Sunday, May 29, 2005
BITTORRENT SEARCH| Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol. |Wired|
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TAXONOMIES AND TAGS| Now autumn has come to the forest of knowledge, thanks to the digital revolution. The leaves are falling and the trees are looking bare. We are discovering that traditional knowledge hierarchies that have served us so well are unnecessarily restricted when it comes to organizing information in the digital world. The principles of organization themselves are changing now that they are being freed from the constraints of the physical world. |InfoDesign|
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
YOUR NEXT COMPUTER| As our phones get smarter, smaller and faster and enable users to connect at high speeds to the Internet, an obvious question arises: is the mobile handset turning into the next computer? In one sense, it already has. Today's most sophisticated phones have the processing power of a mid-1990s PC while consuming 100 times less electricity. And more and more of today's phones have computerlike features, allowing their owners to send e-mail, browse the Web and even take photos; 84 million phones with digital cameras were shipped last year. Tweak the question, though, to ask whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, or replace, the PC, and the issue suddenly becomes controversial. PC proponents say phones are too small and connect too sluggishly to the Internet to become effective at tasks now performed on the luxuriously large screens and keyboards of today's computers. Fans of the phone respond: just wait. Coming innovations will solve the limitations of the phone. "One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are all not going to have PCs," says Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot and the chief technology officer of PalmOne. "The mobile phone will become their digital life." |Newsweek|
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
PERSONAL FIREWALLS|People will soon need a 'digital bubble' to protect them from unwanted electronic information, according to BT futurologist Ian Pearson. Pearson, speaking in London at a briefing on the future of fashion and technology, said that as more and more marketing departments take advantage of wireless technology to beam information at potential consumers walking past, people will need to protect themselves from the onslaught of digital data."[In the future] there will be chips all over the high street relaying information and you will be bombarded with digital information everywhere you go," said Pearson. "You will need a digital bubble force field - a shield that lets through what you want and blocks everything else."
The digital bubble will act as both an electronic force field and a personal firewall, according to Pearson. |MocoNews|
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
ONTOLOGY IS OVERRATED| Clay Shirky: "Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies...What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -- the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging -- free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints -- seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets." |Shirky.com|
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Saturday, May 14, 2005
THE INFLECTION POINT| According to Robert X. Cringely, Microsoft is now in competition with its customers (xbox), Google will turn every user into a thin client (Web Accelerator), and Apple aims to remake the music and movie industries (Airport Express WiFi Repeater). |Metafilter|
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
RESHAPING THE MOBILE SEARCH WORLD| It appears that Medio search is the centerpiece of a new paradigm of user experience on mobile, incorporating not only a new universal presentation layer but also business analytics and advertising serving to come, enabled through the complete Medio ecosystem. This could well be one of the defining releases in mobile content and advertising which brings mobile internet into the global mainstream and out from its confines of Japan and Korea. |MocoNews|
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
GOOGLE BUYS DODGEBALL| As of May 11th Google and Dodgeball have joined forces. |Dodgeball|
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W3C MOBILE WEB INITIATIVE| World Wide Web technologies have become the key enablers for access to the Internet through desktop and notebook computing platforms. Web technologies have the potential to play the same role for Internet access from mobile devices. However, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use for most mobile phone subscribers. W3C’s "Mobile Web Initiative" (W3C MWI) proposes to address these issues through a concerted effort of key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.|Infodesign|
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THE END OF TEXT| William Crossman, a futurist and an English instructor at Vista Community College in Berkeley, believes that reading and writing are doomed. He cites statistics that show that IQ scores worldwide are getting higher as literacy rates are plummeting. |SmartMobs|
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ESCARGOT? OUI. GOOGLE? SACRE BLEU | When U.S.-based Google announced plans in December to undertake the cost of digitizing the world's books and making them searchable to the public for free, France called foul, with the country's top librarian complaining loudly of yet another example of "crushing American domination." |Wired|
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Monday, May 09, 2005
BOOTSTRAPPING THE SOCIAL WEB| Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into "microcontent" units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we're looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways. |Infodesign|
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
GOOGLE SEARCHES FOR QUALITY NOT QUANTITY| has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms. The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. At the moment the company's search engine throws up thousands of "hits" in response to simple entries such as "Iraq", which lead to news websites. These are ranked either in order of relevance or by date, so that the most recent or most focused appear at the top of the huge list. |New Scientist|
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AJAX| Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what's possible on the Web. |Infodesign|
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