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"What was the site? :) Andraz Tori, Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"Oh, I totally forgot to mention one iteration we did before coming to P2P solution. We had access to Amazon SimpleDB while it was still in beta. We did a "use a SimpleDB table as a shared memory" concept. That didn't work well. The problem with SimpleDB for this kind of situation is that read after write will not necessary return what you have just written. And delays were way to long for it to work, we were getting network partitioning all the time, so we were back to the drawing table. However we do use SimpleDB for some other parts of our system. Maybe we'll describe that in one of the future posts." - Andraž Tori

Zelo mi je všeč. Upam, da v bližnji prihodnosti sledita še zastava in grb. - Dušan Omerčević from Bookmarklet

vsebinsko ustrezna, sam a ni mal dolgocasna/brez domisljije? .. no verjetno so to tudi za adidasove tri crtice in nikejev swish rekli :) - Andraž Tori

Všeč mi je primerjava z adidasom in nikeom. To bi bil tudi moj odgovor na tvoj pomislek :) - Dušan Omerčević

"Unfortunately today I can't come to Hadoop meetup. Anyone willing to record it, please? :) However I am now living in San Francisco. Where are you/lucid based?" - Andraž Tori

"Hi tani! Yeah, there needs to be a whole matrix of properties and these solutions laid out on them. This is all about balancing the requirements in one way or another and you can't have it all. It's gonna be a gold mine for writers of white-papers and analysts. However the question for architects right now is which solutions are here to stay and we can bet our infrastructures on. This is even more important than perfect fit to business needs, because when you chose something that goes away and is not maintained anymore you really need to spend a lot of resources to switch. To anyone wanting to know more about CAP theorem, I'd suggest reading http://www.julianbrowne.com/article......" - Andraž Tori

"Whoa, to the point!" - Andraž Tori

"I am sure we'll work out something :)" - Andraž Tori

"test" - Andraž Tori

"@Amer Zemanta's "reblog" button that we append in every post as to make it rebloggable can be disabled in preferences. Or deleted manually. Zemanta also offers an API for developers. You can use it to link any text with Freebase, DBpedia, Crunchbase, etc, categorize it, find entities... bye Andraz Tori, Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"Hi Bamieh, I am Andraz, CTO at Zemanta. Thank you for reviewing Zemanta in this list of great applications that will hopefully shape the future of the web in years to come. I am wondering as to what do you mean by link spamming? We monitor all the content we index for spam and try very hard to suggest only links to content that is original. If you got suggested anything you didn't expect please let me know the url. [on that note, I just added this blog to our global index, so it will be recommended to blog writers using Zemanta as a place to link to] Also to note, Zemanta is not only end-user application, it also offers an API access to its text understanding engine. You can send in text and get back tags, entities, suggested links and images and categories. More about the Zemanta API can be found at http://developer.zemanta.com Thank you again for this review and whenever you have any questions, let me know (andraz@zemanta.com)! Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"User's browsing history might be a great learning set for the aggregators, but are you willing to give that data out? OTOH it seems that 'social aggregation' is faring much better than fully automatic one, most of the web communities function is 'social aggregation' of data. bye Andraz Tori, Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"Hi, thanks for reporting back on your experience. It seems we have to give out information more clearly :) The model ... as it says on developer page, you get 10.000 calls per day as soon as you send us an email. Above that the pricing is here: http://www.zemanta.com/api... I hope that is straightforward enough :) bye Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"I've seen you also sent an email. We'll start working on this on monday and contact you by email. It would definitely be beneficial if we can see it breaking then. Thank you for your help! bye Andraz Tori, Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"what's your blog url? :) bye Andraz, CTO at Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"+1 vote from me :)" - Andraž Tori

"Tac, we also launched "ReBlog this paragraph" ... try clicking on a small icon at the end of the paragraph when you hover over it. I think it's pretty cool innovation, but we need to do more user experience work to make it more obvious and maybe add "Retweet this paragraph". :) bye andraz" - Andraž Tori

"Looking at the development of the web and how it improved our lives in last two decades, I think there is every reason for optimism! Compared to 60 years ago we were given a number of superhuman powers. Search through the 8 billion pages of human knowledge in a second? Taking a look at every corner of the planet from your chair in a second? Sending a message to any of your friends no matter where they are in a second? Intelligence is not what we desperately need from computers. We merely need usefulness. We need intelligence to achieve usefulness sometimes, but the history has shown that even without perfect AI and just employing "smart solutions" there are so many advances that can profoundly affect our lives! So Fred, I think your use of word "smarter" instead of "intelligent" in the post title was a smart choice. "Intelligent" still seems to be quite far away." - Andraž Tori

