Archive for August, 2008
Pagerank isn’t for humans
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 | Programming, university | 1 Comment
Transitioning from a web of links and a sequence of words to a web of content, meaning and knowledge is probably the next great moving that we are going to see on the next two or maybe three years.
I was chatting with a friend, how can we bring knowledge to the web, how can we use the web to make a really efficient human driven search engine, last week a few former Googlers made some noise about a totally new SE named cuil, I tried some queries on that page, but it does work almost like google, you must be pretty much binary to retrieve some interesting information, in another words, nothing has changed since 90’s on this area. This problem is around researcher’s minds for a long time, trust, influence, authority when applied to the web are essentially people based issues.
The propose is the content being an asset with information about what it really means running against the link/words algorithms with no explicit meaning and a simple assumption “yes … we know you’re a good reference because you have a lot of links”.
Make yourself a question, how to ask something? How do I ask for information?
You ask your close friend: “Sunday night guitar red cap TV?” when you really want to know about the Sunday night TV show where a girl with a funny red cap playing a guitar. Things does change when you bring meaning to it, thats what a human being does.
Indeed, Google is still leading this running, with several fields under extreme research, articles about Data Mining, Collective Intelligence and AI being published denotes the new approach.
Yes … things are about to change 
Welcome to Django… conference
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 | Programming | No Comments
DjangoCon is the first official international Django conference. It aims to bring together the community and provide a wide range of sessions, panels, lightning talks and showcases of Django usage within various businesses. The first DjangoCon will be on September 6-7, 2008 in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex.
After losing the first registration day I constantly pissed of Robert Lofthouse about the registration site’s stability. So, for those who will attend the conference, see you there.
Ps: Is there another brazilian going to the conference?