Google lets you 'look inside the book'

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Google Lets Your Upload Your Own Videos

Google Lets Your Upload Your Own Videos 04/17/2005 01:26 AM
PC World Online Apr 17 2005 5:59AM GMT

Google lets bl0gging via mobile

Google lets bl0gging via mobile 05/11/2004 05:14 AM
Cyber India Online May 11 2004 9:17AM GMT

Google lets site owners 'host search'

Google lets site owners 'host search' 06/24/2004 03:00 AM
Mad.co.uk Jun 24 2004 7:14AM GMT

'Look and Shoot' Helmets

'Look and Shoot' Helmets 06/15/2004 08:33 AM

Bat eyelashes, destroy enemy fighter -- at least if you're wearing of the 2,000 new Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) helmets from Boeing just ordered up by the Pentagon. By simply lining up a yellow targeting cross and pressing a button, pilots can aim weapons and sensors onto whatever they happen to be looking at, in the air or on the ground. In addition, the JHMCS display all sorts of other useful information, like altitude, airspeed, G's (upper and lower case), angle of attack, and Kenny Loggins playlists. Don't miss Defense Tech's hard-hitting editor Noah Shachtman use news of the technology as an excuse to talk about his girlfriend's couch.
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Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids

Probe to 'Look Inside' Asteroids 07/29/2004 01:20 AM

Inside Google News

Inside Google News 06/05/2005 11:34 PM

I just heard an excellent presentation by Krishna Bharat of Google News. He explained how Google News works. It basically crawls news sites, finds "story clusters", ranks the sources, figures out how prominently each source is running the story, figures out whether its a big story or a little story, figures out geographic references, and builds the pages for the various geographic and language editions. He was talking to an audience of editors so there were many questions about how the "editing" process worked and many people couldn't seem to believe it was algorithmic. Some people seemed afraid that Google News would replace them. The point that he made and was clear from the process that he explained is that it uses the decisions that the editors of the various media make about what story to run and where in deciding how important a story was. It was basically aggregating the decisions of the editors, not replacing them. Without the editors and the "fr ont page process" Google News couldn't decide what story to lead with. At least in its current form.

The derivative conclusion you can come to is that Google News is just amplifying or reinforcing systemic biases in MSM editorial and NOT helping to address these issues. I think this make Google News very news media friendly and also provides an opportunity for bloggers and projects like Global Voices to still have a very important role. I guess that if Google New started incorporating more of the alternative press, they could shift the bias.

During the discussion, Dan Gillmor pressed Krishna for more transparency on the algorithm and the list of sources and I seconded the motion.

Some good notes of the sessions on the editors blog.

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Microsoft: We'll offer $50 player with
iPod 'look and feel'

Microsoft: We'll offer $50 player with
iPod 'look and feel' 05/27/2004 10:38 AM
At the Goldman Sachs fifth annual Internet Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft said it will begin selling portable music players for as much as 80 percent less than Apple's iPod...

Inside the Google Hiring Process

Inside the Google Hiring Process 01/03/2005 02:43 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Jan 3 2005 6:23PM GMT

Inside the Google search machine

Inside the Google search machine 06/08/2004 05:59 AM
Google staffer Matt Cutts provides an insight into how the service manages millions of daily search requests.

What's the inside scoop on Google
Sitemaps?

What's the inside scoop on Google
Sitemaps? 06/17/2005 03:51 PM
Dave, I just read about Google having some sort of sitemap feature that lets you ensure that their spider sees all of your pages. I kinda wonder whether this is a good thing or not. What have you been hearing about it?… Direct and Related Links for 'What’s the inside scoop on Google Sitemaps?'

Google and Search Inside the Book

Google and Search Inside the Book 10/30/2003 10:22 AM
You probably know by now that Amazon has released the first of its A9 search offerings: Search Inside the Book. (If you don't, basically when you search on Amazon it searches the full text of thousands of books, and points you not only to the book, but to scanned copies of all the pages that match your search.) So what should Google do? This is a perfect time to cut a deal with Amazon: Amazon lets them index the text of all these books, and in return, Google sends tons of customers to Amazon's door. Putting the books in the search results wouldn't be any different than the search results already provided by Amazon, so there wouldn't be any copyright or lost-sales problems. Despite the amazingness of the Web, there's still some stuff you can find only in books. Google wouldn't be living up to their mission (to organize all the world's information) if they passed up this amazing opportunity....

Microsoft: We'll offer $50 player with
iPod 'look and feel' [Updated]

Microsoft: We'll offer $50 player with
iPod 'look and feel' [Updated] 05/28/2004 07:50 PM
MacMinute May 29 2004 0:13AM GMT

BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the
Google search machine

BBC NEWS | Technology | Inside the
Google search machine 06/09/2004 10:29 PM
BBC NEWS Inside the Google search machine .. bbc

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Zeta 'stalker kept signed book'

Zeta 'stalker kept signed book' 09/10/2004 02:03 AM
A woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones owned a book signed by the actress, a court hears.

Create a vertical 'digital book' for
laptops

Create a vertical 'digital book' for
laptops 06/24/2004 11:26 AM
This may seem obvious but I've just realised how to do this today: Download a text file of a novel from the Gutenberg Project or somewhere else slightly more up to date and open it in TextEdit. Save the file as a PDF through ...

