In organizing photos, grotagging is slowly moving towards center — it is becoming a key organizing mechanism for organizing photos. I recently bought a real serious camera with built in GPS — the Nikon Coolpix P6000 — and it is well known that most phone cameras soon will have geotags — latitude and logitudes — [...]
Google maps have introducesd a nice feature on their maps. You can rightclick at any point and then select ‘What’s here?’ to get information at that point. This feature uses the resolution of the map that you are viewing. As their blog says: This feature takes into account the zoom level you’re looking at, and [...]
Technology Review reports on progress in Named Entity extraction research that will make search engines more powerful and closer to answering questions. What is really interesting is that search engines started with only ‘string matching’ or key words but are slowly becoming more ‘semantically rich’ allowing people to start getting answers rather than just simple [...]
In the passage of your life, you meet some people who make a lasting impression on you and you want them to be always part of your life. Dave Lehman was one such individual. A very creative and entrepreneurial individual, full of ideas and optimism, with a strong ‘can do’ attitude. He was a person [...]
The reaction of many people to real time search is: what is new in this. Google already does it very fast so why can it not make its search faster? Another common reaction, particularly from my academic researcher friends — many are accomplished researchers in multimedia, databases, and related areas — is so what is [...]