While the dustup over Bing’s possible appropriation of Google’s long-tail search results is presently occupying the attention of the world of search, I thought I’d take a step back and offer a longer-term historical perspective about an aspect of search that fascinates me: namely the evolution of search algorithms to adopt ever greater amounts of…
I’m happy to announce that Sling Media has shipped their first product, the Slingbox Personal Broadcaster, and that Walt Mossberg’s review of the Slingbox appears in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. I’ve posted about Sling briefly in the past, here and here, and have been actively involved with the company as a board member since Mobius…
Dave Sifry of Technorati has done a great three-part (1, 2, 3) series of posts on the size and shape of the blogosphere where he provides some fun charts and graphs on the development of the world of weblogs over the past several months since he last posted on this topic after his presentation at…
Yahoo is celebrating its tenth anniversary, which led me to reflect on the fact that a decade is a very long time in Silicon Valley, particularly when viewed through the lens of Moore’s Law. As Ray Kurzweil and others have observed, when humans contemplate exponential progress, we tend to overestimate what can be accomplished in…
Today Technorati launched a very cool new feature, Technorati Tags. Inspired by the communal categorization features of flikr and del.icio.us, Technorati now indexes tags embedded in blog posts (you get this for free when you choose to categorize your blog post on most popular publishing tools), and now they are first-class entities within Technorati that…
This was my first CES, and it was quite an experience. It also seemed like it was Las Vegas’ first CES given the mass confusion that existed at the airport, the monorail, and all around the conference center. I thought Vegas was supposed to know how to handle conventions! Ah well, I’ll give them the…
I’m a couple days late in posting this, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate the team over at Technorati for two recent milestones. First, Technorati is going international, in partnership with Digital Garage, who will be launching a fully localized version in Japan. For more info on this, check out David Sifry’s and…
This is a few days old and many folks have already made reference to it, but Google Suggest is very cool feature that bears mentioning. But, even cooler, is Google’s announcement of their ambitious plan to digitize the collections of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library. Among these…