From ludais at gmail.com  Sat Nov  3 08:05:47 2007
From: ludais at gmail.com (Arildo Ricardo)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 05:05:47 -0300
Subject: [Search-l] =?iso-8859-1?q?Chegan=E7a?=
Message-ID: <98e931610711030105g779067b1s71ba49203ae0ed0a@mail.gmail.com>

Estou chegando devagar no wikia.com. Vou precisar de ajuda.
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From sethf at sethf.com  Mon Nov 12 21:23:21 2007
From: sethf at sethf.com (Seth Finkelstein)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:23:21 -0500
Subject: [Search-l] Wikia bought Grub for $50K, from LookSmart SEC documents
Message-ID: <20071112212321.GA26838@sethf.com>

[I assume this won't get me in trouble for buzz-harshing, and further
I've got a bona-fide little news scoop here]

LookSmart's recent SEC filing reveals that Wikia paid $50,000 for Grub:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312507242517/d10q.htm#toc

    Grub

    The URL for Grub and certain source code were sold for $50,000 on
    July 12, 2007 A gain on sale of assets of $50,000 was recorded in
    the three months ended September 30, 2007, which is included in
    other operating income (loss), net. 

Link for credit if you want:
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001279.html

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From jwales at wikia.com  Mon Nov 12 22:06:01 2007
From: jwales at wikia.com (Jimmy Wales)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:06:01 +0200
Subject: [Search-l] Wikia bought Grub for $50K,
	from LookSmart SEC documents
In-Reply-To: <20071112212321.GA26838@sethf.com>
References: <20071112212321.GA26838@sethf.com>
Message-ID: <4738CE49.7040804@wikia.com>

Only Seth would imagine this sort of trivia would be "buzz harshing", a 
term that only he has used.

Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> [I assume this won't get me in trouble for buzz-harshing, and further
> I've got a bona-fide little news scoop here]
> 
> LookSmart's recent SEC filing reveals that Wikia paid $50,000 for Grub:
> 
> http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312507242517/d10q.htm#toc
> 
>     Grub
> 
>     The URL for Grub and certain source code were sold for $50,000 on
>     July 12, 2007 A gain on sale of assets of $50,000 was recorded in
>     the three months ended September 30, 2007, which is included in
>     other operating income (loss), net. 
> 
> Link for credit if you want:
> http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001279.html
> 


From fred.benenson at gmail.com  Mon Nov 12 22:17:07 2007
From: fred.benenson at gmail.com (Fred Benenson)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:17:07 -0500
Subject: [Search-l] Wikia bought Grub for $50K,
	from LookSmart SEC documents
In-Reply-To: <4738CE49.7040804@wikia.com>
References: <20071112212321.GA26838@sethf.com> <4738CE49.7040804@wikia.com>
Message-ID: <8e447b720711121417g6a8e07eer1261f3a7aa42235a@mail.gmail.com>

Yah, it's an interesting update. Thanks Seth!


F

On Nov 12, 2007 5:06 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Only Seth would imagine this sort of trivia would be "buzz harshing", a
> term that only he has used.
>
> Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> > [I assume this won't get me in trouble for buzz-harshing, and further
> > I've got a bona-fide little news scoop here]
> >
> > LookSmart's recent SEC filing reveals that Wikia paid $50,000 for Grub:
> >
> >
> http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312507242517/d10q.htm#toc
> >
> >     Grub
> >
> >     The URL for Grub and certain source code were sold for $50,000 on
> >     July 12, 2007 A gain on sale of assets of $50,000 was recorded in
> >     the three months ended September 30, 2007, which is included in
> >     other operating income (loss), net.
> >
> > Link for credit if you want:
> > http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001279.html
> >
>
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From sethf at sethf.com  Mon Nov 12 22:56:05 2007
From: sethf at sethf.com (Seth Finkelstein)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:56:05 -0500
Subject: [Search-l] Wikia bought Grub for $50K,
	from LookSmart SEC	documents
In-Reply-To: <4738CE49.7040804@wikia.com>
References: <20071112212321.GA26838@sethf.com> <4738CE49.7040804@wikia.com>
Message-ID: <20071112225605.GA27159@sethf.com>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:06:01AM +0200, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Only Seth would imagine this sort of trivia would be "buzz harshing", a 
> term that only he has used.

