January 2011
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How Facebook Killed (Most) Spam Using Smart... →
Specifically, the system tracks whether recipients hide certain messages or mark them as spam, or whether they click “Like” on the message or comment on it, or whether they actually click through to see the application itself. “Using a bunch of signals like that, we’re able to infer the likelihood that something is a high-quality message,” Taylor said. Or, alternatively, if it is low quality.
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Animated list item reordering in jQuery
http://jsfiddle.net/uNv8C/embedded/result/
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Ebert Says 3D Will Never Work Because Our Brains... →
The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the “convergence/focus” issue. A couple of the other issues — darkness and “smallness” — are at least theoretically solvable. But the deeper problem is that the audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen — say it is 80 feet away. This is constant no matter what.
But their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120...
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Google search and search engine spam →
Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English. However, we have seen a slight uptick of spam in recent months, and while we’ve already made progress, we have new efforts underway to continue to improve our search quality.
Just as a reminder, webspam is junk you see in search results...
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52 Weeks of UX: Is Facebook Temporary? →
Last week, the most prestigious investment bank in the world, Goldman Sachs, decided to invest almost 2 billion dollars in the social network Facebook (a mix of its own and its clients capital), which on paper made the six year old startup worth $50,000,000,000.
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