Monthly Archives: November 2007

an encounter with the pavement

It is hard to be the distant girlfriend when your sweet, lovely man gets hit by a truck! Poor Leify was biking home from work yesterday when he came to a stop light. When the light turned green, he pedaled forward. But the truck next to him decided to make a sharp, 90-degree right turn [...]

Powerset numbers

Damn, I lose the bet to Leif. At least as of July 2007, there are 72 employees at Powerset. I guessed 20–I don’t know what I was thinking. (Yes, I do! I was thinking they were a “start-up”…and start-ups are small.) At least Leif’s guess of 40 was off too, just off in the right [...]

If Powerset isn’t on Wikipedia, does that mean it doesn’t exist?

Powerset is not on Wikipedia! I thought Wikipedia had the answer to everything, no? So with no Wikipedia entry, then Powerset must be, what, made-up? In fact some might claim exactly that… But not so, and I can prove it with my new account on PowerLabs! PowerLabs is a collection of demos of Powerset’s technology [...]

daily links 11/03/2007

Social Networking More Popular than Porn? Perhaps it’s not that social networking is more popular than porn, but that individual users have multiple accounts with different social networking services which biases the results. - post by bmevans Facebook: More Popular Than Porn Interesting data suggesting that social networking sites are more popular than porn in 18-24 year [...]