The morning session was once again solid with a couple of real standouts. While many categories were touched upon, the over-riding theme of simplifying the users life was reinforced, as was the concept the there are many new opportunities in Search. My favorites this morning included:
The two standouts in my view from the morning session are:
- Yahoo! Photos With over two billion photos, this service is already the Internet's largest repository of people's pictures and you may know the existing site. But you ain't seen nothing yet. The new version, not yet into end user beta has incorporated Ajax technology to allow a very elegant system of dragging and dropping photos as well as making it very easy to manually tag them and then find your stuff by conducting tag searches. You can also use Yahoo's new Smart albums to pull in photos in from your friends photo collections.
- Kosmix is yet another search engine at Demo and there are a great many search technologies being shown. What we like about this Mountain View based company is that it seems unafraid of implying that it is superior to Google. It accomplishes this by sophisticated attempts to integrate context into the search, so that if you are researching prostate cancer, you'll get articles on how broccoli in your diet may prevent it from occurring.Of course, if if the marketplace does confirm Kosmix to be a superior search engine, the smart money in the room is betting that Google just buys them.
- Panaratio Database Images of San Francisco claimed to bring supercomputing capabilities to a laptop, a bold claim, backed credibly by their presentation. They ran a few massively complex relational database apps that worked like a charm. The company says it reduced the footprints of large databases by orders of magnitude. Sandwiched in between demonstrators with cute are. A hosting company. You can add images or even podcasts. Can buy from RSS feeds.
The morning session was once again solid with a couple of real standouts. While many categories were touched upon, the over-riding theme of simplifying the users life was reinforced, as was the concept the there are many new opportunities in Search. My favorites this morning included:
The two standouts in my view from the morning session are:
- Yahoo! Photos With over two billion photos, this service is already the Internet's largest repository of people's pictures and you may know the existing site. But you ain't seen nothing yet. The new version, not yet into end user beta has incorporated Ajax technology to allow a very elegant system of dragging and dropping photos as well as making it very easy to manually tag them and then find your stuff by conducting tag searches. You can also use Yahoo's new Smart albums to pull in photos in from your friends photo collections.
- Kosmix is yet another search engine at Demo and there are a great many search technologies being shown. What we like about this Mountain View based company is that it seems unafraid of implying that it is superior to Google. It accomplishes this by sophisticated attempts to integrate context into the search, so that if you are researching prostate cancer, you'll get articles on how broccoli in your diet may prevent it from occurring.Of course, if if the marketplace does confirm Kosmix to be a superior search engine, the smart money in the room is betting that Google just buys them.
- Panaratio Database Images of San Francisco claimed to bring supercomputing capabilities to a laptop, a bold claim, backed credibly by their presentation. They ran a few massively complex relational database apps that worked like a charm. The company says it reduced the footprints of large databases by orders of magnitude. Sandwiched in between demonstrators with cute things for consumers with cell phones, we have a hunch that this company will not get a DemoGod Award tonight. But t will change what we can do with mobile computers over time in significant ways.
- LocaModa , of Somerville, Ma introduced two promising related products called StreetSurfer and Wiffiti. Steve Randall, co-founder and CEO (a co-founder f Symbia as well), said his new company is address the issue of the "web outside." Street Messenger runs "wireless graffitti," or Wiffiti that lets people see location-based user generated blogged messages on a wide screen which is essential to how LocaModa stuff works. I loved the technology on this first e, but was more impressed with the commercial value I saw in Street Surfer 3.0. Randall showed how you could go to the window of a closed real estate office and with your cell phone to request additional info from a standard real estate ad. Your phone actually works as a remote control.The results show up on a large screen. You can also use it to see similar houses or make an appointment with the broker.
Recent Comments