Suranga Chandratillake gave a talk under the Next Generation Search Systems Seminar Series today. He talked about Latent Web — the web created due to implied links rather than the explicit links created by users. He argued that there are…
Innertube — a new CBS online channel
News.com reports that CBS is switching on a new broadband channel — Innertube. The broadband channel will serve as a test ground for new types of shows. Does this mean that regular broadcast channels have started really believing what many…
Changing Academic Climate
Wallm Street has a story ‘Once Collegial, Research Schools now Mean Business’ representing changing climate at research universities. Though the story talks about a professor from Arizona State, this is no exception. The situation is similar at many places. Academic…
3-D Mash-ups
Some very interesting thoughts related to 2.5-d and 3-d information related to experiential computing and abstraction are presented in an article by Fred Limp. This article clearly shows that 2.5-d though often confused with 3-d is not 3-d. In addition…
Better Search Through People
As a part of my course on Next Generation Search Systems, Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo gave a talk on the future of Web Search. His presentation was very interesting. The most important message of the presentation is captured in the…