Me v. Ze Frank (not so much…)
Gordon Luk has a really interesting post that I’ll use as a launching pad to clarify a point I often make in public lectures… In the interest of saving you a click, see below.
This reminded me of Umair’s article “Why Yahoo Didn’t Build MySpace…” which basically suggests that the pyramid of participation I […]
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 […]