Alexa is Implementing Self-Learning Techniques To Better Understand Users Dec 10@3:30am: In a developer blog post published this week, Alexa AI director of applied science Ruhi Sarikaya detailed the advances in machine learning technologies that have allowed Alexa to better understand users through contextual clues. From a report: Acc...
[from Slashdot]
The Electric Airplane Revolution May Come Sooner Than You Think Dec 10@1:00am: An anonymous reader shares a report: An all-electric mini-airliner that can go 621 miles on one charge and replace many of the turboprops and light jets in use now -- flying almost as far and almost as fast but for a fraction of the running costs ...
[from Slashdot]
10 Brand and Marketing Trends to Watch in 2019 Dec 7@11:40am: Metrics matter. In business they measure sales, they measure profits, they measure brand health. Marketers measure their reputations, their ad recall, and their shares-of-market. They measure tweets and shares and all sorts of social networking ou...
[from E-Commerce Times]
Is IBM's Watson Still an AI Success Story? Dec 6@11:13am: IBM's artificial intelligence creation Watson wowed the world with its appearance on the TV game show, Jeopardy! less than a decade ago. It was amazing to see a computer play against human beings and do so well. It showed how IBM was on a rapid gr...
[from E-Commerce Times]
SEO Tip for Apache + WordPress: Use Lowercase Domain Names Jan 7@3:24pm: A few days ago, I was surprised to see that, according to Google Webmaster Tools, a lot of the pages on several of my sites were marked as "Not Selected" for indexing. Usually, that would indicate duplicate content, or that there are multiple URLs...
[from Web Design ? Alpha Gecko]
How to Embed One XML Format in Another Jul 25@2:33pm: I've got an idea I'd like to suggest, but don't feel inclined to champion right now. So I post it here and either come back to it later, or let someone else run with it. First, a little background. While working on the Atom feed format, one issue ...
[from Atom/RSS ? Alpha Gecko]
How Very Ironic of You, SpamArrest… Dec 2@1:30pm: I got another of those emails from SpamArrest today asking me to verify that one of the emails to my mailing list wasn't spam. This time, something on SpamArrest's website struck me as ironic, if not downright hypocritical. SpamArrest is a whiteli...
[from Email ? Alpha Gecko]
GMail Marks Own Message As SPAM! Aug 5@9:47am: Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I'd specified. That email address forwards everything to my GMail account. After several minutes, th...
[from Email ? Alpha Gecko]
Tweeting From My RSS Feed Reader May 21@9:27pm: I just sent an updated version of Lobster - my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support -- tweet directly from your feed reader. Lobster automatically generates tweet text from the title and link from each RSS item. Ed...
[from Atom/RSS ? Alpha Gecko]
Browser & Screen Resolution Trends Jul 7@7:31pm: I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise! Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost ex...
[from Web Design ? Alpha Gecko]
Move the mouse over the scroller to pause scrolling.
The complete source to this example is included in the Tetra package.
This example uses CaRP to aggregate the contents of nine RSS feeds and display them in the scroller.