July, 22, 2005 archives

wired reviews hooking up, and the biggest complaint is that for a show about online dating, it really doesn’t have much to say about the online part of that. i agree that the timescale of things is terribly unclear. from the show, you get the impression that some of these women are going on dates every night, seriously considering guys as “maybe the one” after two or three dates/days, and then breaking up the next day. (then again, maybe they are. what do i know?)

yahoo has extended the blo.gs stream interface so consumers can add filters. cool!

this will be good for cutting the bandwidth in the whole feedmesh process — a consumer could just tell blo.gs not to pass it entries for which it was the source. it’s not everything needed for duplicate suppression, but it is a good way to cut out big chunks of them.