Microsoft’s Xbox Live Blogger from CES
Posted by Robert Scoble
Larry Hryb is one of Microsoft’s most famous bloggers. He works on the Xbox Live team and visited the CES BlogHaus to talk about what he’s seeing.
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Retrevo Gang: Report from CES, Part II
Posted by Robert Scoble
Andrew Eisner, head geek from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, and Fred Davis, who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things, sit down for the second of two fun reports from the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 in Las Vegas.
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Cool new 3D search interface from CES 2008
Posted by Robert Scoble
One of the coolest things I saw at CES was SpaceTime.com, which brings us a 3D view of search and browsing. It is something you have to see to appreciate and Eddie Bakhash, CEO, gives us a great demo.
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A little treat: my first girlfriend
Posted by Robert Scoble
While at the BlogHaus at CES 2008 I had a little surprise: my first girlfriend from high school showed up. I hadn’t seen her since 1983. She’s now director of marketing at Plantronics, and we have a fun chat about high school back in the 1980s with Fred Davis, the guy who helped start Wired Magazine, among other things. Fun conversation and a little personal too boot!
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Finding the Levenshtein distance in Python
Posted by Poromenos
I discovered today that Moneygement won't accept unicode characters when someone adds transactions by email because of the editdist module I used to check it. Since I don't really need a fast function to do it (it's all eight-letter words on average), I decided to write my own Python version of the function and am sharing it here if anyone needs it (because I haven't found a Python implementation anywhere). It's released under a BSD license with attribution, meaning that I'd like it if my name was mentioned where it is used :)
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