I agree with you that search is not really done yet. We still have a long way to go. I will take a look at xyggy.com and try to understand what you are doing. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Dorai

I just saw your comment on http://www.thingsontop.com/help-design-topology-search-concepts-677.html about search concepts. I have a post waiting moderation on that site and have also read your blog post on the subject. One search category not covered is “item search” where the query consists of items and the results are items (in ranked order to how similar or close they are to the query items). This is what we are building at http://www.xyggy.com and there are 5 demos on the site that show this for different item types – images, patents, music, newswires and movies.

In text search, the smallest unit of query is the word (or keyword) and we can enter multiple keywords into a query. You can also do the same with our item search ie. enter multiple items per query. Go ahead and try it.

Imagine, finding patents that are similar to your query patent not by whether it contains a certain set of keywords? Replace the word ‘patent’ with ‘document’ and the same applies. Imagine a database of non-vocal sounds with no textual information and being able to find similar sounds?

We live in both the analog and digital worlds that contain items and text. Search should be about both text and items.

Dinesh

Dinesh

1. I use a Twitter client in my outlook (and once in a while the web client/tweedeck/twhirl). But you can do this with any email plug-in for twitter.
2. There is an option to organize tweets by authors.
3. So I first read the ones that I really want. These include the people I often interact with, a few people whom I admire
4. search and eliminate all offers for getting more followers, people reporting about their eating, sleeping, waiting in airports and all the other personal trivia
5. If you observe long enough, there are some posting patterns and interest patterns. Pick the ones that match your interests

The good ones, fortunately post less and post good stuff. I love people that make me think, introduce me to more exciting people to follow (by retweeting their requests). I ignore followfridays completely. I would rather get recommendations in context.

There are lots of opportunities to do interesting things on Twitter – building a brand, sharing and caring, interacting with people, finding specific information. The only tools today are search and a few groups. Friendfeed in some ways is a better resource with some useful discussion threads. More later.

1. I use a Twitter client in my outlook (and once in a while the web client/tweedeck/twhirl). But you can do this with any email plug-in for twitter.
2. There is an option to organize tweets by authors.
3. So I first read the ones that I really want. These include the people I often interact with, a few people whom I admire
4. search and eliminate all offers for getting more followers, people reporting about their eating, sleeping, waiting in airports and all the other personal trivia
5. If you observe long enough, there are some posting patterns and interest patterns. Pick the ones that match your interests

The good ones, fortunately post less and post good stuff. I love people that make me think, introduce me to more exciting people to follow (by retweeting their requests). I ignore followfridays completely. I would rather get recommendations in context.

There are lots of opportunities to do interesting things on Twitter – building a brand, sharing and caring, interacting with people, finding specific information. The only tools today are search and a few groups. Friendfeed in some ways is a better resource with some useful discussion threads. More later.

I a 31dBBB proggram member. In the Forum there, you wrote “Twitter is a goldmine if you manage not to get buried underneath.” ….

My question: … I’d love your ideas about how not to get buried in it … and how best to “mine the gold”.

Thanks for your advice.

Wishing you a great day,

Ravi
Ravi [at] peaceinourhand {dot} org

you post

I understand you are in Chennai now. How do I touch base with you for any kind of discussion?

Thanks in advance,
-Sucharitha

Cheers,
Vaibhav

How did you locate my blog?

Dorai

Best

Bhojaraju

I am thinking of starting another blog called “IdeaLog” and start blogging about them too.

Dorai

I´m a spanish blogger, that rights about new tendences and tec. on graphic arts industry.

My blog have 2 years, and some hundred post and comments, I have read you about “Blogs for Idea Mining”, what have you done about it?

Thank you

http://www.blografico.com

I recently launched a new website http://techmein.com which aggregates content from top Indian tech blogs. I sincerely feel that your blog too needs to be added to my blogs list. However, since your blog does not provide a RSS feed URL, I am unable to do so.

Will it be possible for you to provide your feed so that I may be able to add your blog in the Live-Ticker on my blog?

Thanks