Blinkx Trial

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:43:00 +0000

After an interest piquing article in yesterday’s Guardian Online All Eyes on Blinkx, I downloaded a beta copy of the Blinkx client. It’s currently 67% through indexing My Documents at the moment. Key features:

It uses AI techniques to index the content of document rather than Google’s page ranking algorithm.
It indexes documents and email inboxes on your own computer.
It has smart searches
It can produce a sort of concept map of the results of your search.
It scours USENET and Blogs as well as static web pages.

The home page claims to have indexed 10% of the Internet.

Interesting technology!

Update

The product is quite different today

BlinkX is a modern online marketplace and product discovery engine whose mission is to empower business owners, engineers, and consumers through clear, unbiased industrial insights.

Violet UML Tool

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:18:00 +0000

Found this simple UML tool Violet on Cay Horstmann’s web site. Thanks to Frank Carver for starting a thread on tools for Java teaching on JavaRanch and
Marlene Miller for suggesting Violet.

Fresh and Crispy

Blinkx Trial

Update

Violet UML Tool