Monthly Archives: July 2009

Spinn3r Hiring Support Engineer 0

We’re hiring a Support Engineer at Spinn3r. This is a key hire (and will take a lot of work off my shoulders) so we plan on taking our time to find the right candidate. That said, this is an awesome opportunity to get in and work on a rapidly growing startup. About Spinn3r: Spinn3r is [...]

NYTimes, on Memetracker, and Spinn3r 0

I didn’t have time to blog about this when it was originally posted but the NYTimes has a great piece on the cool work done by Jure Leskovec and Jon Kleinberg with their work on Memetracker (which is powered by Spinn3r). For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically [...]

The Königsberg Bridge Problem or Where Graph Theory was Invented 0

If you’ve studied graph theory you may have bumped into The Königsberg Bridge Problem which is essentially the first modern use of Graph Theory. The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands which were connected to each other and the [...]

Spinn3r at Real Time Stream Crunchup, RSS Speedups, and Startup Discounts 0

Spinn3r will be at the Real Time Stream Crunchup tomorrow (which should be fun). There should be more announcements about realtime RSS which is interesting: While there is an argument to be made that RSS is dying, being replaced by more instantaneous forms of content delivery such as Twitter and other real time streams, many [...]

Spinn3r Hiring Crawl Engineer 0

We’re hiring a Crawl Engineer at Spinn3r. This is a key hire (and will take a lot of work off my shoulders) so we plan on taking our time to find the right candidate. That said, it’s an awesome opportunity to get in and work on a rapidly growing startup. About Spinn3r: Spinn3r is a [...]