Big Data Mining For Qualitative Factors

My company’s core product (http://www.stremor.com ) is designed to take unstructured data from text and convert it to structured data. But also look at qualitative factors from language and assign them quantitative values. In working on a “detector” to determine if an author was paid to write an article about a company which we got [...]

Frontend and Backend or UI and Application?

A response to this article. If only it were so simple. And if you think it is that’s probably because you don’t understand. Frontend often is WAY more than UI. When you are building a client/server application frontend can be far more than UI. Take Call Of Duty for an example. UI is not appropriate [...]

Managing Burnout

I have been working without rest for a year on a project (http://www.stremor.com) that has had huge amounts of progress. It pays well enough, I like the people I work with, we have achieved great things, and we have gotten recognition. So by all these measures I should have no burn out. I have been [...]

Don’t Use Disrupt If Your Startup Isn’t Disruptive.

The TechCrunch Disrupt conference has always been a strange name for a conference, since almost every startup showing there has been a clone of another larger more popular startup. I have only seen one or two startups I thought had the potential to be disruptive there. I have literally had conversations with founders there that [...]

Melinda Gates Plays Not My Job on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Melinda Gates Doesn’t say this. And that makes all the difference. “When I get up in the morning and I read about death, disease, privation, poverty, I go, Well, it’s not my problem.” No matter the impact on technology. No matter the cool factor of the things they sold. Bill Gates will always be my [...]

How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Money, In Your Spare Time

Have you ever wanted to create a successful startup? Maybe you have the design chops, the cool sense of style, and the ability to get others excited about trends in technology, but can’t find that perfect idea. Something you could execute on quickly. Something you knew there was a buyer for. Summarization. It is the [...]

Things I Learned Building The Most Powerful Language Processing Engine On The Planet

I am the CTO of Stremor, we make TLDR Reader. It takes long content and generates abstracts. This is the least impressive thing it can do, but it is the most public. Building something that can summarize content requires a lot of foundation. SRI that built the smarts behind Summly have been working on this [...]

Review Of The Lenovo Yoga 13 Running Windows 8

I bought a Lenovo Yoga 13, and I love it. This is the best laptop I have ever owned on so many levels. It is light, functional, looks good, runs all my games, and people comment on how they would like one. The Lenovo Yoga 13 combines the productivity of an Ultrabook™ with the touch [...]

How To Upgrade The SSD in the Lenovo Yoga 13

You can upgrade the Lenovo Yoga 13 has spots for 2 SSD! That’s awesome. You could upgrade, but why bother, just add a second one. I love my Lenovo Yoga 13, but it doesn’t ship with enough disk space. Adding an SSD helps a lot. Since 1.8 inch SSD are pretty much only available in [...]

Window 8 Blue Screen Of Death Is Still Blue (but is prettier than before)

I got my first BSOD on Windows 8. The Blue Screen of death is not what it used to be, but it isn’t vastly improved either.

Supporting School Lunches and Getting Kicked Out of Target

Yes, the security at the Target did just ask me to leave. Yes, I was heckling the petitioners in front of the store. Yes I may have called a pregnant lady an idiot, rather loudly. And Yes her husband may have threatened to hit me. And yes I may have told him he shouldn’t make [...]

Finding Success On Etsy: Evangelina’s Closet

What have you built in the last year? My friend Nikki Sattler Case is a great online marketer. While many people are excited that Etsy has made their hobby pay for itself, Nikki has made Evangelina’s Closet a legitimate business. What separates Nikki from all those crafters who just support their habit with their Etsy [...]

Steve Jobs legacy: he personally brought Siri to Apple, saw that Siri had a contextual future

How does Silicon Valley and Apple miss Steve Jobs? Well, on Monday night I was having dinner with Gary Morgenthaler, who was one of the investors in Siri, along with a few Siri team members and I heard stories that they weren’t able to tell me while Steve Jobs was alive. For instance, Jobs called [...]

