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The tipping point: WhiteHouse.gov
by Vladimir Zelevinsky
Vladimir Zelevinsky
This will be a quick and happy post.
Each new technology has a tipping point (also see Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”): as everything else in nature, the technology adoption process follows the bell curve. Before the tipping point, it’s a climb; after, it’s a roller coaster.
I just noticed that we have passed this [...]
Three flavors of vertical search: Bing / Supercook / Food Network
by Vladimir Zelevinsky
Vladimir Zelevinsky
It’s no secret that a good number of people who work at Endeca are foodies (I hereby confess the authorship of the bagel in the last photo). So it’s highly exciting to hear that a major search engine (Bing, probably not related to a cherry variety) is adding vertical search for recipes.
This [...]
A look at the forest
by Vladimir Zelevinsky
Vladimir Zelevinsky
Einstein once said (and by referring to Einstein, this post instantly receives 1.21 jigawatts of respectability):
“So many people today – and even professional scientists – seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. [...] This independence created by philosophical insight is – in my opinion [...]
