The goal is to search more than one site: Ie on kurist25.com (not a real site) you can use this to search digg.com, slashdot.com & fark.com and monster.com, (now that you wasted all your time at work and lost your job) by using one search box and having Google style results. It solves the problem of needing to use the site: function on sites whose search is worthless, (foxnews.com).
This tool would have saved my time in College and grad school I used the same dozen or so sites for all my research (sorry library you loose) and wasted much time switching back and forth between their search results. Using this I can create my list and do one search and get my results. I can easily share and apparently rate them. Since many of my fellow students used the same sites the group functions would be useful and so would the labels. This will be a powerful tool for the right people especially in the education and research fields.
With the right setup it could be used to prevent search results that end the websense screen of oppression (by oppression I mean safety and healthy work environment). If I restrict the results to exclude those sites search results will be more useful.
Isn't there a statute of limitations? If you wait 10 years until a company has money before you mention said patent you are out of luck. If there isn't there should be. After all it's easier to stop something small.
Sony DRM? I kid...
Not text books in the new sense. You could waste a lot of money on text books that would be out of date in a few years.
I would go with the top 1000 text books used over the past 25 years. The classics that don't go 'out of date'.
Or
1000 top checked out library books over the past 25 years.
I'll wait until my Zune automatically recieves audio and video ads from stores I enter. Nothing like walking into a Walmart to have my Zune download an add on it's own which then starts to play through my headphones. I can't wait.
I'm guessing Google knows what they are doing. They could have some good legal argument, they could be hoping that the date of any lawsuit gets pushed way out like in the print.google case. It seems by the time a lawsuit occurs the companies will realize the need for print.google. The same could happen with youtube by the time a few years down the road anything legal occurs the companies have changed so much that the case is mote. They may think that their Google biceps are big enough to force change.
Seeing as TV is a starving industry,CBS anyone?, or Maybe a job at NBC
They may be forced to see an opportunity instead of fighting. After if they can make money by posting what someone else will no doubt post why not beat crime to the punch.
The obvious correlation is that smart people go to college and spend more time carrying around a stacks of text books and studying up a storm, while fat people play video games. One group is lifting the other getting fat... Ok I know that smart people play video games (after all I did) and that dumb people carry around kegs so this is a pointless example.
Things to happen before an ebook is of use. It needs to improve on the paper back. Right now it seems the ebook is just that an eversion of the paper, it does nothing more. The tape improved on the LP because of size, the CD improved quality and usability, the mp3 player improved on size, storage, usability over and beyond the CD. The ebook isn't a big improvement.
1) I need to highlight and take notes in the books. Too many famous notes were taken in side margins to eliminate the ability to take margin notes (Fermat's last theorem to name one). To add on to this I also want to be able to save my notes and share them over the internet a wiki of notes so when I go to read "the name of the rose" I can download a few sets of margin notes.
2) I need to be able to resell the book when I am done and buy used ones. Right now I can pick up a used paper back for a dollar or two and I can buy a new for $10 one and sell it to half priced books or on ebay when I'm done. It cuts down my costs, especially for college texts. Don't try to sell me the over all cost will be down. I buy most of my books at half priced books so until there is a half price ebook it won't work for me. I'll be able to buy over 50 books for the price of the reader alone and about 3 books per e book.
3) Make it fast and easy to use. I want to turn it on and read I don't want any load time or lag between pages. I often pick up a page and read (many books I read have small sections) so it is doable but if I have to wait 5-10 seconds for my book to load that will annoy me.
4) I need to import anything, gif, tiff, pdf, jpg, html, rss, doc, google docs, etc. (I understand the Sony can do some) I want variety after all I read magazines, journals, newspapers, hard backs, paper backs, guides, maps, all sorts of stuff the ebook needs to do it all before I get one. I want it to load my rss feeds in the morning so I can read those on it.
5) Be durable, be water resistant, shock resistant, drop resistant, TSA proof. If it gets ruined in the rain it's no better than a book and a whole lot more expensive. I'm going to drop it or keep it someplace it will get dirty make it able to stand daily ware and tare.
6) Read to me. If your electronic you might as well read out loud while your at it.
Right now I don't want one. I tested the rocket ebook back when it was new, I carried it to high school one day it was nice, not an easy read, to heavy but it took notes.
