Ho John Lee’s Weblog

As 2005 comes to a close, a look back at some of the top posts this year based on page views, which seems to have been a mix of technology, business, travel, and random.

• A Reading List on PageRank and Search Algorithms
• Potter Puppet Pals
• Camping out at Singapore Changi Airport
• Personalization, Intent, and Modifying PageRank Calculations
• Mona Lisa at the Salle des Etats
• Tagging and Searching - How Transparent do you want to be?
• Follow the Money - Microsoft Windows Live, Google, and Web 2.0
• The Cambrian Age 2.0
• How (and where) to download your del.icio.us bookmarks
• Yahoo goes after more tagging assets, buys del.icio.us
• Five principles of user generated content - Trust, Attention, Relevance, Authority, and Intent
• Ungoogleable to #1 in six months
• United Red Carpet Club - Tokyo Narita Airport
• Blackdog Linux Personal Server
• Don’t cross those wires - Los Angeles power outage
• Building better personalized search, filtering spam blogs
• Korean Food at Myung Dong Tofu Cabin
• The Home Pages of this New Era
• Small steps versus theorizing, Reboot 7

Spent a few hours this afternoon at Chris Heuer’s BrainJam event. Wasn’t able to make it to the morning sessions, but arrived in time for the end of lunch and the “youth user panel”, consisting of four college students. They all love Facebook. Not sure how representative they are of the general student demographic, since two of them are trying to put together a web startup. They all use free online music and movie access, mostly through sharing within the dorm networks.