The latest Time has Twitter on Cover and a very nice article by Steven Johnson. I did not think that Twitter has any potential when I first heard about it – so following really resonated well with me: The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first [...]
The biggest challenge in real time search is how do you minimize latency — the time lag — between creation of some data/event and it getting indexed and delivered to interested receivers. In traditional search, crawlers will periodically visit every site and analyze the site to index it. In response to search request, the engine [...]
There is a new assistant announced for iPhone. According to this article Siri deals with the hassle of accessing multiple sites to explore options, make choices, get reservations and buy tickets. It saves your favorites, keeps track of your bookings, and helps you remember what you liked about a place or event. It helps you [...]
Last week I gave a talk at CHORUS Conference in Brussels, Belgium on my vies of current search and the future of search, particularly of multimedia search. In fact all future search will be multimedia search so ther term ‘multimedia’ here is soon going to be redundant and will disappear like ‘digital’ has from digital [...]