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For those of you that have not found the DemoGirl site, I recommend checking it out. Molly does 2-3 minute screencasts on new sites so others can quickly check out the site and its functionality without having to sign-up or go there. While Summize has no sign-up barrior for people to use it, we do love seeing her talk about some of the great features and uses of our product.
The CIKM 2008 deadline is almost up. This year is going to be great with the venue being in Napa Valley. I thought our call for papers on our web site would be interesting to check out. Also, I am running this years Industry track so if you have something interesting for the conference please submit it.
InfoScale 2008 is almost here (June 4th - 6th 2008). We are now putting together our program and thought a quick preview of the keynotes and papers would be interesting. First, the little blurb on the focus of InfoScale:
"The Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems will focus on a wide array of scalability issues and investigate new approaches to tackle problems arising from the ever-growing size and complexity of information of all kinds. "
Last night we launched a local operator for our twitter search, enabling you to search within tweets near a location. For example, you can find what people are saying about Obama near:oregon while he campaigns there. The easiest way to find this operator is to use our advanced search page, there you will see an input box with "near this place." Just fill it in with your city, state, zip, etc. along with what you are looking for. Adam Ostrow and Danny Sullivan have already done a great job of reviewing this feature, but we wanted to provide some clarification here about exactly how it works.
We just did a joint post with R*W*W* on what people talk about on twitter. We found three types of conversations. Status updates of every day activities like "getting coffee" or "check out this post on X" etc. Second, short term memes where many people talk about some event before, during or after it. These conversations are usually short lived, from a few minutes to hours. For example a TV show like "Lost" will have some buzz, before during and after the show airs but drop out of the stream very quickly. Third are long term memes of interest that people talk about for days. Politics or new games are great examples of these longer term thoughts being expressed. Check out the full post.
This year I am running several conferences and it has caused me to ask this question: can science move faster? Today most scientists have far more compute power (peta-flops) than they did a few years ago and yet the many scientific processes are no faster than before. For example last year (2007) I had my very first 2009 publication. Thats right in 2009 a year from now a journal paper that was written in 2006 will come out, so is science really keeping up with other related progresses?
