Just a couple of days left until MIX07 starts. I cleverly evaded responsibility for conference preparations early this year, but have recently been roped in to help with an interesting new project. This year we will be letting you follow along from home, with news updates, interviews, demos, and sessions posted throughout the [...]
Last week I bumped into Ted Leung at a party near Moscone in San Francisco. Since he wasn’t attending the conference, and he normally works from home here in the Northwest, I assumed he was doing something interesting. He wouldn’t give me many details, and I figured he would blog about it soon. Turns out [...]
Alec Baldwin, talking to an answering machine: “You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone”.
There certainly is humiliation and a phone involved, but I think that statement was just the start. Alec Baldwin, didn’t you promise to leave the country? There is no reason for an answering machine to put up with [...]
Session: Understanding User Behavior at Scale, Andy Edmonds
Andy was search quality analyst at MSFT, now at FreeIQ in Atlanta. Discussing some MSR research on predictive models for user’s search relevance judgment. Going into detail about how MSFT improved search relevance (and what we did right and wrong) since 2004 up till now. [...]
(Raw notes, updated throughout the day, reverse-chronological)
Session: Dojo Offline Toolkit
Brad Neuberg, discussing Dojo Offline Toolkit. Interesting premise. They have built a 300k runtime to handle offline support, “super cookies” and “browser-agnostic cache”. I’m having trouble understanding the relationship between this and Dojo. It adds a namespace dojo.off, and changes dojo.storage. [...]