http://www.pui.ch/phred Philipp Kellers weblog Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my last post I argued that online bookmarking services (delicious, simpy, ma.gnolia et al.) are the wrong tool for remembering web pages with no clear future usage. I guess the altered xkcd comic sums it up best: As a consequence I just considered solutions that don't make me decide which page ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/11/remembering-on-the-web-4-alternatives-to-online-bookmarking.html One common task while browsing the web is making sure you will be able to recall a valuable information you are just looking at. This article aims to prove that social bookmarking as in delicious, simpy, magnolia et al. is the wrong tool for that task. Clarification According to comments here and ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/10/remembering-on-the-web-5-reasons-why-social-bookmarking-doesnt-work.html I'm very happy that a recent post titled «Tag history and gartners hype cycles» stirred up a discussion in the folksonomy-blog-space that got some people musing about the state of tagging: Paolo Valdemarin: 4 years later I'm still wondering when will we get some truly advanced tagging tools. Where are all these tools to ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/09/the-delicious-lesson-revisited.html Front side of the gift Address side of the gift. It is remarkable that this mail got delivered, as it wan't wrapped in an envelope or so! When Julian Cash told me in an email that he was very gateful for the paper Frank, Grigory and I wrote, he asked me for my snail ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/07/fan-mail.html In beginning of May at webtuesday, I gave a presentation about the current problems with tags and what could be done to improve that situation. Corsin was kind enough to record the presentation (thanks a lot for that!). I'm not completely happy with the presentation - especially the part about tag ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/06/improving-navigation-in-tag-spaces.html For last Webtuesday I gathered a few historic data of the «tag movement» (that got very quiet in the last two years). History of tags Feb 2002 Delicious ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/05/tag-history-and-gartners-hype-cycles.html I started a new job at local.ch in February - yeah, it's been a while already. Local.ch is a local search engine for Switzerland, that means I can now work on information retrieval related stuff full time - which was what I did in my free time already. Being paid for ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/04/new-job-presentation-at-webtuesday.html As various blogs already posted, RawSugar has closed its research and development efforts. That is, the service will still be up for a while but there won't me new features or bugfixes (see Rawsugars announcement). I'm sad to hear this as I was a happy user of RawSugar. It was the ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2007/01/rawsugar-post-mortem-analysis.html Imagine you have a closet where you store all your documents. Each time you want to archive an important document you tell your closet: "put that under important", a magic hand, coming out of the closet, takes your document and puts it into its immense pile of documents. The other ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2006/10/tagsessibility.html Grigory Begelman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science Dpt), Frank Smadja (RawSugar) and I did a paper for www2006 called "automated tag clustering". It deals with why clustering the tag space makes sense and how this could be done. After the presentation at the tagging workshop at www2006 we ... http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2006/07/automated_tag_clustering.html