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- Prince Fielder’s legend just continues to grow
- Intel makes a mish mash of the Internet
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- Nelson rabbits on about Rudd
- Corporate inertia prevents mass collaboration
- Evolution finds a home for recognition technology
Search Wikia takes a step closer to the promise of ’search meets…
Industry Standard – The Industry Standard – Apr 22, 2008
But now it’s getting closer. I got a chance to play with some of the upcoming changes coming to Search Wikia. Those hoping for a more Wikipedia-style approach to search results will not be disappointed. You can test some of these features out for yourself at.
Prince Fielder’s legend just continues to grow
SportingNews.com – Apr 22, 2008
RIDICULUS!The legend of Prince Fielder grows and grows. Even when nothing happens it grows. In late March a Wikipedia bio of Fielder told of a 543-foot homer he had hit in high school off of a pitcher named Aaron Cook. Two weeks later the same Wikipedia page said the homer had traveled 587 feet (and still credited Cook as the pitcher). f course Fielder did not hit a 587-foot home run in high school. f course he did not hit a 543-foot home run in high school. But he did hit a home run of unknown but substantial distance off Cook… Even when nothing happens it grows. In late March a Wikipedia bio of Fielder told of a 543-foot homer he had hit in high school off of a pitcher named Aaron Cook. Two weeks later the same Wikipedia page said the homer had traveled 587 feet (and still credited Cook as the pitcher). f course Fielder did not hit a 587-foot home run in high school. f course he did not hit a 543-foot home run in high school. But he did hit a home run of unknown but substantial distance off Cook. And Cook was no schlub.
Intel makes a mish mash of the Internet
Inquirer – Apr 22, 2008
The example given by Intel is that on a travel website a mashup would beable to tell a user how much leg room they?d get on a certain flight (not muchif you?re traveling scum class) and show a map of the destination (useful ifyou find your destination to be terminal five in Heathrow). The new tool is also based on open application programming so nerdy userscan even write up their own widgets and bung them up on various Web sites. Top boffin at Intel Research Berkeley Robert Ennals who is the creator ofIntel?s mash gushed ?It is like turning the whole Web into Wikipedia”. µInqblot: The last time Intel claimed it was improving theInternet was when it entered into an unequal struggle to convince world+dog thatthe Pentium III would speed up the Web by judicious use of Non-Rational UniformB-Splines or NURBS. This claim was of course what boffins often refer to as’complete bollocks’.
Administrative assistants help out their bosses quietly | Chron.com -…
Houston Chronicle – Apr 22, 2008
html Wikipedia takes the pluck out of Administrative Professionals Day — celebrated today in the U. (and Canada!) — calling it simply “an unofficial secular holiday. ” We think it deserves more pomp so here are some of our favorites from TV and film who orchestrate and entertain excel and endure. Pam BeeslyMy 88 words per minute top Pam Beesly’s 85.
Nelson rabbits on about Rudd
The Age – Apr 22, 2008
“What kind of fraud is Mr Rudd pretending to be when hesuddenly turns around the day after his 2020 talkfest and says heis now a convert of root-and-branch reform of the Australian taxsystem?” he said. The cartoon Crusader Rabbit according to Wikipedia. comscreened on US television in the 1950s and 1960s. riginallyscreening as cinema shorts Crusader Rabbit was the first USanimated series produced especially for television. Dr Nelson said any tax reforms changes should ensure peopleultimately paid less tax. “It is very important that Mr Rudd guarantee Australians therewill be no increase in the GST that there will be no increase incapital gains tax” he said. He also hit out at claims by Mr Rudd that the former Howardgovernment did not reform the tax system.
Corporate inertia prevents mass collaboration
InfoWorld – Apr 22, 2008
But for other organizations what are the common roadblocks they encounter or create for themselves that prevent them from embarking on similar initiatives? The big one is that we fear what we don’t know and understand. For any senior executive to decide to move forward on this personal use is a precondition. So unless a senior executive decided to edit a Wikipedia page or has spent time on Facebook with their kid or has tagged a photo on Flickr they have no idea why this new Web is different than the Web of the dot-com era. People still think the Internet is about Web sites and stickiness and clicks and page views. But that was the old Internet of 12 years ago. We banned the term “Web sites” [within New Paradigm]; now we have communities. The other thing is that many people mistakenly believe this is about social networking and hooking up online or creating a gardening community or putting a video on YouTube.
Evolution finds a home for recognition technology
Register – Apr 22, 2008
The technology is impressive. You take a photograph of an item and send it off to Evolution’s servers which identify it and send back a suitable URL. That URL might link to a Wikipedia entry about the building or statue or an Amazon page from which you can buy the book or toy truck. The firm gives the example of a CD cover and the technology works impressively well – the company has posted.
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