I attended 2 small private religious colleges in the Midwest. Internet was censored at both schools. At my first college they had it closed down pretty tight but you could recommend sites to be unblocked. When I got there discovery.com (discovery channel's website) and the local community college's website were blocked. We negotiated the over all loosening of the blockade but didn't get it removed. At second school things weren't much better at least they used web sense which didn't block useful sites (too many at least) but they did restrict the type of media and if when we complained the said it was a bandwidth issue and morality issue (Christian school I can accept that, maybe). On more than one occasion I used a dial up to gain accesses to blocked sites then one day the dialup numbers were blocked, that was to far.
As a general rule some sites need blocked for security reasons, block the crap that slows my computer if you are goign to block other things.
Minus the market share percents isn't this what we had with Microsoft and Mac back in the day. Professional (Microsoft) and educational (Mac). Dad bought the Professional choice cause he used it at work and said his kids would eventually to, plus Macs weren't good for games back then. Then of course Dell came along and crashed the Apple Computer monopoly in schools and the Professional choice was solidified.
Goffice is taken... I'm not sure Google wants another naming rights smack down like gmail got.
I have always suspected that goffice chose that name to try to get Google to buy them out or to be able to sue Google in the future.
I like and think g-docs work well. It begins to brand the type of document it is. G-docs will eventually be the Google format you will pass g-docs between Google programs effortlessly anywhere Google is g-docs can be opened and shared without emailing, exporting or importing. . It will eventual become a file extension.gdc a type of XML if you will like kzm or klm whatever Google Earth uses.
Google may be loosing ground in quality. There results are often redundant, wiki.com, about.com, 404 sites, you get a bunch of canned results regardless of your search (or maybe I just search for things only on about and wiki). They have a few concepts they are working on; their coop is going bumping up their results (especially with health topics) they have rumors of launching mashups which would clean their results. They seem to be looking at other ways to provide the same data. I can search for a health topic or I can coop a health topic. I would assume they will start a few other sites (they have http://www.searchmash.com/ going) but I expect to see others come up with a variety of uses.
The big upcoming challenge for search engines is to provide a smart list of sites, searches that produce safe sites to go to (no spy ware) sites with accurate information (not blogs and other junk which is all lies), I expect in the next few years the consumers will begin to demand this from the search engines once they get tired of the crap their computers catch on the net, they will want some filtering from the search companies.
Of course now I can have Google maps and calendar and other gadgets on lvie.com sites. That makes live.com more attractive. That is until MS blocks them.
TFA had the wrong link... http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/synd.html is right. Seems like a neat idea.
Aside from the Google icon and 'footnote.' which could detract from it being useful. I saw a use for these as a menu on a site or a nice customizable RSS display. This seems the best way yet to run/. And other feed headlines on my site. More than one a page might be annoying with the branding but time will tell.
It would be far more useful if you could inline and store data.
We lost a good friend in the map world! The street view was truly useful, I used it the other day to find a restaurant I would never have found otherwise. I was in DC and wasn't sure where it was so I looked it up got a picture of the façade and a few facades in the area put them on my phone and found the place. Right across the street from the mailbox where the photos said it would be. No other map service could do that (including maps.live.com). I'm interested in which competitor will pick up the ball where they left off. Their maps never hit the big time because they weren't wide spread enough and most people didn't know they existed.
To address the real subject. I'm not concrned if amazon new what I searched for (it got me pi/2% off). I choose to log in and let them track, if you don't like it don't log in.
I would buy one, not sure for $350, when I'm doing research this would be great. If publishers jump on board this would be great. If I could put the open books from print.google.com, works from CCEL.org, project Guttenberg and project Wittenberg, wikipedia , scholarly journals and the like I would buy. I could load everything I need to do my studies from the web easily onto this the cost would be worth it. I could load up all the websites, ebooks, journals, and such for the topic I was studying then take it on the road, of course I would want to be able to take notes in the margins, but this doesn't seem to be allowed so it isn't as useful.
There are a few things to consider...
I live in an apartment, does that mean I cannot buy on of these. I just don't see the Lord of my land allowing me to string an extension cord out my window and to whatever parking spot I'm in that day. That is also not to mention the power drop over an extension cord. Although seeing the neighbors annoying kid trip could be fun. Something would need to be done for us and those college types.
