Kevin Burton has been working on a new ranking system for webpages to help sort through the data overload faced by readers. TailRank is currently in an experimental stage and using the Wikipedia database to make sense of a known set of about 800,000 articles. Kevin is currently looking to expand TailRank to the world of weblogs and eventually to the people behind those weblogs. He would ideally like to link authors to their multiple blogs, podcasts, events, and jobs for a more complete view of online activity and content of interest. Kevin needs some servers. He is a huge…
Richard Koman interviewed Stewart Butterfield of Flickr about how people use Flickr through the site, APIs, and how Flickr will make a business out of photo sharing. Flickr has 3.5 million photos, 82 percent are public. 71 percent of the photos have some kind of human-added metadata that was added in Flickr….
Amazon.com introduced Alexa Web Information Service and updated Amazon E-Commerce Service. Alexa Web Information service allows for retrieval of site information such as popularity, related sites, detailed usage/traffic stats, supported character-set/locales, site contact information, meta data, and a list of links in and out of the site. The service is currently free and allows 10,000 requests per subscription ID per day. Check out the SDK page for more information. Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 allows access to detailed product attributes, product images, customer reviews, and attribute search. The service is free and you may make no more than one request to…
