Greg Linden
About: Currently Microsoft Live Labs, ex-Findory, ex-Amazon. Writes the weblog Geeking with Greg.
Blog Posts
Google Toolbar data and the actual surfer model
--There were a few interesting developments in the past couple weeks from Google that appear to relate to their ability to track much of the movement...
Black, white, and gray spam
--Scott Yih, Robert McCann, and Alek Kolcz had a paper at CEAS 2007 on "Improving Spam Filtering by Detecting Gray Mail" (PDF).The paper focuses on t...
Video recommendations on YouTube
--A WWW 2008 paper out of Google, "Video Suggestion and Discovery for YouTube: Taking Random Walks Through the View Graph" (PDF) presents "a novel me...
Google, the press, and tearing down your heroes
--The press seems to have a pattern reporting on successful technology companies. First, these companies can do no wrong, the heroes of our time, br...
Digg recommendation engine
--Kevin Rose writes that Digg is launching a recommendation engine that "uses your past digging activity to identify what we call Diggers Like You .....
Hadoop and scheduling
--A VLDB 2008 paper out of Yahoo Research, "Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files" (PDF) looks at how "to maximize the overall rate of processi...
Amazon page recommendations
--Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar points out Amazon's new page recommendation widget in his post, "Amazon's Page Recommender: Foreshadowing A New Web...
Microsoft, big computation, and big data
--In his post, "Inside Microsoft's Internet Infrastructure & Its Plans for the Future", Om Malik highlights some interesting "facts about Microso...
Website personas
--Netflix has a feature called Profiles that allows multiple people to use the same Netflix account while keeping their queue and recommendations sep...
Advertising auctions and modeling externalities
--Googlers Gagan Aggarwal, Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, and Martin Pal have an upcoming paper, "Sponsored Search Auctions with Markovian Users", wi...
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I never miss a "Geeking with Greg" post.