All new car techs are going to come with a site setup fee (hydrogen, dumb power lines in the road idea, cars which drive of the power of my self worth) something needs added for all of these. I think electric comes at the smallest set up price (no I haven't calculated anything), I can use some existing equipment, it's based on an established industry (Enron aside), it wouldn't rely on public funding; yes it would use some public funds (grants, tax abatements, etc) but it's not like redoing all the roads.
Power grids and houses will adapt to this. They adapted to personal technology. You cannot walk into an older house turn all your computer equipment on, your short wave radio and microwave dinner all at the same time. In a newer house you can do it all from one plug. I'm sure
When I read this I imagined something along the lines of a wallet card being carried around (or a purse card, or key card) if your black berry isn't within 15 feet of the card it would be in lock down mode. This means no code punching and time limits, just carry your card around and RFID takes care of the rest, leave your wallet at home and you wouldn't be able to get your fix or work. If your black berry gets stolen the thief must be within 15 feet of you in order for it to work. This could be partnered with the token cards wireless users work, each morning a few times a day you have to match codes to keep going. You BB could beep or rattle if you are going out of range, or frankly your wallet could or both. It's better than punching in a code each time you want to answer the phone.
This isn't new Microsoft pushes a bellow average product in a field full of competition, they make a few proprietary formats, which are better than the product itself, they use this to lift their product up while slowly making changes.
They also introduce a few niche concepts in their product after an initially slow start. They launch Soapbox with nothing in beta then in a few weeks put a bunch of more innovative ideas into it to show consumers they are still working on it. This is an affront to Google's beta purgatory, where a product with good ideas is launched and left alone for a long time with few signs of work. Microsoft holds back the updates to give the illusion of progress so 6 months after launch they are at a similar place as Google. It's a choice between start fast go slow and start slow go fast.
Most people cannot even take a poll in the office to see where to have the "Holiday Party," yet they think a state and national election should be easy. I have seen election fraud. It is an equal opportunity employer. So let's pretend that each party steals 100 votes per district you know what it's a wash in the end. Election fraud isn't a republican tactic only. Part of democracy is living with a bit of fraud, unlike an old school Iraq which was all fraud.
Had a guy I worked on a group book project (each member wrote a chapter) copy from 4 different sources to form his entire paper. He intermixed them but it was still obvious that he hadn't written any of it. Two things made this particularly amusing; he didn't fix formatting when he pasted into Word, his Greek characters came out garbled and fonts and paragraphs were spaced differently. Second, he plagiarized from one work which the professor had extensively written about in his PHD dissertation.
Isn't this what Google is doing with the Google Image Labeler. It seems the next step for this concept is to use it as a Captcha, if they can show that >75% Americans label a given picture the same then that would seem to be an acceptable level for Captcha success (seeing that a large number of folks cannot copy text from the screen correctly). They could force you to get 3 out of 4 picture labeled correctly to post.
A long while back a search company came out with a image search tool where you draw what you want to search for. Ie to search for images of airplanes you draw an airplane, it didn't work all that well but it was a good concept. If this were made to work well enough that most people could use it on a laptop mouse pad then this would seem successful. But if it's too good you won't get in, which would help prevent the image from being broken up and a script tracing it back to the screen.
A combination of the two would be even better. Label the picture then doodle the drawing or a
Or I could upload my student's homework and you could have a grading captcha. You have to read the question and correct the students answer... sure it's probably not the best solution but it makes my job easier.
Or we could charge 10 cents per captcha use like people won't to do with email. that way the captcha slaves will loose money.
I looked into buying one for my 1.7 miles commute. We can use them on the paved trail where I live so it would be safe and fuel efficient.
I saw 2 downsides; first was price it was to expensive (although a quick office poll showed I could make a few bucks selling test rides) and second was storage. I live in an apartment which means no garage and reduced ability to modify my area for parking/storage. I would have to bring the thing in every night to prevent theft and my wife doesn't want a Segway sitting next to the kitchen table (imagine that). I did not buy so I continue to polite and destroy my car.
