Archive for June, 2005

Startup

Here we go again. New startup project! No name, no market share, no customers, no distribution system. But a very large growing market at stake.
I cannot tell you the startup name and the product name. I signed a non-disclosure agreement. Let’s just call it Startup Inc. and the Product.
Marketing research shows a great demand [...]

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Anatomy of an Icon

What does it take to create a simple icon? Read “Anatomy of an Icon” by Dan Cederholm (SimpleBits):

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MSN Search Has a Brand New Ranker

MSN introduced RankNet, a new tecnology to rank search results. The algorithm is described in “Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent“. For details, please read MSN Search and Learning to Rank by Greg Linden.
Also, new MSN Search commands are being offered:
FileType – restricts documents to a particular filetype.
InAnchor:, InURL:, InTitle:, and InBody – let [...]

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