Tagging
Just a random thought in a break from revision, provoked probably by spending too much time enjoying surfing the Flickr website for brilliant (and fun) photos... I've wondered for a while why I've not...
View ArticleIntroducing umlauts
When reading an article about Google Earth in Technology Review last month, I came across a new word: co-ordinates. Obviously being a geographer, that word is not actually a new one to me, but rather a...
View ArticleGmail logging chat... remotely
I recently gained access to some new features in Gmail that I didn't have available to me before - because I was British. Now that I claim to American, I can access new features in Gmail such as...
View ArticleThe future of image search
Whilst looking through a list of Google's acquisitions this evening, I spotted a really interesting company in the list: Neven Vision. It's a name I hadn't heard of before (I missed the aquisition...
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The thousandth link
I posted my thousandth link today to the social bookmarking service del.icio.us.The link itself was Sky & Telescope Interactive Sky Chart which I spotted in Chris Heathcote's links. It caught my...
View ArticleExpress ticketing that isn't
Sitting on a National Express coach from Heathrow to Gatwick, I'm pondering the failures of system design of some so-called express ticketing systems, namely the one National Express has rolled out to...
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Help Google do their job better
I'm in my last week here in Germany, and very much looking forward to moving back to London to live and work, but unfortunately there are all sorts of things that need to be arranged before I move....
View ArticleHow well does Google.im perform?
Watching a video today about Google's localisation of their search results (part of "A peek into our search factory"), I spotted the Manx flag and thought I'd give Google's Isle of Man localised search...
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An interesting use of Amazon Inside data
Amazon has quietly introduced an innovative use of their book data - the complete text of many of the books they sell through their website - showing the frequency of the top 100 words inside the book....
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