Web 3.0 still not here, Web 2.0 remains king

ByCarlos Granier 2007/11/192007/11/16

According to this Google Trends chart, the expected arrival of Web3.0 is still far in the distance. It’s still a Web2.0 world. But sit tight… it’ll be here soon enough.

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Refocusing a photograph after taking it and other seemingly magical technologies

ByCarlos Granier 2007/10/252007/10/25

Arthur C. Clarke once said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Entire religions have been built around apparently magical events. In this PodTech video interview, Robert Scoble converses with Professor Marc Levoy of Stanford University about ongoing computational photography research that will simply blow your mind. It’s almost an hour long (and…

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An Interesting Look at US Sports

ByCarlos Granier 2007/11/302007/11/28

It’s interesting that searches for Football peak during the beginning of the season and are way down by the time the Super Bowl rolls around. The same happens for Baseball.

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Hamburger wolfs down Hot-dog

ByCarlos Granier 2007/11/172007/11/16

It’s a hamburger world, it seems. Except for every Fourth of July, when Nathan’s Hot-dog Eating Contest rolls around. Check out the Google Trends chart:

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Let me show you how French Coffee makes your brain happier (and other statistical lies)

ByCarlos Granier 2011/08/152011/08/15

Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) In a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek analysis, Sebastian Wernicke turns the tools of statistical analysis on TEDTalks, to come up with a metric for creating “the optimum TEDTalk” based on user ratings. How do you rate it? “Jaw-dropping”? “Unconvincing”? Or just plain “Funny”? [download tedPad here] Share it with your…

Lookout MySpace, here comes Facebook

ByCarlos Granier 2007/11/15

This is the first article of a series I’ll call GoogleTrending, where I use Google Trends to compare search terms and come to usually preposterous conclusions based on the trend charts. I hope you enjoy it. Share your favorite trend comparisons -or suggest ideas for new posts- using the comments form below. MySpace seems to…

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Google TV is coming (and we told you so)

ByCarlos Granier 2010/03/182010/03/18

In April, 2006, I wrote: “Google is also making inroads into the set-top box business, hoping to bring ~~television~~ media straight into your television (whether itâ€™s in your living room or your mobile phone).” Today, Google is finally announcing Google TV.

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