Cuil’s arrival on the search engine scene is has been a modest one, (Techcrunch defined their modesty as ’stealth mode’). It’s a brave step to venture into a world that giants like Microsoft haven’t yet been able to become category leaders in, and under scrutiny which seems to expect them to be as good or [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Will Carocean.co.uk Sink or Swim?
July 31, 2008 – 8:25 am
Now I love my cars, I really do. It’s like a curse, I really can’t help it. Spending an early Saturday morning trailing the classifieds on Pistonheads.com is a sad and lonely pass time (with one eye on the penny jar) which I enjoy. So when I heard that a new ‘Car [...]
Micro-blogging: When Does A Trickle Become A Flood?
July 30, 2008 – 6:48 pm
One of the ways in which Web 2.0 can be characterised is by sites which deal with “presence”, i.e. short form communication, which is constrained to bite-sized chunks of information.
Twitter is a contemporary web phenomenon which illustrates the phenomenon very well. Calling itself a “communication utility” Twitter recently announced it has raised US$20.4m of funding. [...]
Wordle, Tag Clouds just got sexier
July 30, 2008 – 4:35 pm
Tag Clouds have been one of the defining visual styles of ‘web 2.0′ - you can see our tag cloud on the right hand side there. In essence a tag cloud monitors every word you publish [in this case, tags] and displays them randomly with size and weight based on frequency of word. In our [...]
Searching Rich Media
July 29, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Google has been indexing Flash since 2004 but the underlying technology that powers millions of front pages and zillions of banner ads has defied the kind of interrogation that makes it truly searchable, until very recently. At the beginning of July, Adobe released what it calls Searchable SWF technology but although this is a step [...]
