Verizon Changes Heart, Opens Up

What Makes a Great Selection of Links?

Dave Winer has a great post about the next step in Digg clones. This is something I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about too. What makes a great selection of links? Does it take a million people? Or only a handful.

Netflix Dataset Cracked, Subscribers Profiled

Netflix offered a million dollar reward to anyone who could improve upon their recommendation engine by ten percent. Two researchers accomplished a lot more with the "anonymized" dataset.

How To Look Your Best In Search Results

Mom always said, "Put your best foot forward." It's valuable advice, because often how you appear on a first meeting sends subtle signals about you and can influence what happens next. We should also be concerned the same way with how we appear, what information is presented about us, in the search results.