We all kneel to Google search paradigm. The paradigm is based on the study of the relational structure between pages that is created by the complex network of links.

The idea came to Larry when he mapped (in his mind) hyperlinks to citations and web-pages to peer-reviewed papers. Basically, he adapted the ranking concept used within the scientific community (i.e. the number of citations a scientist has for his papers) to rank the internet pages (i.e. the number of links that directs to a given internet page). Thus was born the PageRank concept. At the time (1995) there was still no easy way to tell how many links an internet page had pointing at it. The merit of Larry (and Sergei) was to actually craft a working crawler that would collect and retrieve this information. Well...

The Long Tail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ok, this is the most interesting concept discovered this week. Re-coined by Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson, the long tail tells a long story about what's happening in business models, markets, and uncovers new market niches.

Still, the long-tail distribution could be applied to the language vocabulary, showing an ordenated set of decreasingly popular words. There would be one such ordenated set per language/dialect.

As a good friend of mine introduced me recently to TiddlyWiki, stormy winds blown my spirits away: an alternate competitor to the webtop! An On-A-StickTop! Indeed, with the flourishing of cheap high storage capacity usb flash drives, one may virtually carry around its own personal documents, and the software that goes along!

A revolutionary way of making it work seamlessly with web-based services is to create a web-browser-based 100% client-sided app! One such as tiddly-wiki, a 100% javascript+

Have you ever heard of the Google Query engine? Of course you have; or at least you have already experienced it in some other way. However I was astonished by the following experience at Google spreadsheets:

While perusing the usual functions available in any decent spreadsheet, I stumbled upon a peculiar "GoogleFinance" function. And lo, next to it, glowed a "GoogleInquire" function. I decided to give them a shot.

It is quite easy to embed special html code that allows you to plug-in videos (youtube, google), photos (picasaweb, flickr), audio (gmail, odeo) in blogs and wikis.

It is better even when you get a quick javascript hack of a URL combined with simple forms like BlogThis! or GoogleBookmarkThis! or GoogleReaderSubscribe! that make this embedment seamless.

This image shows the current intensity and direction along a water column when forced by a constant wind.

This was some of my early works as a phd student at Maretec. Eventually this work led to MOHID vertical unidimensional hydrodynamic model (http://www.mohid.com).
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