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Category Archives: Software
Recommended: migrate from apache to nginx
During the last couple of weeks I was having issues with the load on my webservers. The problems were mainly caused by Apache eating a lot of memory. As Apache was already pretty much optimized and I didn’t feel like … Continue reading
Searching through video’s with speech-to-text
Speech recognition is one of those technologies which has been around for quite a while, but has not yet found it’s way to large-scale utilization in the industry. Yes, we’ve probably all talked to a computer of the airline reservation … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Research, Search, Software
Tagged exalead, Search, speech to text, video
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New exalead website and product offering
Yesterday Exalead released a new website, great compliment to my colleague’s who worked on this project. I think the new site is a huge improvement compared to the old one and it provides a perfect overview of Exalead’s (new) product … Continue reading
We feel fine! Visualizing human feelings
We feel fine is an interesting project which analyses recent blogposts and extracts information about what the world is currently feeling. Fun idea and I think they did a great job on the user interface: “Every few minutes, the system … Continue reading
Posted in Software, Web2.0
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How Yahoo, Microsoft and Google fight for your browser settings
In this post of Andy Beal, Yahoo is being accused of dirty tactics to switch the default search provider when people install a new version of Yahoo Messenger. I totally agree that Yahoo is not behaving very well here, but … Continue reading
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W3C working draft for Widgets
Via ajaxian, I read about a new working draft from the W3C: Widgets 1.0. Everyone and their mother have created their own widget specifications, and now as a developer you need to make choices. Do you want it to work … Continue reading
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Wikipedia articles on Google earth
Nice idea: grab all wikipedia articles which are enriched with geo-coordinates and make the information accessible within Google Earth. That’s exactly what Stefan Kühn has done! The KMZ-file can be downloaded from his website and you can easily import that … Continue reading
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IE7 final release, now comes with add-ons
As announced earlier this month, Microsoft was ready to release a final version of Internet Explorer 7. Well, they’ve kept their word. It is available for download since a couple of days ago. I’ve just installed it, not a real … Continue reading
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Internet Explorer 7 to be released this month
Microsoft recently announced that IE7 will be released this month. Although I’m a firefox user, I must say that I am very happy to hear this. I like to build webapps in some spare hours and there are times when … Continue reading