2005 January 11

Some of you had a chance to catch the first two Chris Pirillo Show broadcasts live at CES. Our producer, Jake Ludington, just returned home to Seattle last night (as he opted to drive instead of fly). It was great to have a small audience and to interview so many people within a two and a half-hour time span! Once Jake decompresses, he’ll be taking the recorded audio and posting it here for your enjoyment. We also had the opportunity to do some on-the-scene reporting with other geeks in Las Vegas, and will likely place those quick interviews here within the coming week as well.
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Microsoft Research has a few cool tools up their sleeve:

MSRA SRC Toolbar is a tool for searching web with the Search Result Clustering (SRC) technique, which is developed at Web Search and Mining Group in MSR, Asia. It on-the-fly clusters a certain search engine's search results into different groups, and provide meaningful and readable names for these groups. SRC changes the traditional representation of search results into a non-linear way, so as to facilitate user's browsing.
Traditional clustering techniques don't work for this problem because the documents are short, the cluster names should be readable and the algorithm should be efficient for on-the-fly calculation. Our method take the whole problem in another way and overcome the difficulties in traditional clustering method. Basically, we try to first identify salient topics by identifying distinct and independent keyword, and then classify the search results into these topics.

My question is: why don't they actually put that kind of functionality into the official MSN toolbar?

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Gérard from Montréal sent me a note on this new piece of freeware:

Gloodle is a simple app that shows some hint of the immediate feedback that makes particleIllusion so fun and useable: in Gloodle you just draw on the window and cool things happen. Not much thinking required. There are plenty of controls to experiment with, and (like particleIllusion) a lot of power hidden under simple controls.

Perhaps it can finally break my addiction to Jewel Quest?

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