"It's funny, when you are dealing with datasets that you use for computer to learn (for example texts marked up with all mentions of places, people and companies), there's a thing called "human-to-human agreement". You basically give different humans the same seemingly easy task that needs 'understanding'. Then you see how similar their results are. You'd be surprised how different those results can be. These tests show a limit that humans have on understanding each other [without additional conversation to refine it]. And those are the upper limits, and computer's state of the art is way below them (depending on the type of task). So for full understanding of natural language in all cases you are placing a super-human requirements on computers. It's way too early for such questions. :) bye Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"It's about assistance. Computer assisting humans on different levels at different tasks. content discovery (Adaptive Blue, Outsidein) and content creation (Zemanta) are both great places to improve the level of help computers can offer. Web search already provides everyone with superhuman abilities in information processing! Now the question is what are other activities that can be massively improved (revolutionized?) by new approaches. While most of the web until now was concentrated around sites and services, a new wave of web technologies has been created that helps with getting stuff done faster and better, wherever you are. Siri, Zemanta and others. This was largely overlooked area of technology until recently. The question is not can we deliver fully intelligent agent, but can computers help more than ever, because they have better data than ever, better algorithms than ever and better deployment options than ever. Semantic web, tags, are one part of the story: they mean better..." - Andraž Tori

Awesome! - Kiran Patchigolla

Common Tag is primarily aimed at consumer content, not so much for internal enterprise use, albeit I can see ways how to use it there too. But the point is that the web-exposed data becomes standardized. - Andraž Tori

I hear it's all organic, doesn't contain high-fructose corn syrup and no animals were harmed in the making of (good thing programmers aren't considered animals). - Tac Anderson

LOL - Anika

Well, our Pleo was actually harmed some time ago (fell off the table), but our best hw guy fixed it. Otherwise we are animal-friendly company. And we give even more special care to nearly-extinct species such as Pleo:) - Andraž Tori

"I agree with your concerns. I think recommendation/personalization is not that hard to do. Look at Amazon or Netflix, both are doing pretty darn good job at knowing what you might like, with technology available today (and even widely documented). So I believe that as soon as you can have enough feedback (ratings) you can do pretty good recommendations... And yeah best results have been achieved with blended methods (if you look at Netflix challenge competitors - the best were ones using both statistics and more structured data) Agreed that Twitter is crossing the chasm. It is a proof that there are still new and undiscovered needs out there. Btw: you should link to others, it gets you friends, so your blog will not be lonely anymore :) bye Andraz Tori" - Andraž Tori

"Hi Chris, While Web 3.0 is poorly defined, that should not prevent us from articulating what we want from the web at large. I think first demos of Siri look like something that would really change the game of 'getting stuff done'. And while not based exclusively on semantic technologies, they are leveraged there too. Maybe 'all semantic' approaches are not what will rock the web in the future, but the right mixes... Many statistical methods have semantics as an output - a lot of people have hard time understanding that numerical model can in fact represent soft semantic understanding of certain object, event or action. Oh, and I'd also like to invite you to try out Zemanta for yourself! We see it as one of first fruits to grow on the field seeded by great data provided by semantic web efforts. bye Andraz Tori, Zemanta" - Andraž Tori

"Divergence and convergence will be with us all the time. The same solutions don't work for everyone. This becomes the issue if this divergence is imposed by third parties - especially legislation, since that stops the progres without the possibility of going around the problem. For example, when RIAA companies embrace capitalism they will let Last.fm pay smaller license for streaming to guy in Croatia, since something is still better then nothing [especially when the price for RIAA is literary nothing]. So most of these problems will be solved by themselves in long term, as long as we keep local legislators from messing it up. bye Andraz Tori" - Andraž Tori

can you help us fix it? Can you describe the problem? - Andraž Tori

ok thanks for this information. we had connectivity problems for half an hour 5 hours ago. I was afraid that we somehow interfered with the post itself, so we are now relieved! It should not happen any more. - Andraž Tori

Last night I needed headshots of two blogger friends and it quickly retrieved some nice ones off of Flickr. Earlier in the day I wanted a shot of the famed Rendezvous BBQ Nachos from Memphis's Redbirds baseball park and Zemanta unearthed a great CC-licensed shot which happened to have been uploaded by someone I know. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Holy smokes, what a great tool! Never heard of Zemanta before, but can't wait to get home tonight to start using it with my WordPress blog. Thanks, Daniel! - Mark Traphagen

"Let me get this straight, you buy 3G net access (let's say a modem) from T-mobile and they prevent you from using skype over it? Some serious regulation is needed here. The trouble with bandwidth? I am sure they can have a pricing scheme that will take that into account. Yes this would be a bit of a pushback for flat fee plans, but eventually competition will bring them back. bye andraz" - Andraž Tori

"Well, the instructions are so simple, just "drag and drop" ... what else it is to it? :)" - Andraž Tori

Wow - that is interesting. Content is content, regardless of source. - Hutch Carpenter

Well we now just launched first of new types of content we support - music via last.fm rich widgets. some more in the pipeline :) - Andraž Tori

"Hmmm, it's in release notes, labeled as "Important": http://blog.scribefire.com/whats-n... Probably more could be done about this, I'll suggest this to our Scribefire friends. About stats. There are some obvious standard statistics candidates. And then there are stats that might or might not be feasible - reporting how many times article was suggested to other Zemanta users, how many times it was included, where that was etc. Maybe even who snapped your content verbatim? These are mainly things that need infrastructural work on our part. It's more complicated that it seems and we have to see what's feasible to implement (within the resources available). The idea is to provide more value to the authors (and some stats about product use to us). We are two tiny startups and we want to do all these things, but this takes some time. You are right, we should be doing more in both implementation and informing the authors, and we'll try hard! In the mean time, I'd like to ask you to bear..." - Andraž Tori