the importan... |
| Jun 20, 2008 | Space Needle Envy: A Bostonian’s Ode to Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“Only one is a wanderer. Two, together, are always going somewhere.” It’s one of my favorite lines from my favorite movie—Hitchcock’s Vertigo—and now it’s true of Xconomy. By ... |
| Aug 7, 2007 | Personalized Search Primer – And Google’s Approach | Guest article by Greg Linden, founder of personalized news service Findory and author of Geeking with Greg.
Google has received much attention, not all of it positive, for its efforts to personalize search.
In this article, I will briefly d... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Roundup: Dual-mode Blackberry, VCs go late, Pyramid 2.0 continued, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Blackberry 8820 announced — It is the first BlackBerry that is dual-mode, letting you use both cellular networks (EDGE/GPRS/GSM) and WiFi. More at ZDNet. This is probably enough for BlackBerry to stave off the iPho... |
| Jan 14, 2007 | Findory Put On Life Support | The last time we wrote about Findory was over a year ago. Ironically, it was to note that they had turned cash flow positive. Today, founder Greg Linden said he’s going to stop development of the site and put it on “autopilot.”
Findory is a... |
| Oct 18, 2006 | Personalized News: A Market Overview | Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by
Richard MacManus. Introduction
Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news
sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ... |
| Oct 18, 2006 | Personalized News: A Market Overview | Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by
Richard MacManus.
Introduction
Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news
sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ... |
| Aug 22, 2006 | Web Platform Primer – what’s available via API? | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus.
The Web computing platform today encompasses a wide range of functions, a lot of which
are accessible via APIs (Application Programming Interface). From the relatively simple
bookmarkin... |
| May 14, 2006 | What matters 2.0 | Tim Bray
in a post entitled What Matters: “Every day that goes by I believe more
and more that the only important new thing is that the Net is
read-write
.
Everything that matters follows from that.”
I came across this the same day that I n... |
| Apr 2, 2006 | Claria abandons adware — really! — and raises $40 to push PersonalWeb | Updated
Claria, that Redwood City company that we and others criticized for its adware software that tracks your surfing patterns, has repented and decided to do something completely different. Its latest offering is a personalized home pag... |
| Mar 14, 2006 | Mashup Business Models | Developing a mashup can be
a lot of fun and it’s usually low cost, because you’re using (semi) open tools and data.
Forget fun though for a minute – is there a business in mashups? There are obvious
benefits for the data providers, for exam... |
| Mar 7, 2006 | Google's Leaky Analyst Day | Google, of course, is notorious for not giving analysts much guidance, but last week they had an “analyst day” to try to address many of their concerns. The aftermath, though, is showing a few glitches in the Google quiet zone. Among the in... |
| Mar 6, 2006 | Google Drive: What we know so far | We have all the ingredients for a great story: dramatic predictions of Google taking over the world, secret disclosures of a new stealth product at a Google analyst meeting, outing of the story by bloggers, and subsequent purging of the pub... |
| Mar 6, 2006 | Google’s “GDrive” part of promise for infinite storage | GDrive
Greg Linden points to some slides from Google’s Analyst Day that were subsequently removed by Google, but the text of which Linden has relocated. Note that something called GDrive is mentioned, although Google clearly doesn’t see it ... |
| Mar 5, 2006 | Store 100% – Google’s Golden Copy | The Google Analyst Day
presentation makes for interesting reading. Thanks to Greg
Linden for providing the early analysis and text from the now withdrawn powerpoint
presentation (only available now as a 10MB PDF – sans the
ppt notes unfortu... |
| Feb 14, 2006 | Personalized Clustering: It’s too hard, say developers | After my post about
Personalized Megite, I got taken to task by both Gabe Rivera from Memeorandum and Nik Cubrilovic from OmniDrive – two developers who have had a lot of
experience trying to develop such systems. As Gabe wrote in
Scoble’s ... |
| Jan 2, 2006 | Findory Hits Milestone | Congratulations to Greg Linden, who reports that Findory is now cash flow positive. If you’d like to know more about Findory, my original profile, written on September 5, 2005, is here. |
| Dec 3, 2005 | I Thought The Web Was The Platform | I remember the tagline for Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle‘s first web 2.0 conference.
Web 2.0 – "The Web As A Platform"
We’ve seen the definition of Web 2.0 change since then and become so hyped up that its borderline worthless as... |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2005 | Note: The Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-Up is back with a new publishing day (Fri) and a new
format, a countdown of the Top Ten Web 2.0 issues or news stories of the past week. Also I’m
on the lookout for a new sponsor for the Weekly Wrap-Up. It’s ha... |
| Sep 25, 2005 | Findory Adds Self-Evolving Feed Reader | Findory has a first-class personalization engine for blog and other news (see our profile on September 3, 2005).
Findory has built up a loyal following in the nearly two years since its launch. However, many users requested the ability to i... |
| Sep 3, 2005 | Findory is your Personalized Newspaper | Company: Findory
Launched: January 2004
Location: Seattle, WA
I’ve recently become interested in companies that exploit the actions and attention of users to provide personalized content recommendations. We wrote about Attensa’s efforts in ... |
| Jun 29, 2005 | Yahoo My Web 2.0 | Yahoo has a beta “Social Search Engine” called (woo!) My Web 2.0. According to the Yahoo Search Blog, it “enables people to search the expertise of their friends and community”. It hooks into Yahoo 360 (which opened up to the general public... |
| Jun 7, 2005 | The Changing Web | John Battelle wrote about "The Changing Web" in his piece on PubSub last week.
There are a number of interesting companies, including Google and Yahoo!, that are working on solutions to access The Changing Web. The companies that ... |
| Dec 28, 2004 | Competing with Craigslist | It’s almost trite, at least in the Bay Area, to talk about how Craigslist is reshaping the classfied ads business. The 10-year-old Web company, which offers mostly free classfied ads, has a large and loyal Bay Area following.
But a new repo... |