Computer replaces beloved 'big book'

Computer replaces beloved 'big book' 04/25/2004 08:33 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 25 2004 12:15PM GMT

'Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book'
released

'Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book'
released 12/14/2003 12:07 AM
Adobe Press has announced the release of "Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book."...

Inside Google Documents offer
fascinating insight into the search
engine

Inside Google Documents offer
fascinating insight into the search
engine 04/30/2004 01:34 PM
BBC Apr 30 2004 4:39PM GMT

Md. High-Tech 'Black Book' Open to
Public

Md. High-Tech 'Black Book' Open to
Public 02/19/2004 01:22 AM
AP via The Ledger Feb 19 2004 5:40AM GMT

Paraglyph publishes 'Little Black Book'
for Panther

Paraglyph publishes 'Little Black Book'
for Panther 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Paraglyph Press, which distributes its titles through fellow tech book publisher O'Reilly, recently announced the publication of Mac expert Gene Steinberg's "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Little Black Book." The latest edition of his "Little Black Book" details the more than 100 new features found in Panther and offers tips and tricks for getting the most out of the OS. It's aimed at both those who are upgrading to Mac OS X with Panther as well as seasoned users who want to learn about everything the new OS has to offer.

'Black book' a window into high-tech
prostitution

'Black book' a window into high-tech
prostitution 02/19/2004 01:22 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Feb 19 2004 5:34AM GMT

Spot 'Picture Book' Client
Hewlett-Packard Agency

Spot 'Picture Book' Client
Hewlett-Packard Agency 01/03/2005 03:05 AM
Adweek Online Jan 3 2005 6:23AM GMT

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com)

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com) 09/03/2004 10:25 AM
USATODAY.com - Yesterday I stood inside what is probably the world's third-most-powerful supercomputer - the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech. (I say "probably" because the testing won't be done till next week - the Department of Defense is using it right now and can't be interrupted.) It's composed of 1100 Macintosh G5 computers running in parallel.

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004 09/25/2004 09:10 AM

Inside the Ring - The Washington Times:
Inside the Ring

Inside the Ring - The Washington Times:
Inside the Ring 12/27/2003 06:38 AM
The Pentagon's "Big Impact" Weapons of Mass Deception Plan 8/1 .. Spy satellite launched during China's trip into space >>>> .. Chinese military intelligence-gathering satellite .. Iraq weapons strategy .. Washington Times

washtimes.com/national/inring.htm
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FCC lets one go by.

FCC lets one go by. 02/01/2005 09:59 PM
FCC Denies PTC's complaints. (Salon article, get daypass or bugmenot) The FCC succinctly denied (pdf) the 36 count complaint from dismayed Parents Television Council. We've talked about previous decisions here and here - could this be a light at the end of the tunnel?

Lets Raise the Bar!

Lets Raise the Bar! 12/30/2003 01:23 AM
In contemplating recently the threats we face on the network and our desire to implement and secure our networks, I quickly realize that we have a long way to go. We as security professionals and internet users seem to want...

B&Q lets hackers do it themselves

B&Q lets hackers do it themselves 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
ZDNet UK Nov 14 2003 12:52PM ET

Apple Lets Cat out of the Bag

Apple Lets Cat out of the Bag 06/29/2004 05:45 AM
Apple's Steve Jobs wows programmers with a preview of the next major release of OS X, code-named Tiger. Leander Kahney reports from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

LETS-Talk

LETS-Talk 10/31/2003 01:52 PM
V1.0 RC1 Released

Law lets paedophiles slip through Net

Law lets paedophiles slip through Net 05/22/2004 09:23 PM
Scotland on Sunday Online May 23 2004 1:18AM GMT

Web-enabled LETS System

Web-enabled LETS System 08/11/2004 03:26 PM
Install errors on 1.2

Verizon lets some keep DSL as
stand-alone

Verizon lets some keep DSL as
stand-alone 05/28/2004 12:27 AM
Boston Globe May 28 2004 4:24AM GMT

EU lets Microsoft off of the Hook?

EU lets Microsoft off of the Hook? 07/01/2004 01:58 AM
Microsoft is “temporarily” off the hook with the European Union Commission according to BetaNews.com reporter, David Worthington. The freeze on Microsoft’s remedies ties in with their appeal still in the works. Microsoft spokesperson Jim Desler was quoted as saying; “We believe that suspension is in order and is necessary as the remedies will not only hurt Microsoft, they will hurt many other software development companies and web site developers who have built products for the Windows platform. Most importantly, they will also harm consumers by limiting choice and degrading the usability of personal computers”. Hmm, limiting choice indeed.

Microsoft lets the Sun shine in

Microsoft lets the Sun shine in 04/29/2004 01:39 PM
Perhaps the final remnants of the dot-com era died when Sun and Microsoft reached a $1.95 billion settlement, ending years of verbal sparring and legal maneuvering. Microsoft has agreed to pay Sun to resolve antitrust and patent issues and the companies will pay royalties to use each other's technology.

Microsoft lets its guard down (a bit)

Microsoft lets its guard down (a bit) 09/19/2004 09:20 PM

B&Q Web site lets hackers do it
themselves

B&Q Web site lets hackers do it
themselves 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
ZDNet UK Nov 14 2003 1:22PM ET

TiVoToGo lets you take shows with you

TiVoToGo lets you take shows with you 01/03/2005 12:31 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 3 2005 3:12PM GMT

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not 12/22/2003 12:38 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 22 2003 12:14PM ET
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