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Implemented and maintained high-performance multithreaded RSS parser/crawler with java.util.concurrent thread pooling, Hibernate/MySQL ORM layer, and Jakarta Commons Digester, and Spring/XFire as the web services interface.

Designed a Latent Semantic Analysis framework (using a custom made asymmetric generalized hebbian algorithm for non-memory limited SVD) for content clustering and "related words" concept modeling / query expansion.

Wrote cross-browser save Rails code to display searchable / tagable / commentable podcast RSS content.