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The Love Machine
Last week Prabhakar and I presented some of Yahoo’s past and future strategies to a bunch of Benchmark Capital portfolio companies at their recent shindig in Half Moon Bay. Prabhakar presented his compelling vision for Yahoo Research (which I’ve seen umpteen times before but excites me anew each time.) He also touted some excellent recent hires (including an […]
Zoom into the Room
Hot on the heels of ZoneTag, we’re releasing another spiffy mobile prototype - a “mobile friend finder” we’re calling CheckMates.
In addition to some very cool features (an incredibly intuitive mobile interface, leveraging Flickr for both the social network and a place to park my geopresence, etc.) I love the support for “private maps”. This allows […]
Capture v. Derive
Universal Law: It is easier, cheaper and more accurate to capture metadata upstream, than to reverse engineer it downstream.
Back at Virage, we worked on the problem of indexing rich media - deriving metadata from video. We would apply all kinds of fancy (and fuzzy) technology like speech recognition, automatic scene change detection, face recognition, etc. to commercial broadcast […]
Lowering Barriers to Participation
In a previous post, I mentioned our efforts around lowering barriers to entry for participation, i.e. empowering consumers with tools that transform them into creators. Tagging is perhaps the simplest and most direct example of how lowering a barrier to entry can drive and spur participation.
Tagging works, in part, because it’s so simple. Rather than […]