Tonight I met someone from a (largish) local company and learned they’re migrating their search functionality to SOLR.  This is the second largish company in the area I know that’s migrating to SOLR.  I’m not naming names only because I’m not sure they’d want me to do so.  Suffice it to say these are names [...]

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Robert Scoble just switched his home pages from TechMeme to FriendFeed.
“So what?” is likely what you’re thinking. Yeah, big deal, right? Well, TechMeme had a clustering algorithm which would group together news articles of related content, and give you a good idea of the ‘hot topics’ of the day. It did this [...]

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I’ve had a book project in the back of my mind for a bit.  Though there’s never enough hours in the day to get everything done I need to, I have one book I’m wrapping up in the next few days, and am seriously considering committing myself to this next one.  No publisher lined up [...]

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Bill Gates is predicting that we’ll interact with computers via speech and touchscreens more in the future.
In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard, Gates told about 1,200 students and faculty members Thursday at Carnegie Mellon University.
I just can’t see this happening without a [...]

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Former colleague Donovan Jimenez had his PHP/SOLR client plugged as the “most robust” PHP client for SOLR at IBM’s developerworks site.  Not much else to plug here, but if you’re interested in doing SOLR with PHP, his client does the job admirably.  I’m using it in my matchorclash.com site right now too.  Grab Donovan’s client [...]

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I was having an interesting conversation with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project this evening, and he got to talking about the ’social networking’ focus in the next DNN release.  I had a small brainwave and suggested something to him, but the implications might be larger than I originally considered.
He mentioned that they’d be looking [...]

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I just stumbled on Zotero, a fantastic firefox plugin for archiving, annotating and searching stuff you find on the web.  There’s very little I can say about it that they don’t say better on their site.  I’ve only been using it today, but it’s simply amazing.  I’ve been looking for something like this for a [...]

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So, I hit a couple more sessions last night.  The ‘high performance web pages’ talk from Steve @ Yahoo wasn’t open - SRO apparently.  Instead, I caught the end of “Profiling PHP apps” (Reilly).  I missed the beginning, but was hoping to get a bit of something out of it.  I did - a reference [...]

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I ended up running over just a bit in my presentation, and didn’t quite get through all my slides (missed the last 3).  For anyone that wanted to see how it ends, download the files from  http://www.webdevradio.com/solr_oscon.tgz.  The only thing I didn’t demonstrate in detail was the PHP/SOLR search code, which is running at http://www.pfblogs.com/v2/ [...]

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Going through SOLR putting together my presentation, I’ve restarted thinking of my hosted SOLR service I was considering some time ago.  I was thinking last night that a hosted blog search - wordpress, to start with - would be a great service, and pretty easy to set up.  Wordpress “search”  functionality is something that seems [...]

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