3. Zagat is focused on a narrower market than Yelp.
not only that... zagat editors provide the service of compiling and sorting all the consumer reviews into tidy lists printed in a book. yelp is just a big mass of opinions per location with a few limited sort options to wade through the mess.
It's great to see a big corporation not being completely profit driven and screwing people over... wish they still had free student prime membership tho.
The video is of an interview with BBC. They show a clip from the youtube video, but in the interview he explains more about his 'condition', and how he copes with it. He mentions that he donates money earned from his drawings for missing person charity.
Some of the drawings shown are amazing, but I'd imagine the ones they didn't show are equivalent to the doodles most people make in boring classes/meetings.
It looks like Google is heading towards creating ubiquitous computing experiences. They're not limiting to PCs but rather coming out with new products that people can take anywhere (mobile devices) to get any kind of information (personal, social, web, images, etc). I don't think it's just about Google wanting to dominate hardware manufacturing. Motorola has some important patents for data transfer, and for Google to continue their information retrieval in a new space, they need to be able to transfer information to users smoothly.
Imagine you're out at lunch with friends and mention something you recently saw (i.e. on tv or youtube). You'd probably want to show it on your phone with your friends right then and there, right? Google is probably trying to position themselves in the market to offer the information you need at your fingertips
banking on the current "mood" means he's actually inflating the dangerous cycles of emotionally driven, short-term investment decisions rather than making any kind of long-term decisions.
emotions might help make pretty good (and quick) decisions in the short term, but it's true, aiming for long term cannot depend on emotion. it has to be based on solid, concrete data. for example, i could choose to eat pepperoni pizza for dinner based on emotional responses to the smell. however if i had a goal of becoming vegetarian, i should not be choosing to to eat pepperoni even if it smells good.
even if twitter feeds seem like real data, sentiment analysis is aggregating emotions of a crowd. Justin Bieber might be a 'hot trend' now but you cannot assume his popularity will remain for generations to come. Many fans like him for qualities that cannot be preserved for long (i.e. young face, young voice). Choosing stocks based on hard data is like admiring a singer for inherent qualities, like talent.
Agreed that FB is a social vehicle, it's used by extroverts of both genders. They tend to enjoy social attention more than introverts. Maybe G+ would be better suited for those who are less extroverted and wants to post things without turning them into social chatter, which FB seems to be pretty good at.
beg pardon - i meant to say that installing linux onto a flash drive is a bit challenging for some people. and then there's the matter of making sure the machine will boot from flash drive.
if only it were a 2 step process!
hm. great idea, but doesn't look easy for the non-technical folk to get it up and running. imo, they're the ones that really need this type of product when they travel to hotels and whatnot.
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G+ is a special case
How many G+ accounts can a person have?
This means you can actually have a discussion, rather than just a load of one-off comments.
that's true.. sometimes knowing who you're talking to makes the discussion more meaningful
3. Zagat is focused on a narrower market than Yelp.
not only that... zagat editors provide the service of compiling and sorting all the consumer reviews into tidy lists printed in a book. yelp is just a big mass of opinions per location with a few limited sort options to wade through the mess.
for some reason athletic shoes have a focus on form rather than function.
I vote for shoe laces cuz I gotta look good when I work out... cuz I work out to stay looking good...
It's great to see a big corporation not being completely profit driven and screwing people over... wish they still had free student prime membership tho.
interesting to see that this gender disparity applies to astronomy just like it does in computer science.
The video is of an interview with BBC. They show a clip from the youtube video, but in the interview he explains more about his 'condition', and how he copes with it. He mentions that he donates money earned from his drawings for missing person charity.
Some of the drawings shown are amazing, but I'd imagine the ones they didn't show are equivalent to the doodles most people make in boring classes/meetings.
It looks like Google is heading towards creating ubiquitous computing experiences. They're not limiting to PCs but rather coming out with new products that people can take anywhere (mobile devices) to get any kind of information (personal, social, web, images, etc). I don't think it's just about Google wanting to dominate hardware manufacturing. Motorola has some important patents for data transfer, and for Google to continue their information retrieval in a new space, they need to be able to transfer information to users smoothly. Imagine you're out at lunch with friends and mention something you recently saw (i.e. on tv or youtube). You'd probably want to show it on your phone with your friends right then and there, right? Google is probably trying to position themselves in the market to offer the information you need at your fingertips
google street view bloopers are pretty funny :)
banking on the current "mood" means he's actually inflating the dangerous cycles of emotionally driven, short-term investment decisions rather than making any kind of long-term decisions.
emotions might help make pretty good (and quick) decisions in the short term, but it's true, aiming for long term cannot depend on emotion. it has to be based on solid, concrete data. for example, i could choose to eat pepperoni pizza for dinner based on emotional responses to the smell. however if i had a goal of becoming vegetarian, i should not be choosing to to eat pepperoni even if it smells good.
even if twitter feeds seem like real data, sentiment analysis is aggregating emotions of a crowd. Justin Bieber might be a 'hot trend' now but you cannot assume his popularity will remain for generations to come. Many fans like him for qualities that cannot be preserved for long (i.e. young face, young voice). Choosing stocks based on hard data is like admiring a singer for inherent qualities, like talent.
you could post a fake birthday :)
apparently, another finding was that the cells grow fairly quick on spider silk....
Agreed that FB is a social vehicle, it's used by extroverts of both genders. They tend to enjoy social attention more than introverts. Maybe G+ would be better suited for those who are less extroverted and wants to post things without turning them into social chatter, which FB seems to be pretty good at.
beg pardon - i meant to say that installing linux onto a flash drive is a bit challenging for some people. and then there's the matter of making sure the machine will boot from flash drive. if only it were a 2 step process!
when looking at the futures, always remember: People like to communicate. People like to share
If those are present in your predictions, you will generally be close. Close enough to be considered 'right' in hindsight.
very true. humans are social creatures.
hm. great idea, but doesn't look easy for the non-technical folk to get it up and running. imo, they're the ones that really need this type of product when they travel to hotels and whatnot.