WSJ has a front page story on their effort to build strong team of academicians. The article says: Yahoo was blindsided by Google’s sophisticated Web search. One of Yahoo’s advertising-sales techniques also underperforms its rival’s, and when Yahoo said last…
Yahoo stocking up on Academics
Novel uses of cameraphones: diet
WSJ has a story that talks about an innovative and novel use of camera phones to control your diet. Two weeks ago, she signed up for Nutrax, a free online diet service that lets her use a camera phone to…
EventWeb3: Defining ‘event’
Objects in common language remain vague and are understood more clearly and precisely in a specific context. For computers, objects must be defined more precisely. In computer science one defines objects as having two important components: data associated with the…
From Documents to Experiences
Mike Elgan interviewed me for their Great Mind series on DevSource. You can visit this site to see the interview. Mike is right in expressing my views: We’re all slaves to the keyword, Jain says. “This is a very primitive…
Media Gap
There is a big cultural gap between Internet, particularly search engines that rely on text, and video communities. There is an article (Thanks, Rajesh) in Advertising Age that talks about Comcast having ambitions to become another Yahoo, or better, in…