Continuing my Mozilla Test Pilot tabs data analysis informed by some official work…. I’ve started to work with time and the event sequencing of tab usage. This involved significant data transformations, see below.
Timing & Event Sequences
Here’s a look at what happens *after* a page loads in a firefox tab:
~83% of the time another page is [...]
The Mozilla Labs TestPilot project has just released it’s first round of data on tab usage. Getting started with a dataset begins with exploration, confirming basic hypotheses before getting fancy. Here’s an exploratory look at the “vanilla 30″ Test Pilot dataset with color coding on average tabs across a day done with GGobi.
high [...]
While at MSFT, I had the pleasure of using a system called Phlat in it’s early stages. It tackled desktop search and file system tagging along with a search UI that did attribute enumeration and filters for result sets. Only some of the phlatitude made it into windows desktop search alas. In any [...]
I’ve adapted the about:me experimental extension to report on search behavior. About-me is described as:
A statistical analysis of the user’s history, average tab load, etc. Like Google Zeitgeist, but based on their Places database.
I blogged about mining the Places db (sqlite) for search experience metrics some time ago, and posted polished sql [...]
There’s another worthy challenge, and opportunity, from Mozilla for visualizing the community. The turbo-river-of-news Lizard Feeder mashup flows data from bugs, microblogs, the wiki, etc. With the options dropdown, you can fast forward up to 200x and select any day of the last 60.
The call to action is to build on the Lizard [...]
The version of wordPress powering this site was massively out of date (v2.0) and I paid the price. Two spam infilitrations inserted links into older posts and created a whole directory of spam content.
The upgrade was smooth and mostly painless… as Dougal says “Upgrade or Else“. Indeed, while most of the spam was [...]
As we wrote about in the PIKII paper (full text), the web has evolved to partially support most of the key tenets of traditional hypertext. A notable exception is trails, or maps through information space, that can be shared, followed, and augmented. For a indepth primer on the history here, see the web [...]
Google’s new feed API inspired me to create a little Windows Live & Google mashup. While the Google API lets you get posts for a specific feed, it doesn’t help you find feeds.
With the isfeed: operator over at MSN, I was able to find the top 10 feeds on a topic, then use Google’s API [...]
Back in the day, among the set of “bloggers” dubbed by Kotke as “Ye Old Skoole” at some point not retrievable by the wayback machine, Dave Winer and Jorn Barger were some of the most dedicated daily publishers, amongst the “corporate media” of hotwired and suck.
Jorn and Dave wrote very differently. Jorn invented the [...]
Just over two years ago I gave up firefox hacking and joined MSFT, working for the web search team at then MSN. I summarized that experience gently over at blogs.msdn, but in short, I’m no longer working for the empire. For this blog venue, let me just say there’s no ambiguity where the engine room [...]
Over on my MSDN blog I’ve written about my first public hack in *the two years* I’ve been at microsoft. Shocking! Fix is in the works
Here’s a little hattip to the faithful Mozilla community that still hasn’t dropped me from planet.mozilla despite years of neglect.
Peruse the top 100 Live Search ranked [...]
I started web publishing with Frontier, capitalizing on the verdant ecosystem of userTalk/object db modules in 97. Back from holiday travels, I’ve just caught up with the latest OPML Editor foo and have installed the wordpress and river of news “roots”. Nice to see signs of life in the Frontier platform.
The news river interface [...]
The augmenting human intellect discussion at seattle mind camp was reinvigorating for me. The pratical aspects of shipping software in the Microsoft world have kept me pretty focused on the here and now for the last year, but I have a real passion for the visions expressed prior to the rise of personal computing. [...]
Ahh, how old is new again. With sessions on “augmenting human intellect” and annotation, the early dream of computers empowering people is alive and kicking. I pitched the PIKII ideas a number of times — point out how the weblogging world has grafted many of Nelson’s ideas onto the web.
While I’m not satisfied [...]
All the action is over in my delicious link blog, here’s a view:
One of the highlights is Infosthetics, a rocking visualization blog featuring an innovative color clock. I took a similar, though less sexy, take on the clock with the anolital design. Mixing analog and digital, it provides both direct read access of digital [...]
I’ve listened to some really great podcasts lately, but the lackluster experiences are more frequent. For the gems, I’d love to be able to easily point to them or log a del.licio.us style lick.
Some highlights:
A delightful romp through the history of technology invention with John Markoff
Though I was skeptical of “the long [...]
Clickity clickity click. Reading blogs by browsing from the calendar UI is hideously bad for chronological browsing (though it goes both ways forward and back in time easily enough) as well as finding specific content. Nobody but the weblog author is going to remember the exact post date a week later. Permalinks [...]
While the recent move across multiple industry players to support rel=”no-follow” on links is a positive step, it falls rather short. Vote links, with -1,0, or 1 values, would have been a much more interesting solution to this problem and left room for the community to engender evolution, instead of simply elimenating a threat [...]
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