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Re: Proving that content is mine | Front Office Box Users

andraz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:48:30 -0000

What was the site? :)

Andraz Tori, Zemanta

Re: Zoo in the cloud needs a keeper

andraz — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:01:01 -0000

Oh, I totally forgot to mention one iteration we did before coming to P2P solution. We had access to Amazon SimpleDB while it was still in beta. We did a "use a SimpleDB table as a shared memory" concept.

That didn't work well. The problem with SimpleDB for this kind of situation is that read after write will not necessary return what you have just written. And delays were way to long for it to work, we were getting network partitioning all the time, so we were back to the drawing table.

However we do use SimpleDB for some other parts of our system. Maybe we'll describe that in one of the future posts.

Re: Apache Lucene meetup, report

andraz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:19:29 -0000

Unfortunately today I can't come to Hadoop meetup. Anyone willing to record it, please? :)

However I am now living in San Francisco. Where are you/lucid based?

Re: NoSQL meetup, report

gtani — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:15:51 -0000

People have tried

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ale_YaC...

The threshold questions before adopting a db framework of whatever variety are: 1) could you maintain it yourself if you had to? Some of the listings are 13K SLOC and under. It would be nice if they had numbers committers, coverage ratio, numbers of bugs submitted and closed out, stuff like that. And i don't think answering "Expansion?" and "Partitoning?" as yes/not questions is all that meaningful.

2) Where are early adopters/people submitting patches? And how many people put it into production. The spreadsheet is a decent first attempt at collecting all that.

Re: NoSQL meetup, report

gtani — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:04:24 -0000

Hi Andraz,

Excellent blog BTW.

NoSQL is very confusing for almost everybody, the first metric i apply to
see if I even want to spend 20 minutes reading blogs about a new nosql db is
the google trends numbers, how many taggers in delicious are tagging, say,
Riak, and how much volume is there in mailing lists and blogosphere. If
there's no tangible active user base say, 9 months after announcement, i'd
say the project is pre-orphaned.

There are exceptions, like the author of dynomite told us not to use the
code in github, but he's definitely one of hte best erlang coders I've
encountered so i'm watching that.

Re: NoSQL meetup, report

andraz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:30:38 -0000

Hi tani!

Yeah, there needs to be a whole matrix of properties and these solutions laid out on them. This is all about balancing the requirements in one way or another and you can't have it all. It's gonna be a gold mine for writers of white-papers and analysts.

However the question for architects right now is which solutions are here to stay and we can bet our infrastructures on. This is even more important than perfect fit to business needs, because when you chose something that goes away and is not maintained anymore you really need to spend a lot of resources to switch.

To anyone wanting to know more about CAP theorem, I'd suggest reading http://www.julianbrowne.com/article/viewer/brew...

Re: Digital Strangelove

fredwilson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:47:45 -0000

I know

Re: Digital Strangelove

andraz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:14:14 -0000

Whoa, to the point!

Re: New Zemanta engine & API release

VictusFate — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:16:18 -0000

Great Andraz. Will be in touch if folks like this first public hosted version. It could use more enticement to the user to opt in still. My plan was to have more relevant two way search based on historical keywords, frequency, confidence, and time since last update.

Re: New Zemanta engine & API release

andraz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:24 -0000

I am sure we'll work out something :)

Re: Zemanta – Faster, better & uncut

andraz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:16:06 -0000

test

Re: A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed

amerkwr — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:40:13 -0000

Andraz, I actually believe that this "reblog" functionality should be disabled by default. I know that it might seem like the best way to "virally" distribute your brand name, just like hotmail did with their one sentence adverts at the bottom of each email sent freely. But embedding it within longer-lifetime blog posts (compared to emails) is not preferable - to me at least.

Nevertheless, you provide an outstanding and unique service. I need to play around with Zemanta API. Seems interesting.

Re: A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed

andraz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:00:32 -0000

@Amer

Zemanta's "reblog" button that we append in every post as to make it rebloggable can be disabled in preferences. Or deleted manually.

Zemanta also offers an API for developers. You can use it to link any text with Freebase, DBpedia, Crunchbase, etc, categorize it, find entities...

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

Re: A Glimpse at Web 3.0: 13 Semantic Web Applications Reviewed

andraz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:58:22 -0000

Hi Bamieh,
I am Andraz, CTO at Zemanta.

Thank you for reviewing Zemanta in this list of great applications that will hopefully shape the future of the web in years to come.

I am wondering as to what do you mean by link spamming? We monitor all the content we index for spam and try very hard to suggest only links to content that is original. If you got suggested anything you didn't expect please let me know the url.
[on that note, I just added this blog to our global index, so it will be recommended to blog writers using Zemanta as a place to link to]

Also to note, Zemanta is not only end-user application, it also offers an API access to its text understanding engine. You can send in text and get back tags, entities, suggested links and images and categories. More about the Zemanta API can be found at http://developer.zemanta.com

Thank you again for this review and whenever you have any questions, let me know (andraz@zemanta.com)!
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

Re: Scanning Headlines

fredwilson — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:56:18 -0000

Hi andraz. I give out my browsing history right here on my blog. Its on the blogrollr widget. Unfortunately my daughter borrowed my laptop and has been visiting fashion blogs!

Re: Scanning Headlines

andraz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:12:16 -0000

User's browsing history might be a great learning set for the aggregators, but are you willing to give that data out?

OTOH it seems that 'social aggregation' is faring much better than fully automatic one, most of the web communities function is 'social aggregation' of data.

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

Re: Yahoo Term Extraction replacement API

andraz — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:52:24 -0000

Hi, thanks for reporting back on your experience.

It seems we have to give out information more clearly :)

The model ... as it says on developer page, you get 10.000 calls per day as soon as you send us an email. Above that the pricing is here: http://www.zemanta.com/api/#pricing

I hope that is straightforward enough :)

bye
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

Re: API outage and Zemanta DNS problems

kenstone — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:15:11 -0000

OK,

Just give me a time when you have one.

I'm in Beijing, and that makes me GMT + 8 hrs

All the best,

Ken

Re: API outage and Zemanta DNS problems

andraz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:08:15 -0000

I've seen you also sent an email. We'll start working on this on monday and contact you by email.

It would definitely be beneficial if we can see it breaking then.

Thank you for your help!
bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

Re: API outage and Zemanta DNS problems

kenstone — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:05:18 -0000

www.safelysourcingchina.com <http://www.safelysourcingchina.com>

Would you like me to reactivate Odiogo *NOW *for you to see the problem?

Ken

Re: API outage and Zemanta DNS problems

andraz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:57:10 -0000

what's your blog url? :)

bye
Andraz, CTO at Zemanta

Re: Making The Web Smarter

andraz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:17:06 -0000

+1 vote from me :)

Re: Making The Web Smarter

fredwilson — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:42:37 -0000

I wonder if we should replace intelligent with smart in our six words

Re: What does Zemanta have to do with Freebase and Balloons?

andraz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:29:21 -0000

Tac,

we also launched "ReBlog this paragraph" ... try clicking on a small icon at the end of the paragraph when you hover over it. I think it's pretty cool innovation, but we need to do more user experience work to make it more obvious and maybe add "Retweet this paragraph". :)

bye
andraz

Re: Making The Web Smarter

ShanaC — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:00:39 -0000

A) Your smiley face made me giggle first thing in the morning. Nothing better than laughter instead of coffee..

B)Thanks- so the answer is a maybe. A lot of what we don't discuss about human language is that it is non-verbal, and there are some fairly universal agreements about specific non-verbal schema. That might be a good starting point.

Have a wonderful day! (or maybe evening) :)