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The goal is to search more than one site: Ie on kurist25.com (not a real site) you can use this to search digg.com, slashdot.com & fark.com and monster.com, (now that you wasted all your time at work and lost your job) by using one search box and having Google style results. It solves the problem of needing to use the site: function on sites whose search is worthless, (foxnews.com). This tool would have saved my time in College and grad school I used the same dozen or so sites for all my research (sorry library you loose) and wasted much time switching back and forth between their search results. Using this I can create my list and do one search and get my results. I can easily share and apparently rate them. Since many of my fellow students used the same sites the group functions would be useful and so would the labels. This will be a powerful tool for the right people especially in the education and research fields. With the right setup it could be used to prevent search results that end the websense screen of oppression (by oppression I mean safety and healthy work environment). If I restrict the results to exclude those sites search results will be more useful.
Isn't there a statute of limitations? If you wait 10 years until a company has money before you mention said patent you are out of luck. If there isn't there should be. After all it's easier to stop something small.
Sony DRM? I kid... Not text books in the new sense. You could waste a lot of money on text books that would be out of date in a few years. I would go with the top 1000 text books used over the past 25 years. The classics that don't go 'out of date'. Or 1000 top checked out library books over the past 25 years.
I'll wait until my Zune automatically recieves audio and video ads from stores I enter. Nothing like walking into a Walmart to have my Zune download an add on it's own which then starts to play through my headphones. I can't wait.
I'm guessing Google knows what they are doing. They could have some good legal argument, they could be hoping that the date of any lawsuit gets pushed way out like in the print.google case. It seems by the time a lawsuit occurs the companies will realize the need for print.google. The same could happen with youtube by the time a few years down the road anything legal occurs the companies have changed so much that the case is mote. They may think that their Google biceps are big enough to force change. Seeing as TV is a starving industry,CBS anyone?, or Maybe a job at NBC They may be forced to see an opportunity instead of fighting. After if they can make money by posting what someone else will no doubt post why not beat crime to the punch.
I'm guessing by doing stuff like this http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6127211.html?part= rss&tag=6127211&subj=news/ - Yahoo releases IE 7 before MS
The obvious correlation is that smart people go to college and spend more time carrying around a stacks of text books and studying up a storm, while fat people play video games. One group is lifting the other getting fat... Ok I know that smart people play video games (after all I did) and that dumb people carry around kegs so this is a pointless example.
Things to happen before an ebook is of use. It needs to improve on the paper back. Right now it seems the ebook is just that an eversion of the paper, it does nothing more. The tape improved on the LP because of size, the CD improved quality and usability, the mp3 player improved on size, storage, usability over and beyond the CD. The ebook isn't a big improvement. 1) I need to highlight and take notes in the books. Too many famous notes were taken in side margins to eliminate the ability to take margin notes (Fermat's last theorem to name one). To add on to this I also want to be able to save my notes and share them over the internet a wiki of notes so when I go to read "the name of the rose" I can download a few sets of margin notes. 2) I need to be able to resell the book when I am done and buy used ones. Right now I can pick up a used paper back for a dollar or two and I can buy a new for $10 one and sell it to half priced books or on ebay when I'm done. It cuts down my costs, especially for college texts. Don't try to sell me the over all cost will be down. I buy most of my books at half priced books so until there is a half price ebook it won't work for me. I'll be able to buy over 50 books for the price of the reader alone and about 3 books per e book. 3) Make it fast and easy to use. I want to turn it on and read I don't want any load time or lag between pages. I often pick up a page and read (many books I read have small sections) so it is doable but if I have to wait 5-10 seconds for my book to load that will annoy me. 4) I need to import anything, gif, tiff, pdf, jpg, html, rss, doc, google docs, etc. (I understand the Sony can do some) I want variety after all I read magazines, journals, newspapers, hard backs, paper backs, guides, maps, all sorts of stuff the ebook needs to do it all before I get one. I want it to load my rss feeds in the morning so I can read those on it. 5) Be durable, be water resistant, shock resistant, drop resistant, TSA proof. If it gets ruined in the rain it's no better than a book and a whole lot more expensive. I'm going to drop it or keep it someplace it will get dirty make it able to stand daily ware and tare. 6) Read to me. If your electronic you might as well read out loud while your at it. Right now I don't want one. I tested the rocket ebook back when it was new, I carried it to high school one day it was nice, not an easy read, to heavy but it took notes.
