BBC Post
I must admit I’ve got a bit of “poster’s remorse” regarding the BBC blurb here.
I’ve got some lame excuses about why I didn’t do a better job with this, which I’ll spare you (ok, I can’t resist… Two r/t flights to Europe and back in the course of 9 days was part of the […]
Why the famous get famouser…
Kottke points to a great article by Columbia’s Duncan Watts…
The social context of content has everything to do with it’s meaning. It’s one of the reasons that I think that a purely pixel-based algorithmic approach to, say, image recognition is doomed. In optimistic moments, I’ve said that the computer vision community may produce […]
Cool Flickr Geotagging Examples
Stewart recently showed me some very cool (and in some cases surprising) Flickr geotagging examples. Here’s a few I loved.
Where is the neighborhood in Manhattan known as Tribeca?
Get your kicks, on Route 66
Food tour of Asia
What I love about the “tribeca” and “route 66″ examples is that they show emergent knowledge in the system. […]
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 […]