Link blogging

Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
Today I’m releasing SocialHistory.js, code which enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use.
(tags: javascript social media)

Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender
So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS [...]

Official Google Blog: New enhancements on the Google content network
Frequency Capping, Frequency Reporting, Improved Ads Quality, View-Through Conversions
(tags: google adwords)

Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Power law distributions, the shape that has spawned a number of catch-phrases like the 80/20 Rule and the Winner-Take-All Society, are finally being understood clearly enough to be useful.
(tags: powerlaw theory)

Rails Envy: Oscon Videos
Last week at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) I decided to put together a video attempting to capture the essence of the event (I did something similar with Railsconf in 36 minutes earlier this year).
(tags: oscon opensource)