is an online presentation by Toby DiPasquale that goes through some of the more idiomatic features of Ruby, those that newcomers to Ruby might be confused by or overlook.
The map's original data was created from a reference photo of a real human brain which was used to build the 3d terrain. This digital elevation model was then used to create contour line data, relief
Janet Harris, a friend and Pollster reader, sends an interesting bit of analysis she did on last night's MSNBC Democratic debate. Using the free site TagCrowd, she created a set of "tag clouds&qu
Ever feel like the blogosphere is 500 million channels with nothing on? Tailrank finds the internet's hottest channels by indexing over 24M weblogs and feeds per hour. That's 52TB of raw blog content
In this issue, we present the emerging opportunities to use geovisualizations to reveal the "pulse of a city" with the visualization of spatio-temporal data generated by the people's experie
Takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.
Current systems for ranking blogs are largely about inlinks. Technorati and BlogPulse both use this basic measure of citation to create their lists; TechMeme - whose new list created plenty of discus
In order to build Tailrank, we needed to create a spam-resistant and high performance spider (also know as a crawler) to index the blogosphere. This involved spam prevention, language categorization,
In the spring of 2005, IBM bloggers used a wiki to create a set of blogging guidelines that would protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself as the company formally entered the blogosphere. The guidelin
Showcase - The Developers' Playground. We are constantly innovating and producing new and cool tools and technologies. The BlogPulse Showcase is a sandbox for our researchers, developers and collabora