I attended 2 small private religious colleges in the Midwest. Internet was censored at both schools. At my first college they had it closed down pretty tight but you could recommend sites to be unblocked. When I got there discovery.com (discovery channel's website) and the local community college's website were blocked. We negotiated the over all loosening of the blockade but didn't get it removed. At second school things weren't much better at least they used web sense which didn't block useful sites (too many at least) but they did restrict the type of media and if when we complained the said it was a bandwidth issue and morality issue (Christian school I can accept that, maybe). On more than one occasion I used a dial up to gain accesses to blocked sites then one day the dialup numbers were blocked, that was to far. As a general rule some sites need blocked for security reasons, block the crap that slows my computer if you are goign to block other things.
Minus the market share percents isn't this what we had with Microsoft and Mac back in the day. Professional (Microsoft) and educational (Mac). Dad bought the Professional choice cause he used it at work and said his kids would eventually to, plus Macs weren't good for games back then. Then of course Dell came along and crashed the Apple Computer monopoly in schools and the Professional choice was solidified.
Goffice is taken... I'm not sure Google wants another naming rights smack down like gmail got. I have always suspected that goffice chose that name to try to get Google to buy them out or to be able to sue Google in the future. I like and think g-docs work well. It begins to brand the type of document it is. G-docs will eventually be the Google format you will pass g-docs between Google programs effortlessly anywhere Google is g-docs can be opened and shared without emailing, exporting or importing. . It will eventual become a file extension .gdc a type of XML if you will like kzm or klm whatever Google Earth uses.
Google may be loosing ground in quality. There results are often redundant, wiki.com, about.com, 404 sites, you get a bunch of canned results regardless of your search (or maybe I just search for things only on about and wiki). They have a few concepts they are working on; their coop is going bumping up their results (especially with health topics) they have rumors of launching mashups which would clean their results. They seem to be looking at other ways to provide the same data. I can search for a health topic or I can coop a health topic. I would assume they will start a few other sites (they have http://www.searchmash.com/ going) but I expect to see others come up with a variety of uses. The big upcoming challenge for search engines is to provide a smart list of sites, searches that produce safe sites to go to (no spy ware) sites with accurate information (not blogs and other junk which is all lies), I expect in the next few years the consumers will begin to demand this from the search engines once they get tired of the crap their computers catch on the net, they will want some filtering from the search companies.
Of course now I can have Google maps and calendar and other gadgets on lvie.com sites. That makes live.com more attractive. That is until MS blocks them.
TFA had the wrong link... http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/synd.html is right. Seems like a neat idea. Aside from the Google icon and 'footnote.' which could detract from it being useful. I saw a use for these as a menu on a site or a nice customizable RSS display. This seems the best way yet to run /. And other feed headlines on my site. More than one a page might be annoying with the branding but time will tell.
It would be far more useful if you could inline and store data.
We lost a good friend in the map world! The street view was truly useful, I used it the other day to find a restaurant I would never have found otherwise. I was in DC and wasn't sure where it was so I looked it up got a picture of the façade and a few facades in the area put them on my phone and found the place. Right across the street from the mailbox where the photos said it would be. No other map service could do that (including maps.live.com). I'm interested in which competitor will pick up the ball where they left off. Their maps never hit the big time because they weren't wide spread enough and most people didn't know they existed. To address the real subject. I'm not concrned if amazon new what I searched for (it got me pi/2% off). I choose to log in and let them track, if you don't like it don't log in.
I would buy one, not sure for $350, when I'm doing research this would be great. If publishers jump on board this would be great. If I could put the open books from print.google.com, works from CCEL.org, project Guttenberg and project Wittenberg, wikipedia , scholarly journals and the like I would buy. I could load everything I need to do my studies from the web easily onto this the cost would be worth it. I could load up all the websites, ebooks, journals, and such for the topic I was studying then take it on the road, of course I would want to be able to take notes in the margins, but this doesn't seem to be allowed so it isn't as useful.
