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Well done NASA! This sounds like the same futuristic material coating the super-fast spaceship that Zaphod and Ford Prefect were admiring outside Milliways in Hitch Hiker's Guide t…

I would imagine Microsoft would find Mono a very useful Novell asset to get control of.

Thanks!

There are a lot of moving parts, but these are separate sub-systems with well defined boundaries of interaction. Each sub-system is implemented using technologies selected for spec…

I'm cooking up a Twitter Recommendation Engine for users, hashtags, and links etc. For example: http://tagwalk.com/tag/MySQL

I am using the LNNMMMMP stack at the moment... Linux, nginx, node.js, memcached, MySQL, Mono, MongoDB and PHP. Am I normal?

You have got to admire the evil villany we're up against. Buying the 'M' in LAMP and then exploiting that position. Business first, not the heart and minds of developers. Luckily t…

I love that you conducted A/B testing with different user profiles. That makes you more attractive to geeks :-)

Nice one, thanks, and good luck with Firetweets! There is tons of job tweets, but most have "job" in the username and/or app source. Also any app source that contains "bot" or "fee…

It's many pronged approach. User timelines are loaded for "reputable" users, (see blog for computing reputation) and search input is used with primative bayesian filtering. In my e…

Cool, thanks for the link. Sorry if the colour scheme made your eyes bleed - I'm still experimenting with that. :-)

Thank you. It already works for any hashtags or usernames that it encounters, here's #sundaybaconclub http://tagwalk.com/tag/sundaybaconclub

Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing, e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs

Does this means our Big Bang generation will be mocked like the Earth-is-flat believers?

I agree. Really useful. Picking just the timezones you are interested in would make it perfect for the job. Great work!

Here's a prototype of my iPad killer! http://twitpic.com/1fb2ox