Bradley Horowitz has a nice post on emerging social aspects on the Web. He says something really important: In the new paradigm of “programming� where there are a million things on at any instant, we’re going to need some new and different models of directing our attention. In the transition from atoms-to-bits, scarcity-to-plenty, etc. instead [...]
I played with the new ask.com. It has really become new — many features from Ask Jeeves are gone and the new site is much improved in many respects. I particularly liked their maps. You can get driving and walking directions. More importantly, the simple animation of your directions is neat feature — it animates [...]
NYT has a story on News Corp, owner of Fox TV, describing their emphasis on cellular phones or on creating mobile content. In what is the boldest venture yet by an established media company to insinuate itself into millions of cellphones, the News Corporation has created a mobile entertainment store called Mobizzo and a production [...]
Stuart Ross pointed me to an article in National Geographic that paints a picture of next generation surveillance systems using audio and video. It points out how emerging technology could do more effective surveillance using audio and dideo analysis techniques that are already being developed — of course it takes long time from inception in [...]
I saw this interesting news about a new video data set being acquired by Google and being put in public. Here is a great data sets for video researchers interested in developing video analysis and information management techniques. This data set will be made available by Google and will have strong time and historical elements [...]