Seriously, NASA can do this...AMAZING!
Monday, August 6, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
A nation of fake people on Facebook
My address book gets messy but this is a massive pile of spam, duplicates and facade profiles for teens hiding from the folks.
Sure, there is probably a program to sift through them but there is some sad set of eyes out there with the job of perusing the wasteland.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Google Fiber: Thank You, Kansas City
Doubly excited for my hometown! Google Fiber "arrives" July 26.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Introducing the Leap
Now this is cool. Leap is a control interface for laptops and desktops. With the wave of your hand you can move a map, skip a song or change file directories. Add a pencil to the mix and now you have a stylus with which you can draw or even sign your name. If you have heard of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox, this is essentially the same thing except far more sensitive and geared for all-purpose computing instead of just gaming.
Chrome is king.
Google's Chrome browser has just become the most used browser, unseating IE from its long time on the throne.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Facebook gone public. Good and bad or just bad?
As you probably know, because its has been on every news outlet ad nauseam (including my little corner, hah), Facebook has gone public today at 11AM EST. In a valuation worth over $100 billion dollars, this is a big day that should help define what social networking is really worth.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Google Search shows Bing the ropes. Introducing Knowledge Graph.
Google is pushing its definition of search once again. A while back we saw them make search personal. Now, Google is making their search knowledgeable with Google Knowledge Graph.
Official Google Blog Post for Knowledge Graph
When you use Google Search (now or as the rollout is completed) you will notice a few different things based on your query. First off, Google will try to apply context to your search. For example, if you search for John Hancock it will give you the option to narrow down to the building in Chicago, the financial company or the revolutionary.
Search now understands context in addition to the string of search terms you provide. It will know that searching "Tabby" should not only bring back pages that mention tabbies but it will also understand that a tabby is a breed of housecat and can provide related information before you dive into a search result.
To me, it seems Google is not only trying to make search better and more relational. They are also trying to do what Microsoft Bing has done with search, only better and on a broader scale. Bing focuses on what they think their users search for most. Bing is pretty good at surfacing related information when searching about things like restaurants, concerts and travel. Google, however, maps relationships with as much information as it can. The Knowledge Graph has cataloged over 500 million things from people to places. All those things have 3.5 billion attributes that Google can use to make sense of searches queries.
For the most part this seems like a good and natural evolution of search. There will be a lot of griping from the SEO people out there but such is the price of taking advantage of a system that needs to continually improve to stay relevant. Look for the Knowlege Graph results on the the right hand side of you search results next time you look up another useless fact to prove your point in a fruitless argument. You might just get to add that "Did you know" sentence that all your friends just love about you.
Official Google Blog Post for Knowledge Graph
When you use Google Search (now or as the rollout is completed) you will notice a few different things based on your query. First off, Google will try to apply context to your search. For example, if you search for John Hancock it will give you the option to narrow down to the building in Chicago, the financial company or the revolutionary.
Search now understands context in addition to the string of search terms you provide. It will know that searching "Tabby" should not only bring back pages that mention tabbies but it will also understand that a tabby is a breed of housecat and can provide related information before you dive into a search result.
To me, it seems Google is not only trying to make search better and more relational. They are also trying to do what Microsoft Bing has done with search, only better and on a broader scale. Bing focuses on what they think their users search for most. Bing is pretty good at surfacing related information when searching about things like restaurants, concerts and travel. Google, however, maps relationships with as much information as it can. The Knowledge Graph has cataloged over 500 million things from people to places. All those things have 3.5 billion attributes that Google can use to make sense of searches queries.
For the most part this seems like a good and natural evolution of search. There will be a lot of griping from the SEO people out there but such is the price of taking advantage of a system that needs to continually improve to stay relevant. Look for the Knowlege Graph results on the the right hand side of you search results next time you look up another useless fact to prove your point in a fruitless argument. You might just get to add that "Did you know" sentence that all your friends just love about you.
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