Archive for May, 2010
Google Reader tells Google what you Like and what to Index
While most of the Facebook‘s generation kids who populate the Internet nowadays have no idea about what RSS feeds are (but likely “follow” CNN on Twitter), there is still some percentage of tech-savvy people (me included) who take a look to their favorites feeds every morning before starting their day. Not many RSS feeds reader [...]
NASDAQ or S&P500 Components List: How to Download it from Yahoo! Finance
In many are trying to apply Machine Learning Algorithms to the stock market to learn and predict the fluctuation of stocks. Yahoo! Finance is of great help because allows you to download in simple CSV files price and volume of all the stocks going back a few years. The API is easy to use and [...]
Google Maps Traffic data is crowd-sourced through cell-phones’ Google Apps
Google Maps have been able to display traffic conditions, even on small road, for quite a while. How does Google know that? The technology behind it is very interesting. They use GPS/time data sent back from people using Google Maps Apps on their phones (iPhones, Blackberry, Android, …). At regular intervals the phone sends to [...]
Facebook will use the Like Button to Personalize Search and Improve ADs
There has been a lot of chatting around the new Facebook’s Like Button. Some people believe it will be great for SEO, other that will increase distribution on Facebook, etc… But Facebook is smarter than that: they want to create a great search engine, possibly a personalized one, and improve their ADs platform. Traditional search [...]
Google Collected Wifi Data for Geo-location Purposes
In the past days there have been a lot of discussions about the public admission of collecting Wifi data from Google. This has been labeled as “mistake” but do not you wonder why Google was collecting those Wifi data in the first place? They were collecting MAC addresses and network SSIDs for geo-location purposes. Since [...]
