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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Social stuff: 6:15pm

Presentations: 7:00pm

Boulders on Broadway
530 W Broadway Road
Tempe, AZ 85282

Google map: http://rubyurl.com/SKAU

See http://www.refactorphoenix.com for details

This months general topic:

Relevance Linking Outperforms Popularity Linking; Arkayne.com Has The Numbers

Find out how technology like Amazon EC2, Django, and Ruby On Rails are pushing the performance of semantic link relevance past basic popularity ranking.

Paul Kenjora will explain how the Arkayne.com widget is leveraging these technologies to deliver a 2% – 80% click-through on suggested links for blog posts.

It’s going to change the way bloggers promote articles and its all getting started right here in Phoenix.

Refactor Phoenix is a monthly non-denominational gathering of desert geeks, dedicated to the open exchange of information in a casual environment.

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

If you’re a (coder|programmer|software engineer|hacker|developer), Refactor Phoenix is for you.

For more information, please see

http://www.refactorphoenix.com

or contact me at

james@happycamperstudios.com

(602) 714-1148