Saturday, February 02, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:03:47 AM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

Webware: This is one of the most innovative ideas at Demo 2008: Delver, a search engine that displays results for you based on what your friends and contacts are doing online.

Technology Review: A company called Delver, which presented at Demo earlier this week, is working on a search engine that uses social-network data to return personalized results from the larger Web.

ZDNet: Delver prioritizes results based on a user’s network by indexing information from social networking profiles, blogs, photo and video sharing sites and other services.

Washington Post: Sites that already know my preferences and friends, without any input from the user, could score big with social networking addicts.

TechCrunch: Since every person’s social graph is unique—much like a fingerprint—the same Delver query will produce significantly different results for each person—as reflected through the collective experiences of each person’s contacts.

Boston Herald: ...an attempt at Google-killer, and not a half bad one.

Mashable: Delver, on the other hand, has gone straight for the money. Why not leverage a user’s social “graph” in order to mine search results? Delver does this with an impressive process that doesn’t even require you to create an account.

Laptop Magazine: Leading the “why didn’t I think of that” category is Delver.

PC World: ...plain interesting and worthy of further investigation.

Sign up for the beta at Delver.com.

Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:01:35 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Wednesday, January 30, 2008

War is the continuation of politics through other means.
      "On War" (1816-1830), Carl von Clausewitz.


The decision in principle of the security cabinet on August 9 to approve the IDF's recommendation for a ground offensive, subject to the diplomatic time-table, was a practically essential decision. It provided Israel with necessary diplomatic flexibility.
      Winograd Commission, January 2008.

Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:40:20 AM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, January 26, 2008

Alice Miller in "The Drama of the Gifted Child" (1979), page 65:

  The grandiose man is never truly free, for
  (1) he is fully dependent on the admiration of the object and
  (2) his self value is dependent on the qualities, performance and achievements that can crumble in a moment.

Sunday, January 27, 2008 1:02:51 AM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

The good: Joaquin Phoenix has developed into a top-notch star.
The sad: Robert Duvall is getting old. Why, why can't we stop time?
God damn: Eva Mendez. God damn it.
Puzzle #1: how come Marky Mark is doing "The Departed" again??
The action: car chase in the rain - excellent. Shootout in the cocaine distillery - not bad either.
Observation: Mark Wahlberg has became a litmus test for movie quality - he's only in flicks that are good. Just as Nicolas Cage, a better actor altogether, is only in movies that suck.
Observation #2: Oleg Taktarov also starred in "15 Minutes" as the unsuccessful-Russian-mafioso's-sidekick, making him top unsuccessful-Russian-mafioso's-sidekick of the 21th century by a landslide.
Directed and written: James Gray.
Puzzle #2: Moni Moshonov as a Russian drug lord? WTF?
Verdict: 7 out of 10.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:22:36 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

Haaretz Photographer Uriel Sinai photographs the recent violence in Kenya. (Hebrew)

Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:47:09 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, January 24, 2008

A few quick updates:
My company, Semingo, changed its name and from now on we're called Delver.

We'll be officially launching our product at the DEMO conference in Palm Desert, CA next week (January 28-30).
If you're there, make sure to drop by our booth (say Pasha sent you), and don't miss the demo. I promise we're one of the coolest products there.
If you want to be notified when our beta is open, sign up at delver.com.

Friday, January 25, 2008 12:42:55 AM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Like written so many times before, HttpUtility.UrlEncode is extremely outdated and buggy.
It doesn't encode the single quote ('), there's an open bug marked "Closed (Won't Fix)". So don't wait for a patch.
It doesn't encode the plus sign (+) either.

So please use the AntiXss library whenever it's remotely important to get it right.
Needless to say, same goes for the other encoding methods of HttpUtility, like HtmlEncode.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:07:19 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 

This is not bad:
Live Search: How Many Calories In Pizza
It's good to see Live doing something besides catching up with Google.
Google and Yahoo don't have anything. Ask has something.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:48:43 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, December 22, 2007

I'm starting to think they should have licenses for owning a keyboard. Because people have too much time lately. And fast internet.
Amazon now has a "Customer Discussions (beta)" section on the product page.
Here's a snapshot of something I stumbled upon just now:




Lets try to help the lost souls, shall we:
Q: I'm a lesbian but I believe in God what should I do?
Don't tell Him.
And don't tell your girlfriend.
Q: How many sins did you commit today?
Who, me? about six or seven. Wait, last night was already today too? Hmm. Maybe like ten. I didn't know she was married, man.
Q: Why are there so many Atheists on a Religion forum?
We like it here. It's quiet and sunny. The girls are cute.
But enough with us, why are You Capitalizing Any Word That Has To Do With religion, yo??
Q: Only religion leads us to Truth!
Oh, I see now. Good answer.
Q: What is the meaning of a "pure heart" especially in today's society?
"She told him she only likes him for the car".
And Google doesn't know either so that's the best you're going to get.
Q: Is George Bush the Anti-Christ?
Anti-Christ? I thought he was just "anti exis of evil". Is Christ there too? Is he with that North Korean dude with the expensive booze?

Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:46:02 PM (Jerusalem Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |