Sometimes it is difficult to separate vision from hype. A recent report about search engines (see News.com report) is a good example of this. It reports: “Search engines try to train us to become good keyword searchers. We dumb down our intelligence so it will be natural for the computer,” said Pell, whose company, Powerset, [...]
I heard from multiple sources including Michael Parekh and Bradley Horowitz (see his blog) that Upcoming and Flickr are going to make it easy to post each other’s content. Well, that was expected to happen. It does show the importance of experiential components in Events. Upcoming seems to be a growing calendar of events (see [...]
News.com has two articles related to photos today. First one talks about the enhanced photo sharing software from HP. For example, Group Rooms, a new photo-sharing tool, allows users to create their own Web page, with a unique URL, to which the page creator, and invited friends and family, can add and view photos. Group [...]
A fundamental insight brought into the creation of WWW by Sir Tim Barners-Lee was that documents could be linked to each other by creating links explicitly among them. Before that each document on Internet was an independent document. By creating tools and environment so documents could be linked and could be created and accessed easily, [...]
The experiential attributes of an event are fundamentally different from informational attributes. Each experiential attribute represents a data (stream) that is experienced using a specific natural human sensor. Thus we may have visual data, audio, tactile, olfactory, and taste related data. Currently good sensing and reproduction techniques are available for visual (image and video) and [...]