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There’s a lot of ongoing research on recommender systems, fostered by the Netflix Prize.
Recommender systems are basically a software implement of some sort that allows suggestions on a given domain to be offered to users. Usually they are specialised: Amazon’s recommender system recommends books, last.fm’s recommends songs, and the like.
The key to recommendation relies into [...]

There are a lot of ongoing discussions about the power of Wolfram Alpha. I think that most of these conversations are flawed because of the argument that Wolfram Alpha does not find you enough information.
I believe that the mistake here lies in the common way the press have introduced the service. Wolfram himself has not [...]

The first time I got in touch with a Google recruiter was more or less a week after I’d decided to enrol for a PhD. Apparently this – very kind, I must say – recruiter was browsing uni pages and found my profile. At the time, apart from telling her that I was due to [...]

I read some interesting thought on the Mashable blog about the relationship between RSS and microblogging. If you think about the two technologies, there are for sure some evident similarities, i.e. they both deliver a stream of short items with high semantical concentration(*).
In RSS you usually get also a bigger amount of text, but to [...]

I’ve took part to that nice event called the “Twitter Developer Nest”, that is basically a meeting for people interested in developing applications over twitter.
There have been nice talks and presentation of old and new Twitter apps, including and amazingly funny presentation by @aszolty on his BakerTweet systems (which quite interestingly merges three things I’ve [...]