Monday, May 12th, 2008
I've just updated the site to add the ability to save items and to view your saved items. Been making huge numbers of updates to the site in the last few days. Getting much closer to being feature complete.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
I found a small error in how subscriptions were checked for updates today. A list of subscriptions that required updating was selected from the database. Initially there was no sorting placed on this as it was assumed that all items would be checked. However, as the number of subscriptions has ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
So after letting the latest experiment run for awhile it's become apparent that while the new duplicate detection is better than the last setup, we're still not where we need to be.
Originally ReadPath used a duplicate detection system based on shingle comparisons of the stories. This system was incredibly effective ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
As part of the performance changes for the site, I changed the way that urls are stored and looked up. This had been done in the database, but when ReadPath reached 12 million items stored, the memory required to maintain that index got to over 3Gb. There are two other ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I spent most of the weekend working on performance updates. Several new systems have been put into place to reduce overall load on the site. Readpath is now archiving items older than two months to a separate system. For users, there shouldn't be any visible difference, but since the vast ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
We're changing our name to make it a bit clearer what we're about, so Cloudgrove is now ReadPath.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Our work is never done in making sure that the recommendations are the best that they can be. Three updates were pushed out today to try different experiments with the recommendations. Unfortunately they all faired worse than the current algorithm and so they were pulled back.
The experimentation will continue. Of ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Today the Registration Finish page was updated slightly to add the option to import your OPML files there, instead of having to go to the Preferences tab after registration. Also the formatting for the Share / Email function was updated to add the name of the post as well as ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
We're making updates to the site every day now. There were more scoring updates that went live this weekend. The OPML importer is now live, so you can import all of your feeds from Bloglines or Google Reader.
Today we also added the "Share / Email" link so that you can ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Things are getting a lot closer to Beta level. A lot of work has been done to finish things up. There are still a few things left outstanding though.
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Finish OPML importer
Add feed recommendations
Clean up search interface
Add tagging
Share / Email stories
The OPML importer is completed and testing should be ...
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