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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 it’s in your living room or your mobile phone).” Today, Google is finally announcing Google TV.
Lookout MySpace, here comes Facebook
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…
Refocusing a photograph after taking it and other seemingly magical technologies
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…
An Interesting Look at US Sports
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.
Let me show you how French Coffee makes your brain happier (and other statistical lies)
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…
In Google Trends, Rock beats Paper
Today’s Trend chart shows that in the Googleverse, Rock beats Paper beats Scissors. Try that as an excuse next time your 5-yr old nephew beats you at RPS.