Kosmix is a search engine that allows users to perform advanced searches via multiple filters.
MeeHive delivers news to your iPhone and iPod touch that reflects your interests. But for a service so focused on the reader's interests
Right health which is a health focused kosmix?
TweetBeat - a twitter client with filtering?
I mean, not exactly xerox/PARC
How many nice things have Amazon open sourced?
Seriously, Walmart and Clojure? Who would have imagined! I always thought of Walmart as a boring and traditional company that sells cheap goods. So when I heard about Walmart Labs, I thought all their coding must be in C++ or Java or even Cobol (who knows!).
But to see them using a dialect of Lisp like Clojure and Go more than Java and C++ warms my heart. :-)
Good research need not always be open sourced. That is irrelevant to it's quality.
The GP asked for a good thing that came out of Walmart Labs hinting at the idea that good things come out from Amazon but not Walmart Labs. Then a few commenters pointed out a few links showing the good things that came out of Walmart Labs. All of these good things happen to be open source. So it is quite natural to ask what good things Amazon bothered to open source after having built a billion dollar business on top of open source.
- http://lacinia.readthedocs.io/
Here are a couple of other interesting Walmart Labs projects I came across:
Both Walmart Labs and Flipkart hire the best computer scientists and software engineering talent from across the country. They pay as much as and sometimes more than what Google Bangalore pays its engineers.
With Walmart now acquiring a majority stake in Flipkart, I can see the two strong and highly skilled engineering centers coming together and forming a formidable team to give a tough competition to Amazon.