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Re: Million dollar vacation package by the Emirates Palace resort in Abu Dhabi

Zoltan — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:01:53 -0000

7 nights at The Emirates Palace but the trip starts in London and the whole trip is 28 days long

Re: Luxury Hopkinton Massachusetts Home ($950,000)

Zoltan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:29:22 -0000

Nicholas - It was listed for $950,000. Please check with the listing agent/broker for current for sale status and pricing. Original list price and link is in the post. Thanks

Re: Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione

Zoltan — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:13:08 -0000

BTW. The Ferrari Formula 1 above was driven by Alan Prost during the 1990 F1 season in Japan

Re: Sunny Sprawling Ranch in Garden City, NY

Zoltan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:03:48 -0000

Steve - please click-through to the property website: use the "See more photos, current for-sale status and additional information" link in the post and contact the listing agent on that page. Thx

Re: One million Twitter posts for sale. $1 each

Zoltan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:28:18 -0000

Rich - It came through this time. Thanks

Re: Facebook Responds to Criticism Over Latest Redesign

Zoltan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:44:49 -0000

Agree that organizing friends lists is the key to the new UI. A hard to find feature is that you can drag the list e.g. Inner Circle to the top (on the left) and then your FB homepage only shows updates from this list by default. It's the best way to eliminate the noise. I guess, only a very small percentage of the users know and do this. It's not obvious, neither intuitive with the current design.

Re: Million dollars per acre in Malibu, CA

Zoltan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:42:30 -0000

It is hard to argue that !

Thanks, the article is corrected. Less sensational, more accurate :)

Re: 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante to go on auction in February

Zoltan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:14:15 -0000

Thank you James for checking in and for the additional information.

Re: Degas’s “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” to be sold by Sotheby’s

Zoltan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:24:25 -0000

Results are in: The “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” is sold for 13,257,250 GBP ($19,152,749) including buyer's premium.

Re: The Shelby auction is live

Zoltan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:30:17 -0000

OK. We were off with our $500K estimate. The winning bid was $160,100

Re: The Shelby auction is live

Zoltan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:43:32 -0000

30 bids - price at $131K with more than 24 hours to go.

Re: The Shelby auction is live

Zoltan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:23:18 -0000

5 bidders for the Shelby Black Hornet already with 2 days to go. It should get intense at the end.

Re: Three Zeng Fanzhi paintings sell today at Sotheby’s

Zoltan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:58:00 -0000

Hi Pino, I love his work as well.

Re: 3 Bugatti Veyron supercars for sale on eBay

Zoltan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:54 -0000

So which color do you like?

Re: Ferrari F50 Coupe Listed on eBay for $985,000

Zoltan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0000

Here is another F50 which was sold recently
http://www.whatonemillionbu...

Re: McLaren F1 breaks record at the Automobiles of London auction

Zoltan — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:03:29 -0000

Event results are in from RM Auctions.

See: http://www.rmauctions.com/a...

Re: Exceptional quality and impressive, well built home ($1,099,000)

Zoltan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:23:17 -0000

Yes. We have a current range of $950K-$1.1M for the time being. It's an artificial price range, of course. We may restrict it more in the future, once we have more listings closer to $1M

Re: McLaren F1 on the auction block on October 29

Zoltan — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:11:16 -0000

Talking about classic race cars: The 1964 Porsche 904 GTS Coupé raced by Robert Buchet will be listed for sale with a high estimate of about 600,000 GBP ($1,075,260)

More details at http://www.bonhams.com

Re: Another Reventon spotted. This time in Houston, TX

Zoltan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:20:54 -0000

I received a reply from the dealer. The Reventon is listed for $1.4 million and based on the previous 3 Reventon sales, the car can go for $200K to $600K over this list price.

Re: A Better Blog Comment System: Disqus

Zoltan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:27:54 -0000

Joe: Saw this on FeedPot. FOREM is using now Disqus. Valid question thoguh. Robert Murphy shared a good post on Twitter about comment ownership: http://snurl.com/2jwvz
Makes the topic even more exciting (technical and copyright issues as well)

Re: Five Quick Hits to Keep You Going

Zoltan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:39:45 -0000

Thanks for the BuddyPress share. I have been waiting for it for a while.

Re: The power of links and the value of global knowledge

Zoltan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:41:25 -0000

Great post. I am researching this topic for my upcoming post about the growing importance of ranking content by the social graph. PageRank assumed that there are two group of users out there: Authors and Readers, i.e. if a relevant content to a keyword is linked to another content (Author has the authority and the control over this), than the linked content must be somewhat relevant as well. With user generated content, the division between authors and readers are not that obvious. PageRank values the explicit, intentional connection between content with weight on the authority , while SocialRank will put more and more value on social relationship between contents, that is, contents which are "linked" through the social graph. Furthermore, while the Facebook and LinkedIn etc. connections are mostly explicit (I declare that you are my friend and vica versa) there are a mass of implicit social relationships out there as well.

Is the fact, that I left this comment on your post establishes a "relationship" between you and me? If so, does my related blog post will be considered more relevant? Not due to backlinking which is probably "nofollow" anyways, but due to our "social relationship"? What is the weight of this relationship? How do you rate qualitative and quantitative metrics on implicit relationships like this? Does it strengthen the connection between you and me if you reply to this comment, i.e. you accept my "relationship"? What about ad-hoc and temporary relationships? What kind of standards can be used to expose implicit relationships? The FB API and OpenSocial and FOAF etc. seems to deal with explicit connections only (I am your friend and you are mine and we agreed on this), at least at the implementation level.

I wrote about this a year ago in a much smaller context at http://realbird.typepad.com...

Since then many new standards have been created (FB API, OpenSocial, Google's API for searching FOAF etc.) which will enable the next generation of search engines to evolve.

The biggest challenge here, as you said, is that the noise-to-signal ratio is several magnitude higher when dealing with ad-hoc and implicit connections.