Geeking with Greg

E. Michael Maximilien has a post, " Extreme Agility at Facebook ", on blog@CACM . The post reports on a talk at OOPSLA by Robert ...

An upcoming paper, "The Case for RAMClouds: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM" ( PDF ), makes some interesting ne...

Paul Graham has a fantastic article up, " What Startups Are Really Like ", with the results of what happened when he asked all the...

An amusingly titled paper to be presented at the CSS 2009 conference, "Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover" ( ...

This is the end of my Starting Findory series. Findory was my first startup and a nearly five year effort. Its goal of personalizing info...

A recent paper from SIGIR, "The Wisdom of the Few: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Expert Opinions from the Web" ( PDF...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been talking quite a bit about personalization in online news recently. First, Eric said : We and the industry ...

Google Fellow Jeff Dean gave a keynote talk at LADIS 2009 on "Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems"...

I don't know much about analyzing music streams to find similar music, which is part of why I much enjoyed reading "Content-Based M...

Security guru Bruce Schneier has a great post up, " The Commercial Speech Arms Race ", on the difficulty of eliminating spam in so...

Nick Carr writes of our communication hell, starting with "the ring of your phone would butt into whatever you happened to be doing at...

[I wrote a draft of this post nearly two years ago as part of my Starting Findory series, but did not publish it at the time; it seemed ina...

UC Berkeley Professor Marti Hearst has a great new book out, " Search User Interfaces ". The book is a survey of recent work in s...

Despite frequently appearing together at conferences, it is fairly rare to see public debate on technology and technique between people from...

It has been a long time coming, but Google finally started personalizing their AdWords search advertising to the past behavior of searchers...

I have a new post up at blog@CACM, " Frequent releases change software engineering ", on why software companies should consider de...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has a very interesting presentation, " Our Freedom & Responsibility Culture ", with some thought-pro...

Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael Schrage at MIT Sloan Management Review have an interesting take on the value of A/B tests in their article, ...

I have a new post at blog@CACM titled, " Is advertising inherently deceptive? " It discusses some of the moral and ethical qualms...

It looks like we have a Microsoft-Yahoo deal . If you smack two amorous giants together enough times, I guess you are going to get a love c...