Arup Chakraborty brought to my attention a great story from NYT some time ago. This story talks about social networking for people who don’t have computers: Babajob seeks to bring the social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people…
3D movies
A good analysis of 3 3D movie technologies is given here. Stephen Shankland saw Beowulf in all 3 forms: Imax 3D, Real D, and Dolby 3D. After seeing the same movie twice in each of these formats, he concluded that…
Places coming to Flickr
Flickr is introducing a feature called places — this will give photos taken at a place. You should be able to search based on the name of a place and find photos taken there. Photo organization is an important problem…
E2E: Environemnt to Environment Connection
I have been working on a proposal to establish an ambitious project for building concepts and techniques related to a new communication approach — E2E or Environment to Environment connection. By using many devices like phones — really a microphone-speaker…
Cameras will recognize you
Now that face detection technology has become kind of common in digital cameras, no wonder that people have started thinking about cameras with face recognition. An interesting piece on this was posted by Stephen Shankland. Face recognition is definitely much…