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Lookery's Scott Rafer: Advice in the Aftermath
Written by Dana Oshiro / November 7, 2009 11:10 AM / 5 Comments

After successfully selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo, it was surprising to see Lookery founder Scott Rafer write a blog post announcing his company's "orderly shutdown". In heartbreaking detail he took full

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PeopleMaps: Map Leads from Unconventional Connections
Written by Dana Oshiro / October 20, 2009 2:22 PM / 1 Comments

The problem with most contact management tools is that only a portion of your acquaintances are considered useful. Meanwhile, unconventional contacts like PTA parents, yoga partners and softball teammates remain

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Semantic Search Engine Gets Help from Facebook Friends
Written by Dana Oshiro / June 23, 2009 3:00 AM / 4 Comments

Perhaps the biggest problem with natural language search is that it's incredibly difficult to try and automate machine-assigned ontologies. Essentially, machines just don't get it. This is precisely the

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