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Month: June 2007

  • Photosynth Presentation at TED

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    Thanks to Mateo for sending me this great presentation of the PhotoSynth work emerging from Microsoft’s Live Labs. What’s interesting to me about this is that way back when I read David Siegel’s excellent Futurize your Enterprise (from 1999) he discusses many of these kinds of applications made possible by fully described semantic data. This…

  • Face the Search

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    Google have started integrating a behind the scenes feature that allows you to do an image search for faces. It’s pretty darn cool – first check out a normal search for the wonderful ‘Douglas Adams‘, now check out the same search for his face. Of course this is now raising a lot of discussion about…