Yes, CocaCola wants to launch a mobile social network to attract young audience. more details at http://news.com.com/Cokes+new+fizz+a+mobile+social+network/2100-1024_3-6189329.html?tag=html.alert.hed . Just yesterday after my India trip I had started thinking about this more as a result of Rajesh’s enthusiasm about MyToday’ and its…
Towards unified search — Ask
Ask.com has updated their search environment. Now it tries to present results from conventional search along with image search, blog search, and makes suggestions for narrowing or enlarging your search. Interesting interface. I like that they have taken a step…
Humans in Search Engine
After a big — a real BIG — success of automatic search technology in search engines, it appears that the humans (editors or guides or whatever term you like) are back in refining search. Mahalo launched a human powered search…
Revolutionary changes thru inputs
In a very interesting article in WSJ, Bill Gates emphasized that r4evokutionary changes in computing will come thru inputs. Mr. Gates predicted that a “revolutionary” change to computing will come as new ways of inputting data into the computer gradually…
Richer Maps
While on the topic of maps, I think it is equally interesting — in fact in some respects more impressive, to visit Microsoft’s maps.live.com and see the 3D maps of New York or other areas there. Â