Tuesday, August 15, 2006

the cool hunter - GOOGLE VISION - POINT AND AIM

the cool hunter - GOOGLE VISION - POINT AND AIM: "GOOGLE VISION - POINT AND AIM



Get lost? Do you? Well, yet another bright young designer from the U.K is developing a system that will have tag and name exactly what your staring at. Google Vision is a conceptual product developed by Callum Peden, for the worlds favorite search engine. The product provides the user with a truly unique information hub by combining GPS, OLED technology and advanced image recognition in the form of a retractable screen device.

The Global Positioning System will see the end of wondering the streets asking for directions and the small roller ball will allow for easy navigation of the flexible screen. Brilliant for identifying landmarks whilst on holidays, Google vision acts as a personal; tour guide.

As well as this, advanced image recognition will mean Google Vision can target well known landmarks. Then using the increased coverage of wireless internet, provide the user with information on their surroundings wherever they may be. "

Friday, June 09, 2006

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight Home | Hollywood and the hackers

Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman locks horns with Electronic Frontier Foundation's John Perry Barlow over big media's war with the internet.

(wow)JPB: I've got good news and bad news and good news. And the good news is that you guys have managed to buy every major legislative body on the planet, and the courts are even with you. So you've done a great job there and you should congratulate yourself.But you know the problem is - the bad news is that you're up against a dedicated foe that is younger and smarter that you are and will be alive when you're dead. You're 55 years old and these kids are 17 and they're just smarter than you. So you're gonna lose that one.But the good news is that you guys are mean sons of bitches and you've been figuring out ways of ripping off audiences and artists for centuries..... Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/pro...

House rejects Net neutrality rules | CNET News.com

The slaves among us.

Read more at news.com.com/2100-1028_...

Friday, June 02, 2006

YARR! Swedish police site broadsided after Pirate Bay raid

Time to wake up. I think people in sweden still have some self respect.

Read more at arstechnica.com/news.ar...

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Chemophobia or how what you know can be dangerous to you.

More contributions to the paranoid society. Pretty soon the govt will realize that everything is dangerous in one way or other and everything will be banned. Humans will be grown, live and die inside insulated bubbles so they can be protected from themselves.What a shame.

Read more at wired.com/wired/archive...

Sunday, March 05, 2006

connections

Better visualization of google suggest:
  1. a branching tree with query and suggested terms as children
  2. a tree map
  3. a color coded tree map

delicious tags + google suggest items scaled to popularity will give you an idea of how your tag relates to other querys

tag cloud + suggest popularity ( overlay )

historical.

historical dynamic ( shows evolution )

Monday, November 28, 2005

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Publishers sue Google - good better and ugly?

Publishers sue Google over book search project | Tech News on ZDNet

Enough has been/is being/will be said about this. The publishers and their minions would be thankfully forgotten just like the person who handed Plato the hemlock, or burnt Galelios book etc..

Good: Good of zdnet to carry this story.
Better: Providing Talkback feature on the story page, so that people can add to the cacophony.
Ugly??: Talkback
Do they(zdnet) really want your opinion (talkback?). What has my job category or subscribing to the spam mailing-list got to do with my opinions on Leeches vs Google??
Practice what you preach, mofos.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

The Right to Read

I just stumbled across this, which starts as a sience fiction -
only that its happening right now and hell, its not even fiction anymore.

The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Also now its:
The Right to Hear and See: see DRM, IPOD-ITunes, P2P, RIAA etc..

Why write this:
Other than to scream when pressed, I see it as replication and propogation of good, and maybe someone will be inspired to see the difference between buying music and buying cd/media
or the difference between buying words and thoughts and buying books and paper.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Google browser.

Sun and Google:

Google browser is a device to use connect to and browse the internet.
It has a light weight screen and midrange cpu running linux and other free opensource software. Actually its just a large touch screen.
Sun provides the hardware and Google the software, what would turn out to be the first web operating system.

Update: well its finally out and its all in there. Looks like its all coming true.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1969

Thursday, September 29, 2005

MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop - go further.

MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop
MIT has come up with this concept and I think this is great. However what they( read someone, I??) need to do is to create an under $100 web browser, or just rename this.
The concept of a notebook, laptop etc.. stinks of technological old age and by definition has all kind of BS already associated with it.
However there seems to be a good thing in all this: Google is part of the deal. I guess its slowly dawning on google ( not quite there yet ) that all computing resources are going server side and all you need is a web browser. I don't understand why google has not yet come up with its own <$100 browser device, but this is not too far. In fact this is going to be the reality.
There's another great thing that is going to come out of this, -- we will not need Microsoft and windows OS anymore. Finally the OS tyranny will come to an end because everyone is going to realize that they do not and never needed a $1000 computer and $300 OS to get internet ( I believe 99% of home computers are solely used to access the internet ).
So why these guys dont still get it?? -- because they are still using labels and names from 90s. Just having the name wrong means the difference between a garbage pile of 'research' and high minded altruism and, a real thing available to everyone and making money.
There are few people who are close to getting it like Nokia ( internet tablet ), Opera - they already have a browser, and the ability to put it on all kind of devices, except that they never thought to have the browser itself as a device.
I guess I'll have to do it myself.
Here's the plan:
low end cpu+small data cache+cheap display+Linux+Firefox

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Weather map - Google Weather Map

I was looking forward to this one too..
Weather map - Google Weather Map

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Google Maps API

Its finally here. Markup your earth now!!
Google Maps API

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Google Earth - Sightseeing

Google Earth - Sightseeing
I just downloaded this and its too much of a mind explosion.
Closer to being all seeing.