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POPSClipmarks update...introducing ClipSearch! Thank you to everyone who pushed us to get moving on this one. We're very excited about how much better the overall Clipmarks experience is with ClipSearch. Read the full blog post here . In the blog post, there is an overview of some other changes that we also made to the site.
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POPSHumans filtering for humans - now why didn't i think of that? Ok, i'd by lying if i didn't acknowledge a little bit of frustration these days. With everyone jumping on the concept of human filtered search, i can't help but feel a little bit of "wtf do you think clipmarks.com has been doing for years?". That said, i suppose the time has come when the market is listening to this kind of talk so we better make sure we're in the conversation.
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POPSThe color of plants on other worlds What color will alien plants be? The question matters scientifically because the surface color of a planet can reveal whether anything lives there—specifically, whether organisms collect energy from the parent star by the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is adapted to the spectrum of light that reaches organisms. This spectrum is the result of the parent star’s radiation spectrum, combined with the filtering effects of the planet’s atmosphere and, for aquatic creatures, of liquid water. Light of any color from deep violet through the near-infrared could power photosynthesis. Around stars hotter and bluer than our sun, plants would tend to absorb blue light and could look green to yellow to red. Around cooler stars such as red dwarfs, planets receive less visible light, so plants might try to absorb as much of it as possible, making them look black.<<
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POPSDoes Earth harbour a 'shadow biosphere' of alien life? "Our search for life based on our assumptions of life as we know it. Weird life and normal life could be intermingled, and filtering out the things we understand about life as we know it from the things we don't understand is tricky." The tools and experiments researchers use to look for new forms of life - such as those on missions to Mars - would not detect biochemistries different from our own, making it easy for scientists to miss alien life, even if was under their noses.
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POPSThe Song Decoders What an interesting concept. Would any clippers like to share some of their favorite tunes and why they think they like them?
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POPSArtificial Liver Shows Early Promise Toxins in the plasma flow through the fiber membrane, where they are metabolized by the liver cells. The cells also synthesize essential proteins, such as blood-clotting factors, which diffuse back into the plasma. The filtered plasma is then recombined with the cellular components of blood and returned to the patient. A clinical trial in China found that patients treated with the ELAD fared significantly better than those who did not get the treatment. Another study began in the United States in October. Artificial Liver Shows Early Promise
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POPSSocial search puts the power of people above the power of algorithms My entire career has been dedicated to the belief that (i) people can do a better job of filtering the information that's available on the web than any algorithms; (ii) serendipitous discovery of information is often more compelling than structured information organized in channels; (iii) people are interested in learning about more topics than they're aware of or have time for but can only do so thru the findings of others. Twitter has proven these to be true on a massive scale. In my opinion, Clipmarks offers a very compelling user experience outside of twitter and amplify is quickly becoming a compelling solution for users of twitter. the game is most certainly not over!
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POPSFirm pays cash for fake positive reviews Yep, that’s right, according to his LinkedIn profile, Bayard is the Business Development Representative at Belkin International in charge of “Sales of Belkin products to major .com accounts such as Amazon.com.” In other words, this guy is paying people to post fake good reviews of his own products which, according to most people who actually use them, suck (and ironically, he’s using Amazon’s own service to screw up their own review system).
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POPSHow the Internet Works in Iran " But if the destination is not on the forbidden list, it's allowed to go through. Outside Iran, the proxy servers are like transit points. Activists set up proxy servers on their own computers, using Internet Protocol numbers that don't appear on the forbidden list. Traffic from Iran can go through to those addresses with no problem. The data traffic is then forwarded to wherever it's destined to go, even if that destination is supposedly forbidden. During the post-election crisis, proxy servers have been popping up like thousands of computerized "Casablanca" cafes around the world. The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site based in Sweden, launched an anonymous Net-surfing forum to help Iran's opposition - but most of the proxy providers are amateurs."
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POPSAT&T And Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready To Filter Internet civil rights organizations oppose network-level filtering, arguing that it amounts to Big Brother monitoring of free speech, and that such filtering could block the use of material that may fall under fair-use legal provisions — uses like parody, which enrich our culture. “The volume of peer-to-peer traffic online, dominated by copyrighted materials, is overwhelming. That clearly should not be an acceptable, continuing status,” he said. “The question is how we collectively collaborate to address this.”
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