Via @glinden, I enjoyed this article on why GDrive (an early cloud document/file store) was never launched by Google: At the time , Google was about to launch a project it had been developing for...
http://irgupf.com/2011/06/10/they-won-people-over-by-logical-argument/
Here are the five top posts on this blog for 2010, in order: Kasparov and Good Interaction Design Search Versus Recommendation: Not the Only Tension More on Simplicity and the Paradox of Choice W...
I came across an interesting blogpost today, entitled “The Paradox of Choice is Not Robust“. To requote their quote: Benjamin Scheibehenne, a psychologist at the University of Basel, was th...
http://irgupf.com/2010/06/23/more-on-simplicity-and-the-paradox-of-choice/
A tweet by @akumar prompted me to punch up this quick blogpost: as with all controversial issues, there’s a positive in google trying bing/image – that they’re not afraid to learn from comp...
http://irgupf.com/2010/06/10/simplicity-sparsity-or-storytelling/
What is Social Search as opposed to Social Media? Social Search in Media? Search in Social Media? Next week, Gene Golovchinsky and I are moderating a pair of panels at the SSM workshop. So ...
There is a fantastic Google blog post today by Jonathan Rosenberg on the meaning (and value) of openness. Whooo-boy.. where do we start with this can of worms? Guess I’ll jump right in. W...
http://irgupf.com/2009/12/22/google-and-the-meaning-of-open/
I’ve been playing around with some old TREC data over the past few days and completely by chance I came across this document. I find it interesting because storytelling is a good metaphor for...
Jeff Dalton recently wrote about why he doesn’t want your search log data. It is an interesting read, and I recommend going through the whole article and comments. But I want to call attent...
I’ve added a couple of updates to my previous post about the “Google Discover Music” service that is launching today. See also Paul’s writeup. But I have been reading Danny’s Sullivan...
http://irgupf.com/2009/10/28/doing-to-music-what-they-did-to-the-web/
I split my blogging between this and the FXPAL blog. This morning I have a post on the latter site that asks an (imho) important question about data ownership and data liberation with respect t...