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Facebook Unveils One of History's Most Powerful Recommendation Engines

Facebook just announced the availability of a new feature for users creating accounts on the social network: Suggested Interests. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_unveils_one_of_the_historys_most_powerful.php

FinderMind — People Search Help

The fastest way to get started is to take a look and use these 25 Free People Search Engines . Many of them get their data from many different online sources. http://www.findermind.com/

Chomp: An Apps Search Engine Or “Yelp For The App Store”

Chomp could be described as a search engine for iPhone apps (and eventually other apps stores). It’s a two-month old iPhone app and more recently a website , which resembles Twitter, whose objective is to enable people to more easily discover and review iPhone apps. http://searchengineland.com/chomp-a-search-engine-or-yelp-for-the-app-store-37849
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What can search predict? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

You’ve all heard about how you can predict all sorts of things, from movie grosses to flu trends, using search results. I earlier blogged about the research of Yahoo’s Sharad Goel, Jake Hofman, Sebastien Lahaie, David Pennock, and Duncan Watts in this area.
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Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more: if you have nothing to hide...

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities. That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy.
When a key piece of data changes in the enterprise, one must first treat this new data like a query (i.e., what does this new data mean in relation to what the enterprise already knows). http://jeffjonas.typepad.com/jeff_jonas/2007/01/federated_disco.html

Jeff Jonas: Federated Discovery vs. Persistent Context – Enterprise Intelligence Requires the Later

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http://alltop.com/ Square, the mobile payment startup founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is one of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies right now. It’s no surprise then, that German clone factory Rocket Internet, which is run by brothers Mac, Oliver and Alexander Samwer, is now rumored to be developing its own blatant Square clone.
Do you sometimes get the feeling that Internet portals, search pages, social networks, e-commerce, and other Web sites are not necessarily designed in order to maximize user convenience and benefits?

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing? — HBS Working Knowledge

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How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends' Tweets In Google Reader

OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and in this case it's just a bundle of RSS feeds than can be moved around in bulk. It's a beautiful idea that has a lot more potential than has been realized, but you'll see how it comes in handy here.