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Google Amps Up Its Search With ‘Caffeine’

June 9th, 2010

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Google has unveiled a new search method called “Caffeine,” which it claims is faster at indexing new information.

If you search Google on Tuesday, you may notice that the information you’re looking for is a bit “fresher” than it would have been on Monday.

That’s because the world’s most popular search engine has unveiled a new search method called “Caffeine,” which claims to index new information 50 percent faster than Google’s old search. Read more »

The Social Media Revolution

May 7th, 2010

This video is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

The use of social media as a marketing tool has become prominent in the modern business world because it is an extremely effective way to promote products and services to a targeted audience. While standard websites serve as a one-way monologue, social media opens up dynamic dialogue with customers: creating interaction and personal connection. Read more »

Technology Changing How We Work, Play, Shop

February 5th, 2010

Virtual saleswoman Technology Changing How We Work, Play, ShopVirtual saleswoman and other technology changing how we work, play, shop

Our avatars are coming. Those mobile and 3-D and interactive technologies being created around us are about to beam us into a new world, filled with workday holograms, avatars and stuff we called magic only a few years ago. Read more »

Six Wonderful Things About Games

December 28th, 2009

Games are a wonderful medium. Like music, literature, film and theatre, games do a great deal to help make life worth living. In Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde said, “All art is quite useless.” He said this to illustrate that yes, art has little to no practical value. That does not mean that art is of no benefit to anyone of course! For me, the same argument can be applied to games, as their entertainment value is enough to justify their existence.

Critics of games however are full of concerns about violence, addiction and distractions from what the establishment regards as “more meaningful” pursuits. These being reading, watching films or punching someone in the face in a bar… Read more »

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage

October 8th, 2009

A group of students in China produced the image montage software, and had the following to say about it:

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Read more »

Steve Ballmer – Three Screens and the Cloud

September 27th, 2009

Steve Ballmer discusses some of Microsoft’s new technologies and the future of computing: cloud computing and revolutionary user-interfaces to support content on multiple devices. Read more »