Posted by jure, under technology on October 12th, 2008
I spent last week at a number of events organized by different groups of people around social media. One of the most often question I got asked was, how do we offer our images to bloggers using Zemanta?
Essentially there are three sources you can try to get images into:
Getty Images
Wikimedia Commons (that includes English Wikipedia)
Flickr [...]
Posted by jure, under technology on August 29th, 2008
A few days ago Mozilla Labs announced initial preview of Project Ubiquity that allows you to dynamically create powerful combinations of Website mashup in your Firefox with just a few keystrokes. If you’re not familiar with the project, take a look at the video they created:
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Now that you fully [...]
Posted by andraz, under technology on August 19th, 2008
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Cyc is one of the most notorious projects in artificial intelligence. Now spanning for over 20 years it has yet to deliver on initial promise of human-reasoning capabilities. While initial goals were too ambitious, we should still be quite happy with the achievements. Especially now when it seems Cycorp (owner of Cyc) [...]
Posted by andraz, under technology on November 24th, 2007
How do you test a complex system that is trying to mimic being smart?
You want to automate testing, so you have your quality meter available for every little change you make. While having unit tests helps catching classical programming regressions, the major part of the challenge is having ’smart part’ under control. Unfortunately the [...]
Posted by andraz, under technology on November 17th, 2007
It is interesting to see how during development we are moving back and forth between ‘better job of suggesting’ to ‘faster suggesting’. A cycle seems to last around two weeks. Currently we are in optimization part of it. Just yesterday Tomaz had a breakthrough getting one component that took 10 seconds per request (the biggest [...]
Posted by andraz, under technology on November 3rd, 2007
Building web services is fun. You can have them fast, secure, reliable, scalable, maintainable and sexy. Pick any two.
As our first goal we had much less ambitious requirement: “working”. Few nights this week were pretty intense, but we have done it - moved the technology to the English language. At this point in time I’d [...]
