Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 8, 2011
Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 8, 2011
Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security. more »
Tags: opensource, project, filesystem, software
Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 7, 2011
in order to keep those new years resolutions leading research would suggest the following;
1) Try to keep your blood glucose levels consistent; eat small meals several times a day vs. eating large meals only a few times a day
2) Stay positive; think about times when you... more »
Tags: vohs, baumeister, blogpost, 2007, selfcontrol, willpower
Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 5, 2011
The company that controls the best versions of these non-traditional search technologies will control the future of the web and guess what? No single company has taken this position or appears to even be moving towards it yet. Wait a minute you say, what about Google? Aren’t they the king of... more »
Tags: scalice, search, blogpost, google, 2010, tineye, foursquare, netflix, hunch
Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 5, 2011
The Future of the Search Engine - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
Can you imagine an Internet without Google search? Oren Etzoni, a Washington University computer scientist, can. Or, at least he pictures a very different kind of search. "We could soon view today’s keyword searching with the same nostalgia and amusement reserved for bygone technologies such... more »
Tags: lohr, etzioni, theatlantic, article, 2011, dyson, shazam, soundhound, scalice
Meryn Stol bookmarked a site on Delicious Aug 5, 2011
A Call to Rethink Internet Search - NYTimes.com
One threat to progress, Mr. Etzioni writes, is the keyword search box, an innovation-retarding trap that “exerts a powerful gravitational pull.”
That observation echoes one heard for years in another field of computer research — user-interface experts who have long bemoaned the... more »
Tags: etzioni, search, bitsblog, lohr, textmining, google, mobile, blogpost, 2011, ai
