[box]• This essay was featured as a guest post on ReadWrite on August 5th, 2015.[/box] The search giant humanized the Web. Now it needs to do it again. Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but when it launched its search engine, it wound up doing more than […]
A tried and true method for discovering someone’s email address is to take their first name and last name, such as “Luke Skywalker”, their domain, such as “disney.com”, and mix them in commonly used ways, such as “lskywalker@disney.com”. But doing this over and over again across all possible combinations is […]
[box]• Think Advisor featured these results in their article Are You a Contrarian or Part of the Herd? on May 5th, 2015.[/box] It’s no secret that many investors think alike. When they do, we say they have a “herd mentality”; when they don’t, we call them “contrarians”. And it’s usually speculation as […]
The Curalytics Clique is an interdisciplinary, invitation-only community & “think-tank” that discusses subjective systems across the dimensions of machine learning, recommendation systems, marketing, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, semiotics, and design. Members include CTOs, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers, product managers, and engineers working at large tech companies, venture backed firms, start ups, universities, and research […]
Do you run long MySQL queries? Do you want to know what your Amazon RDS database is really doing? With this one easy command, monitor processes on MySQL Amazon RDS (or any MySQL database) just like the “top” command for linux: mysqladmin –host=your.unique.address.rds.amazonaws.com –user=root –password=yourPassword -i 1 processlist –verbose –host – The host […]
[box]• This analysis was featured as a guest post on VentureBeat on July 8th, 2014. • Click here to listen to Dan Gummel’s narration of this article, courtesy of VentureBeat.[/box] The Songza team will do great things for Google—but it won’t be because of curation. Google recently acquired Songza for what […]
Square, the mobile payments company, has a new online marketplace for small businesses. This Holiday Season, they sponsored a competition for the most creative and diverse curated “wish list” of products. The prize: $1,000 worth of items from your list. Fortunately, mine was a top ten winner. I’m passionate about […]
[box]• The Independent published the 1st of these data visualizations in the article Invasion of the algorithms: The modern-day equations which can rule our lives on March 9, 2015[/box] Big data and art don’t usually go together. Until now that is. Here at Curalytics, we’ve teamed up with Curiator, an […]
Caption: The filter scalability diagram plots the four content filters across the dimensions of objectivity and subjectivity and simplicity and complexity. The curating filter, both complex and subjective, is at the highest risk of overload. [box]Curation fundamentally needs a technology that connects people with people, not people with machines.[/box] The […]
I day dream about a free, full-fledged Google CRM product native to Gmail. I’m closer now with the ability to send customized mass emails from Gmail. It’s not the “perfect mass email solution”, but it: Is Free Uses Gmail/Google Docs only Is Google Contacts friendly This tutorial is based off […]
