December 12, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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Human Brain Cloud: Massively Multiplayer Word Association Game
Interesting site. I think there is a lot of potential in games like this and the ESP game. For example, could you build a better search engine? Could you build a better semantic web? How about better understanding relationships between tags? You may be able to use this as a better kind of captcha - you take the top 1% of pairings (like “mona” -> “lisa”) and ask the person to fill in the blank.
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December 4, 2007 at 4:03 pm
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The Future Of E-Books - Forbes.com
Andy Greenberg with something less than stellar to say about the Kindle. His closing paragraph:
“Until then, we’ll have to settle for Kindle’s minor revolution in information display, gray though it may be. And for those looking for something a bit more colorful, try picking up that marvel of display technology whose resolution and readability has yet to be surpassed: a glossy magazine.”
The big innovation here is the “bookstore in your hand”. A “glossy magazine” is nice, but can it recommend me related magazines? Can it replace itself with next month’s issue? Of course not.
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December 1, 2007 at 2:40 pm
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Just wanted to comment on the blog silence of late. It’s not that I’ve given up on this blog, it’s just that there hasn’t been anything interesting in the tech news of late. Lots of facebook/privacy noise, but all of that should have been obvious the second you heard about Beacon. Purchase data is the most valuable kind of data, and storing it on another site without permission (even if it’s not published anywhere) is the kind of thing that can get you in trouble. Duh.
Well, OK, that’s not entirely true. There is a ton I’d love to talk about, but I’ve decided to avoid anything that is related to what I do at work. One general thing I’ve been thinking about lately - what kinds of innovations and UIs are working really well in one area that haven’t made it yet to another? For example, All Software Should Be Social. Can grocery shopping be social? What about reading?
In the meantime, you can subscribe to my linkblog or follow it on Twitter.
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