Year: 2005

I was going to attend Zawodny’s Yahoo talk, but as it’s mainly an API overview I figured I’d get more out of this etech session.

The

Continuing a theme, Clay Shirky’s eTech presentation focused on categorization, tagging and labeling. Deep or wide or ? I know I face these issues in dealing

An interesting eTech session was a panel discussion on the topic of user defined categorization, known as folksonomy. Contrary to common wisdom, which

Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia, gave an interesting talk at eTech this morning.

Freely licensed encyclopedia,

Justin F. Chapweske, CEO of Onion Networks gave a presentation at eTech to motivate the need for a better way to transfer very large files across the internet.

Spam sucks. Of course, we know this. The point is that spam could be stopped, but the result would no longer be email as we know it today.

Corey Doctorow gave

Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s