The emergence of semantic search technologies holds a great deal of promise…
One of the biggest benefits anticipated by the wide adoption of a semantic based approach to content discovery is the ability to ask a basic question to a “search engine” and get back a specific answer.
Not a list of sites, but an […]
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Just The Facts? Maybe Not…
Published April 15th, 2008 in Emerging Technology, Internet, Search and Semantics. 0 Comments
BluRay: The Fight Still Ahead…
Published February 25th, 2008 in Digital Media and Emerging Technology. 2 CommentsIt’s finally official…
Toshiba announced last week that it’s throwing in the towel on HD-DVD. It will cease making players or promoting the standard, effectively ceding the high-definition media format war to it’s rival BluRay.
This didn’t really come as a surprise to anyone that was paying attention…
Things just started to pile up against the format. […]
Money Tech 2008…
Published February 7th, 2008 in Current Events, Emerging Technology and Internet. 0 CommentsI had the opportunity to speak yesterday at Money Tech 2008…
The conference, hosted by O’Reily Media right here in New York, was focused on the convergence of Web 2.0 and Wall Street.
I took the opportunity to talk abstractly about the process of information discovery, and how it has changed since the arrival of […]
Get ready to dump those funky 3-D glasses…
Phillips Electronics has been working on a technology that will deliver a pseudo 3-D image using a special flat panel display - no colored specs required. Called ‘WoWvx’, this technology ties together unique display optics, a video meta-data stream that adds depth information to traditional 2-D images […]
Imagine The Possibilities…
Published September 11th, 2007 in Emerging Technology and Technology & Society. 0 CommentsI was sent a link to this video and wanted to share it…
While conducting an unrelated experiment, American inventor, John Kanzius, discovered that salt water, when excited by radio waves, becomes combustible. The chemistry of the experiment apparently results in a release of hydrogen from the salt water, which then burns:
The next step to understanding […]
A Viable HD Web Experience…
Published August 30th, 2007 in Digital Media, Emerging Technology, Trends and Web Video. 2 CommentsAkamai powers the visual web…
They are the leading provider of edge based content caching for the efficient distribution of high bandwidth media. To make this work, Akamai have built a content distribution network with ‘edge servers’ that live at the data centers of most major ISPs.
Clients of Akamai leverage these servers to efficiently […]
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