May 29, 2007 | In: Java
Taste is a great framework for collaborative filtering. We are going to be launching a new recommendation algorithm on our site (MyFriendSuggests.com) in the coming weeks (Stay Tuned!) based on the Taste framework. Taste provides a User-based and...
May 13, 2007 | In: General Technology, Web Development, Website Marketing
I'm not much of a reader, but I just read a book Founders At Work, by Jessica Livingston. It's basically a bunch of interviews done with various people who led some of the biggest startups of the past 10-20 years. I found it to be a real...
May 5, 2007 | In: Java, Scraping, Website Marketing
As we've seen in my posts for scraping AOL, GMail and Yahoo, each site has its own "tricks" that make it challenging to scrape contact information from. The final site in this series of posts is for Hotmail. Hotmail is one of the trickier...
May 3, 2007 | In: Java, Scraping, Website Marketing
In our previous posts we've looked at how to scrape both Yahoo! and AOL webmail for a list of contacts given a username and password. This technique can be critical in growing your user base by allowing your users to invite many friends in one quick...