mostly research stuff
so remember when i talked about star38 a while back? the owner got some death threats from the hacker community (hackers have been doing this for a long time, they call it “orange boxing“)…whole Star38 thing turned ‘commercial only‘ and now caters to law enforcement (as in, no longer open to the public)…but whatever came [...]
ever heard of this firm pretrieve? …for the very serious public records consumers out there, consider this new tool to be like the bob’s big boy for information gourmands…i’ve yet to see anything like it for public records metasearch, and i’ve seen a lotta tries - but most cost a lotta money…pretrieve does not charge [...]
…okay, that’s a bit dramatic…the smart (and sassy?) researchers over at columbia university have been working on this program for several years called newsblaster…it’s a project from the natural language processing group, and has received moola from darpa and the nsf…oh, please do not confuse it with tools like news from elGoog, it’s much smarter…
there’s [...]
..my main issue with desktop search has been lack of support for qualcomm’s eudora, the venus williams of email applications…i concocted one solution a while back which does work, but it’s labor intensive…and yeah, x1 offers eudora search, but they cost money and suck…and yes, there are other choices if you don’t mind separating from [...]
got a nifty email from hjalli over at spurl last week…he’s launched a sister site to spurl at zniff.com…per hjalli, “the first version of a search engine that uses the data from the Spurl.net database as a source for its indexes” (here’s the old announcement, when it was just a hatchling…)
what does that mean? over [...]
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...