Microsoft’s new search engine “BING” certainly looks interesting.
BING is a lightweight semantic search service integrating the technology Microsoft got when they acquired PowerSet with their current LIVE search platform. It seems to be trying to address the key frustration people have with traditional web search tools - namely the lack of structure [...]
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Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster, talked at length about the state of the music industry at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsDigital D7 conference yesterday.
As the head of the largest concert ticketing company in the US, his views are clearly skewed to live music being at the center of the music industry’s future fortunes. [...]
This is a follow up to my previous post looking at the challenges most publishers face going digital.
Two weeks ago, Amazon launched a new larger version of the Kindle called the Kindle DX. It is essentially a functional equivalent of the existing Kindle 2, but with a larger 9.7″ diagonal screen to better accommodate [...]
Here is a new ad Google produced to start promoting their Chrome browser:
This is a great stop-motion production, and it reminded me of some of the more creative ads tech firms put out during the go-go days of the early internet.
This particular ad was produced by Google’s office in Japan, and is part of [...]
The widespread adoption of RSS - Really Simple Syndication - was a turning point for accessing information on the web. Instead of constantly visiting key sites throughout the day to keep up with information, people could simply subscribe to everything being published on those sites, and then use whatever software they wanted to to [...]
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