Archive for December, 2006
Wikiasari - Social Search Engine
According to a report on Information Week, Wikipedia founders plan to build a commercial search engine (Wikiasari) combining algorithmic technology with human power. Combining the Open source search engine Nutch with human input they plan improve relevancy and compete against Google and Yahoo!. The detail of how this would work is still unclear
Wales doesn’t know […]
Google Moon and Mars
Nasa and Google have signed a formal agreement to collaborate on a number of project which is hoped to bring Nasa’s space data to the masses. They hope to create real time footage of space walks as well as a Google earth like mapping functionality for the Moon and other planets.
The New York times
YouTube rival proposed by Media giants – Just don’t get it
According to The Wall Street Journal last Saturday, some of the biggest organisations in the media including News Corp, Fox, Viacom Incm, CBS Corp and NBC Universal are planning a video rival to YouTube.
They plan to develop an online video platform for publishing ‘their’ network content, and cash in on the popularity of their material […]
Google AdSense funding terrorist
According to Jim Hedger from Webmaster radio, Google’s social network Orkut and the adsense network is being used by several organisations to fund terrorism. At the search engine strategies conference in Chicargo, Jim held a press conference to make his findings public.
He claims to have evidence which is currently being investigated by Google, which […]
Watch your carbon footprint from Second Life
Tony Walsh asks the question is Second Life ecologically sustainable? A quick sum on the back of a fag packet by Nicholas Carr, suggest avatars consumes just a little less electricity than the world average for a person and as much as the average Brazilian. That’s right, the ammount of energy used by […]
Public to contribute eyewitness photos to Yahoo! news
Yahoo! partner with Reuters inviting the general public to contribute pictures and videos of important news events taken on their mobile phones and digital cameras. The news distribution system called ‘You Witness‘ will enable citizen journalist to contribute news media to feature alongside Yahoo! news articles. Reuters will edit and distribute the photos for use […]
