Google finally added Street View data for Boston. The first thing I aways do is check Waltham Street, where I used to live. Here’s a shot of my old apartment building:
They let you create a link to a view like this, but it seems to only include the camera position when you use […]
This came in over an e-mail list I’m on dedicated to MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia). It’s a breakdown of where the traffic comes from for all Wikipedia-related sites:
http://leuksman.com/log/2007/06/07/wikimedia-page-views/
The answer is Google, mostly. No surprises here. In fact, I thought the Google numbers were low until I remembered there that this […]
I’m on the team that runs the MATLAB Programming Contest. The contest has evolved into a week-long series of mini-contests, each with its own deadline. We post all deadlines relative to our own clocks in Natick, MA, but we have contestants playing in real-time from all over the world. I just stumbled […]
At work, I’m the maintainer of some company internal standards. Some of them link to a section of of our public online documentation. The system that produces this doc doesn’t produce cool URLs. They are long, ugly, and change every time we do a major software release.
Q: How can I get out […]
We’ve been having a good discussion at work on how to encourage and reward friendly behavior on our very active user community site. One idea is to implement some kind of user rating system, like awarding points for contributions or even a Slashdot-style karma system.
I’m not crazy about these ideas. My thinking has […]