A Workshifter’s Mantra for Focus

A few weeks ago, I attended the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. While on stage, speaker J.D. Roth made a statement that hit home for me: “It doesn’t matter what we say matters to us. It’s the things we do that are our priorities.” This got me thinking about my own priorities and how [...]

Mobile 3.0 arrives: How Qualcomm just showed us the future of the cell phone (and why iPhone sucks for this new contextual age)

The world just changed yesterday. You probably didn’t notice. But I guarantee strategists at Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google did. What happened? Qualcomm shipped a new contextual awareness platform for cell phones. Yesterday the Mobile 3.0 world arrived. First mobile was the standard old cell phone. You talked into it. The second mobile era [...]

Windows Updates: When Should You Install Them And Are They Worth It?

Several of you noticed that I was not on Windows 7 SP1, and asked why.Besides not liking the background intelligent transfer service, or having my computer reboot in the middle of the night, I like do know that my updates are compatible with my software and that they won’t break a core functionality I was [...]

CloudSleuth.Net Cloud Performance Tests Are Not Helpful In Enterprise Deployment Planning

CloudSleuth released a report about the fastest cloud platforms that is pretty much a waste of time to read. Jon Brodkin’s artictle on Ars Technica is an even bigger waste of time to read because he makes some claims that would provide misinformation to the already skewed interpretation of what Compuware’s data actually means. Jon [...]

How To Start Your First Blog Site With WordPress

With this promo-code BWOPS will get you $97 off of your first years Hosting. At DreamHost.http://749fora.com sells .com domains for $8.49 these are GoDaddy Domains, and I set the price as low as they let me, so I make like 6 cents on your domain purchase. http://explore.live.com/windows-live-writer is where you can download Microsoft Live Writer. [...]

Local Ads And SEM for Small Business, Bigger Organizations And Using YouTube To Promote Also With SEO

As a Small business SEM is about targeting. The problem most first time SEM clients have is that they spend too much rather than picking a laser focused approach, and only expanding their potential spend after they have confirmed what is working. SEO and SEM play a different role for large organizations than it does [...]

What is SEM? Intro To #SEM For Bloggers

SEM for people selling things is easy, but what if you are using SEM to get your website a kick start? SEM for bloggers and content producers can be difficult and has to be used in moderation, but it can have a big impact if done correctly.Setting up an adwords, adcenter, or other online campaign [...]

What is SEO? Introduction For Content Producers #SEO

SEO is an important part of any bloggers growth. Search engine optimization is more than just link building. It is understanding what is and isn’t working on your site, page construction, and planning your future.You can’t just “SEO” once and let it run, SEO is an ongoing part of how your site runs and works. [...]

Forza 4 Review: Full Game Available

Forza 4 now available for Xbox 360.All-new World Tour Mode boasts new tracks, unending choice, and hundreds of hours of gameplay as you travel the globe with your favorite car.Use the controller-free power of Kinect and step through the TV screen and jump into the driver’s seat as you take on the bone-jarring physics, unparalleled [...]

Perfect Hard Boiled / Hard Cooked Eggs In Your Oven

You are going to need patience for this one, these hard boiled eggs take 4 hours to make, but their flavor is unlike anything you have ever had in a boiled egg before. These Hard Cooked eggs have none of the sulfur flavor that hard boiled eggs have, and they keep more of the enzymes [...]

Why You Need A Registry Optimizer / Cleaner / Defragger

A registry optimizer, cleaner, defragmenter is actually something that can help the boot speed of your computer, and prevent slow downs in your system. While you can get along with out a defragger doing a command line export, and swap of the registry, this is not something you can tell your mom to do, and [...]

How to Use SysInternals BGInfo To Put Critical Information On Your Desktop Background

SysInternals BGInfo is freeware from Microsoft Technet. It puts critical information about your system on your desktop background. Follow the link to get the step by step process. BGInfo automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can [...]

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