We all know that Search is for humans. All search engines are designed to help humans. Lately search engines have started emphasizing that purly machine based search can only take the effectiveness of search (for humans) so far. This is…
SenseWeb
Rajesh (from emergic.org) pointed out an interesting article that is related to the one that I mentioned in my last post. This article describes a project by Dr. Nath of Microsoft to assimilate all sensory information and present it live:…
Real Time Maps
A project at MIT takes data from laptops and mobile phones to create real time maps of human activities in cities or spaces. These maps can be very useful in many applications. These maps also create challenging issues for those…
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…
Ever-widening web
Larry Williams has an interesting article in Baltimore Sun. He starts out with interesting perspective and numbers. Just when you think you have the Internet figured out, it evolves again, presenting fresh promises and complexity. That’s what’s happening in 2006…