	Note what I wrote:

>> Seth Finkelstein wrote:
>> [I assume this won't get me in trouble for buzz-harshing, and further
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Now, buzz-harshing is indeed my phrasing (playing off the
slang expression harshing-the-buzz), though I'd say the idea convey by
it is not disputed. Given the potential for an ad-hominem based
misunderstanding, sometimes it's advisable to be prudent via stating
non-hostile intentions.

-- 
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Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php

From dhart at atlantisblue.com.au  Tue Nov 13 04:00:18 2007
From: dhart at atlantisblue.com.au (David Hart)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:00:18 +1100
Subject: [Search-l] news bit: Yahoo! to launch 4,
	000 node Hadoop M45 supercomputer for universities
Message-ID: <60c9cc1c0711122000t44a48eb7q9b62fa6e7bf35902@mail.gmail.com>

Yahoo! Launches Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Distributed
Computing<http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/application/14364/yahoo-launches-program-advance-open-source-software-distributed-computing>


Published: Monday, November 12 2007 @ 8:52 PM CST | Contributed by: Tommy

SUNNYVALE, Calif. ? (NASDAQ:YHOO) Yahoo! Inc. has said that it will launch
an open source program aimed at advancing the research and development of
systems software for distributed computing. Yahoo!'s program is intended to
leverage its leadership in Hadoop, an open source distributed computing
sub-project of the Apache Software Foundation, to enable researchers to
modify and evaluate the systems software running on a 4,000 processor
supercomputer provided by Yahoo!. Unlike other companies and traditional
supercomputing centers, which focus on providing users with computers for
running applications and for coursework, Yahoo!'s program focuses on pushing
the boundaries of large-scale systems software research.

Currently, academic researchers lack the hardware and software
infrastructure to support Internet-scale systems software research. To date,
Yahoo! has been the primary contributor to Hadoop, an open source
distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its
users to process massive amounts of data. Hadoop has been adopted by many
groups and is the software of choice for supporting university coursework in
Internet-scale computing. Researchers have been eager to collaborate with
Yahoo! and tap the company's technical leadership in Hadoop-related systems
software research and development.

As a key part of the program, Yahoo! intends to make Hadoop available in a
supercomputing-class data center to the academic community for systems
software research. Called the M45, Yahoo!'s supercomputing cluster, named
after one of the best known open star clusters, has approximately 4,000
processors, three terabytes of memory, 1.5 petabytes of disks, and a peak
performance of more than 27 trillion calculations per second (27 teraflops),
placing it among the top 50 fastest supercomputers in the world.

M45 is expected to run the latest version of Hadoop and other
state-of-the-art, Yahoo!-supported, open-source distributed computing
software such as the Pig parallel programming language developed by Yahoo!
Research, the central advanced research organization of Yahoo! Inc.

Carnegie Mellon University will be the first institution to take advantage
of Yahoo!'s M45. Leading systems software researchers Garth Gibson and Greg
Ganger, both professors at Carnegie Mellon, will instrument the system and
evaluate its performance. Simultaneously, Carnegie Mellon computer science
professors Jamie Callan and Christos Faloutsos, academic leaders in text and
web mining, will solve challenging information retrieval and large-scale
graph problems on the cluster. Carnegie Mellon faculty members Alexei Efros,
Noah Smith, and Stephan Vogel will also use the cluster to tackle
large-scale computer graphics, natural language processing, and machine
translation problems, respectively. In the future, Yahoo! plans to make M45
available to researchers from other universities for open, collaborative
research.

