Biweekly links for 01/05/2009

• Paul Buchheit: Overnight success takes a long time
  • Interesting discussion of what it takes to develop a successful technology, from one of the founders of FriendFeed, and the original creator of gmail.
• Trevor Strohman: Efficient Processing of Complex Features for Information Retrieval
  • Trevor Strohman’s thesis. Surveys search systems, and develops TupleFlow, a system extending MapReduce, intended for use in building certain indices for use in search
• Cloud N
  • Excellent blog on cloud and massively parallel computing from Bill McColl.
• The washing machine on Twitter
  • “A [...] bright and entrepreneurial young man has hacked a washing machine so that it tweets every time it finishes a load of laundry. Presumably so he can get a direct reminder to hang the load out, or put it on to dry.”

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