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Bilconference: The numbers…

biz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:59:19 +0000

1.8 billion people have access to the internet. 58% of them use it daily. 11.5 billion web pages 66.2 billion web queries/month Bilconference: The numbers… is a post from: From Here To Singularity

Bilconference: The numbers… is a post from: From Here To Singularity

Look! Up in the sky! It’s Virtual Earth! (video)

biz — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:17:39 +0000

Following on from yesterday’s post (well, not really) is this TED video demonstrating the latest in virtual real reality processing. Something tells me that this isn’t going to be as good as the real thing. But, I sure if we wait a decade or so… Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, [...]

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Online forums can yield quality advice, research finds.

biz — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:15:40 +0000

In my professional and personal life I have found great use for online forums. They are of immense value to geographically scattered but like-minded individuals focused on a specific area of human expertise. What we have, is a cognitive artefact that facilitates peer advising via the electronic medium. That’s a rather fancy way of saying [...]

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PsyBlog | Frown and the Net Frowns With You, But Smile and You Smile Alone

biz — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:24:42 +0000

Interesting research on how we interpret online language and communication. PsyBlog | Psychology Blog: Frown and the Net Frowns With You, But Smile and You Smile Alone according to a study which assessed the effects of smileys and frownies as I’m now calling them. Walther and D’Addario (2001) found that while smileys had no effect [...]

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Recycling intelligence. Well, pilfering it from humans, really.

biz — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:12:16 +0000

Still, despite the improvement of pattern matching I refer to in that last post, there are some things that humans will be doing better than machines for a while yet. We use this to determine whether a web visitor is a human, or a machine. . And systems have been built to farm out tasks [...]

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flickrvision

biz — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:56:59 +0000

Check out this mashup of the flickr.com and google maps api’s: a real time presentation of images as they are uploaded by users to the flickr photo sharing site. flickrvision beta flickrvision is a post from: From Here To Singularity

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