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We have been keeping track of the public Twitter timeline for a few months now. Until a few days all Twist showed was a 7-day window, but now you can select monthly and historical trends. For example, it seems that in late April people start talking more about the summer than about the spring:

Also, you [...]

Twist got a lot of traffic today, as it made it to the top of del.icio.us/popular. Here are very positive comments from del.icio.us users. It’s fun to look at the logs and see what people are comparing. Also, moving it to Amazon EC2 was a good idea as the traffic is not a problem at [...]

We just put up a beta version of our autotagging software at tagger.flaptor.com. It is a program that uses machine learning techniques to guess what tags could apply to a blog post or a news article. Please give it a try and tell us what you think!
Some interesting facts about it:

The current algorithm [...]

This morning I was in a meeting with a number of entrepreneurs including Martin Varsavsky from Fon. He gave a nice presentation about the concept. I got a Fonera (FON’s wifi router) at the from the meeting, which we promptly set up at Flaptor’s office. It’s a neat concept, I won’t explain it here in [...]

Flaptor is mostly about search but sometimes people want to do other stuff. I read once (I believe it was on Peopleware) that when people feel passionately about a project, it’s usually a bad idea to stop them. This is how Bonoki was born. Mono, Rafa, Pancho and Pasto have been working on it for [...]