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Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Facebook invites ads into user profiles - Yahoo! News
Hmmm, I seemed to have missed the part where the people producing all the content that Facebook is capitalizing on get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated from their pages. Why again is this a good thing for Facebook users?  Why should I [...]

On Blogs and Browsers

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I have been writing three different blogs for a while now, two within a niche area (Paper of the Week, POTW, and my Lucene Blog) and a more general one, the one you are reading now. POTW is very focused on me learning and attempting to explain, in real world terms, academic papers [...]

Better Internet Explorer Support

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

I think I finally have solved my Internet Explorer problems (at least with IE 6, haven’t tested 7 yet) having to do with the listing of categories as menus at the top of this page. In browsers that support real CSS, there are nice hierarchical menus, all done in CSS. These never displayed [...]

Paper of the Week

Friday, January 5th, 2007

I am launching a new blog called Paper of the Week. The explanation of why is contained here. In a nutshell, it is my attempt to learn more about the Computer Science field, especially in the areas of machine learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Question Answering and also general algorithms [...]

Phoogle Maps on Dreamhost

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Whew! I finally have Phoogle Maps working after some intensive PHP debugging (mind you, I am not a PHP guy, but it isn’t that hard to get the basics if you know programming). Turns out the big problem was in my default PHP configuration as setup by Dreamhost (btw, they are an awesome [...]

Color Chooser

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Check out this cool Color Tool the next time you need to pick colors for your website!