"Hadoop has become an important computing environment for data-intensive
applications and Yahoo! is playing a leading role in its development. We are
excited about collaborating with Yahoo! on systems software research,
helping to advance the state-of-the-art, and creating new research
possibilities in this critical area," said Randall E. Bryant, dean of the
School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. "We look forward to working
with Yahoo! and jointly contributing back to the open source community."

"Yahoo! is dedicated to working with leading universities to solve some of
the most critical computing challenges facing our industry," said Ron
Brachman, vice president and head of Yahoo! academic relations. "Launching
this program and M45 is a significant milestone in creating a global,
collaborative research community working to advance the new sciences of the
Internet. This milestone is a key element of Yahoo!'s growing Academic
Relations effort."
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From jeremie at jabber.org  Sat Nov 17 01:40:08 2007
From: jeremie at jabber.org (jer)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:40:08 -0600
Subject: [Search-l] much ado!
Message-ID: <74A886E0-E8DE-4DBB-903C-7B1643706318@jabber.org>

There was a lot of chatter today about a talk Jimmy gave recently  
hinting at a few things being worked on towards next month, which  
many of you probably already saw but it's worth a mention:

	http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/16/get-ready-for-wikia-search- 
first-screen-shots-shown-in-south-africa/

And no, it's not "about nothing" but it is just a part of the overall  
effort, there isn't any one magical thing, just a lot of pieces  
moving in the same direction :)

Jer


From newsmarkie at googlemail.com  Sun Nov 18 16:49:27 2007
From: newsmarkie at googlemail.com (Wikinews Markie)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:49:27 +0000
Subject: [Search-l] "Socialpedia"
Message-ID: <a6424d870711180849l1a875953yb88d0d7a9eb3972d@mail.gmail.com>

New post on the Socialpedia screenshots and claims, a bit late and behind
the main media but it's only me posting and this is my first free time.
Anyway link below.

http://searchwikia.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/socialpedia-screenshots-revealed/

If you want to post there please contact me and please do not email me back
saying SPAM, if you dont like it then send it to trash, this is just a note
for people wanting to read it.

Thanks

Mark
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From jmcc at hackwatch.com  Thu Nov 29 15:46:09 2007
From: jmcc at hackwatch.com (John McCormac)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:46:09 +0000
Subject: [Search-l] much ado!
In-Reply-To: <74A886E0-E8DE-4DBB-903C-7B1643706318@jabber.org>
References: <74A886E0-E8DE-4DBB-903C-7B1643706318@jabber.org>
Message-ID: <474EDEC1.90304@hackwatch.com>

jer wrote:
> There was a lot of chatter today about a talk Jimmy gave recently  
> hinting at a few things being worked on towards next month, which  
> many of you probably already saw but it's worth a mention:
> 
> 	http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/16/get-ready-for-wikia-search- 
> first-screen-shots-shown-in-south-africa/

Google seems to have some ideas on socialised search too:

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9753

Regards...jmcc
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From aerik at thesylvans.com  Thu Nov 29 20:12:46 2007
From: aerik at thesylvans.com (Aerik Sylvan)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:12:46 -0800
Subject: [Search-l] much ado!
In-Reply-To: <474EDEC1.90304@hackwatch.com>
References: <74A886E0-E8DE-4DBB-903C-7B1643706318@jabber.org>
	<474EDEC1.90304@hackwatch.com>
Message-ID: <355a36af0711291212t5404367s1c03a3ede217ee40@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 29, 2007 7:46 AM, John McCormac <jmcc at hackwatch.com> wrote:

>
> Google seems to have some ideas on socialised search too:
>
> http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9753
>

Excerpted from that article:
Google is experimenting with a new style of search result that aims to
improve accuracy of its search engine by letting the user vote on whether
they like or dislike the list of search results for a given keyword.

Hey - I suggested exactly such a thing awhile back (to be fair, I'm sure a
lot of people thought of it before, too):
http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/search-l/2007-January/000068.html

Best Regards,
Aerik Sylvan

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