No use getting sentimental? Think again!

October 13th, 2011 by Bengt Holm

The last few months, following summer, I have had a strong hunch that the prospects of sentiment analysis in general look very bright. Why? Because the marriage between semantic methods in linguistics and scientific methods from statistics and computer science is very timely and is starting to pay dividends. With social media becoming more and …

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When machine learning techniques scale

October 5th, 2011 by Anders Hall

As a startup in 2008, we found ourselves in a situation were we had the outlines for a heavy technology at our hands though hardly the perfect palette of competences, or the needed breadth of skills, to cover every programming aspect ranging from web to low level algorithm development (math). In our tiny company, we …

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Saplo in the finals of a… golf tournament?

September 6th, 2011 by Joakim Stenberg

Yes, you heard right, there are developers out there who know one or two things about golf. But what’s the odds that two of these very odd developers would be located under the same roof… Fredrik Hörte and Joakim Stenberg has taken Team Saplo all the way to the finals of the prestigious Swedish Business …

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6 Reasons Why Start-ups Should Use Cloud Services Like Amazon Web Services (AWS)

August 30th, 2011 by Ikrom Hotamov

Amazon is a very convenient way for start-up companies to set their businesses up in a short amount of time. Especially with the variety of services it offers to easily scale out your business. We (Saplo) is one of such companies, taking advantage of Amazon’s Web Services and APIs here are our top six reasons …

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5 Ways Google+ Can Fight Facebook

August 17th, 2011 by Mattias Tyrberg

Google+ has been out for one and a half month now and usage is growing but is it enough? There are some key features that are missing that would help Google+ to be a better alternative to Facebook. I will not focus on the most obvious ones (such as search, because its coming) but on …

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