If you are interested in test driving EventWeb, please visit www.seraja.com and send a request. SEraja is going to start their prebeta version beginning March 15th and is planning to invite around 300 people to play with their system to…
Riya — computer vision in search
A video interview and demo of riya.com from Demo2006 shows how computer vision technology is being applied in search and management of your pictures. I know that many of my computer vision people will find it inspiring that a company…
A Great but failed vision: MediaLab Asia
Media Lab Asia was a great vision that was not successful. One of those great ideas that demonstrate that great vision and wonderful ideas fail miserably if the ‘operations’ side — commonly ignored or considered unimportant part by several visionaries…
Research in search — really?
Yahoo! and Microsoft are building research labs to do research in Search to compete against Google. As pointed out in this article the real fight is not about Search but about Advertisements: Instead, the real opportunities come from getting more…
New Search Companies
It does appear that Search has become very ‘hot’ and is resulting lots of attention from even seasoned entrepreneurs. I have a dear friend (in fact more than just a friend — my ex-student (or an academic offspring) and cofounder…