Within the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly addicted to the question and answer site Quora. The breadth of topics about which the site’s users inquire is matched only by the depth and quality of the answers Quora users typically provide. It’s fun and intellectually stimulating to participate in discussions on topics of both an [...]
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1 Comment »We’ve known for a while that Google is busy scanning and digitizing millions of books from throughout human history. They’ve even enlisted idle human brainpower to decipher unknown words with a high degree of certainty. But until recently, Google hasn’t had much to show for its efforts other than the Google Books website and a [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: books, Google, Google Books, Google Labs, Ngram Viewer, reCAPTCHA 2 Comments »There’s a war brewing. Not involving tanks and planes, but rather a fight for online users. The participants include Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The winners will dictate the future of how we communicate with each other, store and access data, and generally live our increasingly online lives. It’s extremely interesting to watch the lines being drawn [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, Social Networking, Websites Tags: Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0 Summit 1 Comment »For any Google watchers out there, Eric Schmidt did a great interview at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday covering a wide gamut of topics. Besides an “unofficial” preview of the Google Nexus S smartphone, he offers intriguing insights into mobile commerce and payment systems, the mass adoption of Google’s Android OS as a viable and open platform [...]
