Josh Young

Focusing on consumer-facing industries, we forge new businesses behind disruptive business models and apply the resource necessary to revitalize existing businesses with revolutionary, bold new ideas. - Josh Young

Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors, acting like aggregators. The NYT is developing a version of the home page, called Times Extra, to be published using Blogrunner, acquired in 2005. - Josh Young

What studying Radiohead (and licking pieces of vinyl) can teach us about the future of the music business--and the news business. "You've got to figure out where the party is and set yourself up to be the one hosting it." - Josh Young

The fundamental issue with Digg: The most committed will always have the most control. Digg may continue to grow in traffic and size, but with every controversial move like the recent bannings, it will irritate a continually growing contingent of its most ardent supporters. Unless Digg can find a way to embrace its fans rather than eliminate them, it will find its brand promise as the leader of news democratization fading fast. - Josh Young

This is the complete collection of all my jazz photos available on Flickr, each instrument a different set. All the photos were taken from 1962 to 1974, during performances in Italy or nearby countries (Switzerland and France). - Josh Young

The Daily Beast promises to "sift" and "curate" the unruly Internet. Opinions came in almost immediately. NY Post. Gawker twice. Philly's Daily News. FishbowlNY. WSJ blog. The Guardian. Wired. LAT. Chi Trib. NYT obvi. - Josh Young

My name is Lauren. I'm a girl. I play the guitar. I have a white cat named Lola. I hate static electricity and mosquitoes (who doesn't?) but I love chuck taylors and guacamole. - Josh Young

One blog puts more boots on the ground than any commercial news operation. The writers bring more background, savvy and commitment to the case. And they dominate in coverage of a big news event. Journalists themselves use it to keep up and get their bearings. - Josh Young

"I’ve come to feel word of mouth is reshaping media and culture and we’re building a site where the rationale is word of mouth," Brown said. "Ultimately this will work—or not—depending on whether you like the sensibility of the people choosing it." - Josh Young

Consider an obvious question at a time of towering informational clutter: “Why should I visit the Daily Beast when there’s already Slate/Drudge/Huffington Post/TPM/Google News and every other magazine and newspaper?” Her answer: “Sensibility, darling.” Ah, yes, Darling: sensibility is Ms. Brown’s game. - Josh Young

Tina Brown praises other aggregators—Real Clear Politics, HuffPo, A&L Daily—“but there is still room for more meta-aggregation with a distinctive voice just as there was always room for another magazine with a distinctive point of view." She says, "There’s nothing wrong with algorithms," but "it is the time for editors to reassert themselves." - Josh Young

Tina Brown has worked in the US for more than two decades, but she remains at heart a Brit of an earlier generation, pickled in ink and arch wit. Backed by old patron Barry Diller of IAC, her news site is The Daily Beast, named after the shameless tabloid of Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop. - Josh Young

This talk will introduce and discuss methods for matrix decomposition and dimension reduction that address these questions. Several example applications illustrate the fruitfulness of this class of methods and demonstrate the effectiveness of decomposition techniques. The latter will include (i) estimating document-specific language models in ad hoc retrieval, (ii) deriving topic-centered document representations for document categorization, (iii) decomposing user preferences for collaborative filtering, (iv) learning stochastic models for hyperlink and paper citation graphs. - Josh Young

For most of history, world population grew slowly, if at all. Despite a quadrupling of the population in the past century, the number of people alive today is still dwarfed by the number of people who have ever lived. People alive today compose only 6 percent - Josh Young

This report outlines a broad new vision for what newspaper companies must become if they are to survive in today's heavily disrupted media landscape: become local information and connection utilities. - Josh Young

The two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent this financial crisis from happening in the first place. - Josh Young

The US created the Internet, but it’s the rest of the world that can really use it. The reason things went wrong is that we haven’t regulated our telecom markets properly. That’s partly McCain's fault. Obama, however, is something of a geek. - Josh Young

Freebase is an open, semantically marked up database of information that we called one of the "10 semantic apps to watch" last year. Unlike Wikipedia, which is a free form database, Freebase is structured, where concepts and relationships are interlinked into a gigantic network or graph. Freebase is all about its API. - Josh Young

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to make sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. - Josh Young

Salon unveiled a new platform of blogs written by the people formerly known as its audience—with one attention-grabbing feature. The platform, dubbed “Open Salon,” lets readers tip a blogger for a well-written post. - Josh Young

You can simply tell us what you care about, provide us an endpoint, and we’ll push those full activities to you in real time. Data aggregators are no longer required to build one-off integrations, relying on Gnip push relevant data to you and focus your efforts on vital front-end work. - Josh Young