There are a few things to consider... I live in an apartment, does that mean I cannot buy on of these. I just don't see the Lord of my land allowing me to string an extension cord out my window and to whatever parking spot I'm in that day. That is also not to mention the power drop over an extension cord. Although seeing the neighbors annoying kid trip could be fun. Something would need to be done for us and those college types. All new car techs are going to come with a site setup fee (hydrogen, dumb power lines in the road idea, cars which drive of the power of my self worth) something needs added for all of these. I think electric comes at the smallest set up price (no I haven't calculated anything), I can use some existing equipment, it's based on an established industry (Enron aside), it wouldn't rely on public funding; yes it would use some public funds (grants, tax abatements, etc) but it's not like redoing all the roads. Power grids and houses will adapt to this. They adapted to personal technology. You cannot walk into an older house turn all your computer equipment on, your short wave radio and microwave dinner all at the same time. In a newer house you can do it all from one plug. I'm sure
Surely they really mean we will be sitting around watching a movies with our two robot friends.
When I read this I imagined something along the lines of a wallet card being carried around (or a purse card, or key card) if your black berry isn't within 15 feet of the card it would be in lock down mode. This means no code punching and time limits, just carry your card around and RFID takes care of the rest, leave your wallet at home and you wouldn't be able to get your fix or work. If your black berry gets stolen the thief must be within 15 feet of you in order for it to work. This could be partnered with the token cards wireless users work, each morning a few times a day you have to match codes to keep going. You BB could beep or rattle if you are going out of range, or frankly your wallet could or both. It's better than punching in a code each time you want to answer the phone.
This isn't new Microsoft pushes a bellow average product in a field full of competition, they make a few proprietary formats, which are better than the product itself, they use this to lift their product up while slowly making changes. They also introduce a few niche concepts in their product after an initially slow start. They launch Soapbox with nothing in beta then in a few weeks put a bunch of more innovative ideas into it to show consumers they are still working on it. This is an affront to Google's beta purgatory, where a product with good ideas is launched and left alone for a long time with few signs of work. Microsoft holds back the updates to give the illusion of progress so 6 months after launch they are at a similar place as Google. It's a choice between start fast go slow and start slow go fast.
Most people cannot even take a poll in the office to see where to have the "Holiday Party," yet they think a state and national election should be easy. I have seen election fraud. It is an equal opportunity employer. So let's pretend that each party steals 100 votes per district you know what it's a wash in the end. Election fraud isn't a republican tactic only. Part of democracy is living with a bit of fraud, unlike an old school Iraq which was all fraud.
Had a guy I worked on a group book project (each member wrote a chapter) copy from 4 different sources to form his entire paper. He intermixed them but it was still obvious that he hadn't written any of it. Two things made this particularly amusing; he didn't fix formatting when he pasted into Word, his Greek characters came out garbled and fonts and paragraphs were spaced differently. Second, he plagiarized from one work which the professor had extensively written about in his PHD dissertation.
Isn't this what Google is doing with the Google Image Labeler. It seems the next step for this concept is to use it as a Captcha, if they can show that >75% Americans label a given picture the same then that would seem to be an acceptable level for Captcha success (seeing that a large number of folks cannot copy text from the screen correctly). They could force you to get 3 out of 4 picture labeled correctly to post. A long while back a search company came out with a image search tool where you draw what you want to search for. Ie to search for images of airplanes you draw an airplane, it didn't work all that well but it was a good concept. If this were made to work well enough that most people could use it on a laptop mouse pad then this would seem successful. But if it's too good you won't get in, which would help prevent the image from being broken up and a script tracing it back to the screen. A combination of the two would be even better. Label the picture then doodle the drawing or a Or I could upload my student's homework and you could have a grading captcha. You have to read the question and correct the students answer... sure it's probably not the best solution but it makes my job easier. Or we could charge 10 cents per captcha use like people won't to do with email. that way the captcha slaves will loose money.
I looked into buying one for my 1.7 miles commute. We can use them on the paved trail where I live so it would be safe and fuel efficient. I saw 2 downsides; first was price it was to expensive (although a quick office poll showed I could make a few bucks selling test rides) and second was storage. I live in an apartment which means no garage and reduced ability to modify my area for parking/storage. I would have to bring the thing in every night to prevent theft and my wife doesn't want a Segway sitting next to the kitchen table (imagine that). I did not buy so I continue to polite and destroy my car.
Yes but can this set fire to the internet community and out fox IE??? that my friend is the question,