Seattle conference on scalability
We care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn't cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to talk about big ideas, so we're planning our first ever conference on scalable systems. It will take place on June 23 at our Seattle office. Our goal: to create a collegial atmosphere for participants to brainstorm different ways to build the robust systems that can handle, literally, a worl
A conversation with Dan Chudnov about OpenURL, context-sensitive linking, and digital archiving
Todays podcast with Dan Chudnov is a sequel to my earlier podcast with Tony Hammond about the Nature Publishing Groups use of digital object identifiers. I invited Dan to discuss related topics including the OpenURL standard for context-sensitive linking.
Im not the only one whos had a hard time understanding how these technologies relate to one [...]
Im not the only one whos had a hard time understanding how these technologies relate to one [...]
XMP and microformats revisited
Yesterday I exercised poetic license when I suggested that Adobes Extensible metadata platform (XMP) was not only the spiritual cousin of microformats like hCalendar but also, perhaps, more likely to see widespread use in the near term. My poetic license was revoked, though, in a couple of comments:
Mike Linksvayer: How someone as massively clued-in as [...]
Mike Linksvayer: How someone as massively clued-in as [...]
Links for 2007-02-17 [del.icio.us]
- » From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0) | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029, the WebOS will be parallel to the human brain
Links for 2007-02-16 [del.icio.us]
- Yahoo! Developer Network Using Krugle at Tag Edge
By forming this partnership, I think Yahoo! and Krugle will create a strong network and online tools for the developers to find, and share the codes available on the web.
Links for 2007-02-15 [del.icio.us]
- MyStrands, GMail Opens Up, Krugle-Yahoo, TripUp, Famster, MySpace Suit, Bloglines Image Wall
Krugle, the code search engine, has scored a victory after being selected to power the search on the Yahoo Developer Network, the place to find info about Yahoo’s APIs and web services. - Badger : Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes - Brewster's Field Guide to Web 2.666
To implement Badger, you'll need a whopping 26 lines of code. - Yahoo Lays Out Details Of Its New Advertiser &a
The Real Reason I Love My BlackBerry
Yesterday I came across yet another (read: tired subject matter) article about the perils of living in an "always on" culture with the advent of portable devices like BlackBerrys and Treos. While I fall into the camp of viewing the carrying of a device with me "liberating" as opposed to draining, my reasoning goes beyond purely staying connected via e-mail anywhere I am (which is obviously a huge benefit). With my 8700 series, the mobile browser functionality actually works rather well. And with that, I have my my.yahoo page as the default home page. Even more than with a PC...
Asking About the Founding Story
A year ago I posted about when I meet with entrepreneurs for the first time that I like to ask about the founding story, the plot of how the idea for the company was generated and how the principals in it came together. These intangible details of a founding story accurately portray a startup as a unique coalescence of real people, not just a valuable aggregation of human and technological capital. I wanted to add that I believe that learning the founding story also helps us as VCs evaluate and better understand entrepreneurial teams in situations where we haven’t had...
Newt And Other Mavericks
Newt Gingrich could be the surprise of 2008, says this story. Could be, but don't think so. Newt is indeed a fountain of ideas--good ideas--but the flip side is his short attention span and lack of discipline. Newt makes fundraisers...
Google Acquires Adscape Media: Interactive Online Gaming Advertisement and Gaming System Developers
According to news reports, Google has completed a deal to acquire Adscape Media, a company located in San Francisco which has developed ways for advertisers to show fresh and changeable (dynamic) advertisements within video games which can be shown without interrupting gameplay.
The company (in an earlier incarnation) also has developed patented technology for [...]
The company (in an earlier incarnation) also has developed patented technology for [...]
Feedback on Custom Search Engines
Ive been using Eureksters custom search engine to enable people to search for information about search engine patents from this site (see the Search Patent Swicki in the right column at top).
Im interested in hearing from anyone who has tried it out to see what they think about this custom search. Do [...]
Im interested in hearing from anyone who has tried it out to see what they think about this custom search. Do [...]
NSF Looking for a Better Wiki
Ross Stapleton-Gray pointed me to an NSF award to the University of Colorado for SGER: A New Generation Wiki for Supporting a Research Community in Creativity and IT: The proposed research will create environments that go beyond existing Wikis (being...
Adobe to launch online video editing with Photobucket
Back in October, in the context of Larry Lessig's tongue-lashing of YouTube as a "fake sharing" site because it didn't allow remixing, I pointed out: We don't have the same free tools for managing and editing video that we have...
Microfluidic Bubble Logic
In the current issue of Science, Manu Prakash and Neil Gershenfeld report on their work with "bubble logic" [pdf]: "We demonstrate universal computation in an all-fluidic two-phase microfluidic system. A bubble traveling in a channel represents a bit, providing us...
Television and the Internet
As you know, there’s plenty of video on the Web. You can go to YouTube and see almost anything you want, most of it dreadful but some of it pretty good. You can also post your own videos on YouTube and you can vote on YouTube videos to try to help other people find the good ones. But this isn’t...
Spring Must Be Near
The weather was warm and clear today. There was just enough heat and instability in the atmosphere to produce some light thermals, so I had to go up for a flight in BASA's SZD-51-1 "Junior"
I hadn't been in much of a thermal for a few months, and all the time spent on my single engine license managed to suppress my soaring urge. I'm afraid that's been mostly undone now. :-)
Take that, inbox!
When I wrote the other day about The Hardest Thing I Have To Do Every Day, I was in the midst of a mad email purge and filing campaign. This is yet another attempt to change my ways.
The end result is quite pleasing.
But it'll take a serious adjustment of habits to keep things that neat and tidy.
So please don't send me any more email.
Thanks. :-)
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Teqlo - A Preview
UPDATE The crack Marketing Team (a.k.a. Rod) made a terrific teqlo variant of the The Machine is Us/ing Us video showing how Teqlo works. (see the original here, more interesting than the YouTube...
The innovation in gaming isn't on the screen
This evening with the kids, somewhere between the Wiimote and RC Simulator controller, or perhaps the DS stylus or Guitar Hero axe, I realized that all real innovation in the videogame industry these days seems to be in input devices....
Joost for Mac beta is out now
A few weeks back, the Venice Project aka Joost team had opened up an early alpha version of their peer to peer TV client for some of GigaOM/NewTeeVee users, and seeking their feedback on how to improve the software. Well, you all seem to have done a good job. The company has just announced the [...]
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