Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Faults of PageRank / Something is Wrong with Google’s Mathematical Model (PDF)
  Hiller Tal-Ezer on ranking anomalies in original PageRank. Pages with inbound links and no outbound links get overweighted, which is the basis for some SEO techniques in the past.
  (tags: google pagerank search algorithms seo)
• The Mathematical Model of Google (PDF)
  Hillel Tal-Ezer’s overview of Google’s approach to search. See also Langville and Meyer’s “Deeper Inside PageRank”
  (tags: google search algorithms pagerank)
• Public Domain Movie Torrents with PDA versions
  Mostly old movies. Includes Plan 9 from Outer Space, perhaps the worst science fiction / horror movie ever made.
  (tags: movies streaming media bittorrent free)
• Wink
  Tag and bookmark your google search results. Can also import bookmarks from del.icio.us, and appears to have some wiki features as well.
  (tags: wink tagging bookmarking wiki search startups)
• Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and Its Authors
  Todd Holloway, Miran Bozicevic, Katy Börner - Iintroduces a suite of measures and approaches to analyze and map the semantic structure of Wikipedia. Co-occurrences of categories within individual articles have a power-law distribution, and when mapped re
  (tags: wikipedia semantic data analysis algorithms visualization)
• Yankidank - View topic :: Pligg
  Forum thread discussing Pligg, an English translation of Meneame, a Spanish language Digg clone.
  (tags: digg clone meneame pligg socialsoftware)
• Pligg / published news
  Digg-like site based on Meneame, an open source Spanish language Digg clone.
  (tags: meneame pligg digg clone socialsoftware)
• Technocast » Blog Archive » Make Your Own Digg.com Like Site… The Easy Way!
  Another approach to implementing a Digg-like site using Wordpress and Owen Winkler’s Votio plugin.
  (tags: wordpress digg hacking socialsoftware)
• Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyright Protection
  uses Google API to search for duplicate copies of web pages specified by URL
  (tags: google search api plagiarism)
• Yahoo! Travel Web Services
  Web services API for access to published schedules, reservations, and other travel application services
  (tags: yahoo travel webservices api web2.0)
• 409ACommentLetter12_05.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  Open letter from National Venture Capital Association to IRS regarding the new 409A rules for option valuation, which are unworkable with respect to venture funded companies. Some fixes are proposed in the memo.
  (tags: vc venture capital irs finance startups nvca 409a accounting)
• LLRX — Best Legal Practices for Open Source Software
  Lawyer Dennis Kennedy’s ten tips for managing the use of open source software in businesses.
  (tags: opensource licensing business management legal)
• Now What? » How David Can Beat Goliath- Summary of Strategies
  Wrapup of a series of posts on taking advantage of smallness
  (tags: business strategy management startups)
• Linear Algebra Methods for Data Mining (Spring 2005)
  Helsinki University course outline and lecture slides. Includes discussion of application in clustering and web search.
  (tags: search algorithms math lecture notes)
• How to Make Wealth
  Paul Graham essay on startups and creating wealth vs money.
  (tags: startups business)
• brianstorms weblog
  A look at historical listing volume at eBay, which drops sharply the week before Christmas and spikes the week after.
  (tags: ebay ecommerce marketing volume graph business)
• The Vinyl Tourist
  Assorted notes on the care and feeding of vinyl record collection and related equipment.
  (tags: music vinyl record equipment care howto)

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