Month: December 2006

YouTube needs item authority

ie, deal with the multiple copies in a smart way. this reminds me of the tag consolidation manuel was talking about the other day, only much much harder.

When I worked at Amazon, there was a lot of effort into recognizing that 2 items in the catalog were actually the same item. That was called item authority. I was recently browsing around in YouTube and I noticed how bad the site is about dealing with multiple copies of the same content. For example, on Weird Al’s video, “White & Nerdy“, look at the related videos.

Jon Udell goes to Microsoft

The details aren’t nailed down, but in broad terms I’ve proposed to Microsoft that I continue to function pretty much as I do now. That means blogging, podcasting, and screencasting on topics that I think are interesting and important; it means doing the kinds of lightweight and agile R&D that I’ve always done; and it means brokering connections among people, software, information, and ideas — again, as I’ve always done.

wow. jon going to ms is big. he has clue in spades. being an evangelist who can code cough scoble cough makes a big difference. AND he thinks it is all connected through intelligence augmentation. ROCK!

What code DOESN’T do

  1. Code does not move
  2. Code is not green text on a black background
  3. Code has structure
  4. Code is not 3 dimensional
  5. Code does not make blip noises as it appears on the screen
  6. Code cannot be cracked by an 8 year old kid in a matter of seconds
  7. Not all code is meant to be cracked
  8. Code isn’t just 0100110 010101 10100 011
  9. People who write code use mice
  10. Most code is not inherently cross platform

Funny because it is so true!
2007-04-08: Movie computer feats. I especially like

They strike at core mythologies about how computers work and the great yearning we all have for them to anticipate our thoughts and desires and meld with our own minds.

Terracotta

The Terracotta Server provides powerful distributed in-memory data management capabilities for Terracotta products (such as Ehcache) and is the backbone for Terracotta clusters. A Terracotta Server Array can vary from a basic 2-node tandem to a multi-node array (Terracotta Server Array (TSA)) providing configurable scale, high performance, and deep failover coverage.

low level java clustering. i love that more and more infrastructure projects slap together a quick video to explain where they fit in