The blog of Kristóf Kovács

Fresh out of the oven:

So you want to build a better search engine

Lots of hungarian (and I presume other countries has the same situation) startups are trying to build search engines nowadays. That's what they believe in, and who am I to doubt them.

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What can you learn from a prototype?

I’m having an idea for a Twitter mesh-up. It’s based on the idea that some tweets are worth more than others, and maybe there is a criteria to determine it. Last week I had one free evening to work a little on this side project, and since it’s mine alone, I’m free to blog about it. [...]

Just musings...

• This syntax-highlighting plugin does such a beautiful work, I'm seriously tempted to blog more program code. :) #
• My brief take on the "help, the electronic media is killing us!" screaming: If you are a "breaking news"-based (print or electronic) outlet, Twitter & co will kill you. It was nice knowing you. If you are bringing news analysis or situational analysis to the table, stop trying to charge for your archives! Charge for fresh content, show older for free. If you write content that has value for a long time (i.e. NOT based on the news), THEN charge for you archive. It's not that hard. #
• To make MacVim zoom in both directions, open a Terminal window, and enter: defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMZoomBoth 1 #
• I finally put my "kkrc" script and the accompanying .rc files (.vimrc, .screenrc, .zshrc) on github, under the BSD license. Check it out at kkrc.git! Feel free to fork it if you don’t like my defaults, and update the .rc files with your ones. #
• Hey, I worked for this guy who is in the Economist's "face value" column! Not for him personally, of course, but I was on the team that developed Meinl Bank's web-trading system. #