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Archive for October, 2004

Photos: Write only memory!!!

Posted by Ramesh on October 11th, 2004

Mohan Kankanhalli sent me a link to a very interesting article by David Weinberg.  This article, ˇ°Point. Shoot. Kiss it Good-Bye.ˇ± is available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/photo.html . Some interesting quotes from this article are: ˇ°But having thousands of photos on a hard disk or DVD-ROM is the equivalent of throwing Bettmann’s images into the air and [...]

Interactive Digital Multimedia at UC Santa Barbara

Posted by Ramesh on October 10th, 2004

I visited University of California Santa Barbara as an advisory board member for there Graduate program in Interactive Digital Multimedia.  I am hearing about programs that are getting established between new media and computer science.  This is an interesting area and I am happy that they requested me to be on their advisory board.  I [...]

Clusty: a new (supposedly) search engine

Posted by Ramesh on October 4th, 2004

Last Thursday, September 30, a new search site was launched.  Clusty is launched by a clustering company Vivisimo that was founded in 2000 by some computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University.  The launch of Clusty was announced using flattering headlines in national news media like ˇ°New Company Starts Up a Challenge to Googleˇ±.  I guess [...]

PC-TV COnvergence — Comcast talking about it

Posted by Ramesh on October 1st, 2004

Comcast is the leader among cable companies.  It also owns or has access to many content companies.  In the last one week, I saw three interviews of Comcast CEO, Mr. Brian Roberts and COO Stephen Burks.  These interviews have one direct message:  Comcast is becoming a product company in the converged TV –Computer space.  Some [...]