Friday, April 8, was the main day for what is commonly called Hanami ( Flower Festival) in Japan. The cherry blossoms are supposed to be the peak that day and people celebrate that by going out on that evening to…
Cameraphones at Hanami
Changing nature of data and search perspectives
Bob Wyman (cofounder and CTO of pubsub.com) has been arguing that one should consider searches in two clear categories: retroactive searches and proactive searches. Retroactive searches are the searches that we are the common theme in databases and search engines. …
Camera binoculars — towards eChronicles
There is a nice article in NYT today about camera binoculars. Another gizmo in popularizing use of digital cameras for taking pictures and videos. Seethis NYT article This is more than a cute device. This in fact is an indicator…
How useful are tags?
Search space is now becoming very active. And Diller’s interest in ASKJ is not the only reason. There has been a lot of talk about image, audio, and video search lately. Recently there is a lot of talk about a…
Interesting things happening in search space
Is tagging really useful.