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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
People Power Vs Google
Om Malik writes:
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I am a tad confused by Om's last statement above. Is he "cheerfully confident" about the trend because the mainstreams have not been interested in bookmarking? Posted by Atanu Deytoday only i used wink.com (search engine). One interesting thing i found there was under "Search Results" tab, it shows 'Web Search Results By Google'. Is there no legal issue in using google for this kind of searches? does google allow other search engines to use their search engine? Wink is paying google for using their search engine? Just got curious... any clarifications regarding this??? -Sarang. Posted by Sarang
TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: Search, Memex and Mirror Worlds
Search is undoubtedly the big story of 2005. I wrote about ‘The Future of Search’ in March, linking it to my earlier ideas of the Memex. I ended with the following comment: “Some of the underlying ideas to execute the Memex may have changed, but the building blocks remain the same – blogs, RSS and OPML. What is different is how we assemble these elements together. There is little doubt in my mind that the Web is due for an upgrade – given the spurt in user-generated (“folk”) content and the rise of mobile phones. The Memex is what will emerge as Information Dashboards and Marketplaces become more popular. Thus, the future of Search lies in it enabling the creation of these new platforms to help us tackle a problem which has been with us for a long time – lot of information and limited time. Finally, we have the tools at hand to tackle the challenges. Smarter Search is just a beginning, and the Memex is the endgame. Information Dashboards and Marketplaces make up the middle.” In an August Tech Talk entitled ‘Internet Tea Leaves’, I wrote about the Memex and Mirror Worlds:
In this context, my discussion on Mirror Worlds as part of the Tech Talk on ‘Next-Generation Networks’ is worth repeating: “Over the past decade, we have been spending an increasing amount of our time in so-called cyberspace. Companies and individuals have created virtual representations of their products and services. Our communications have also moved to conversing with identities (email IDs, IM monickers, SMSing to mobile numbers) rather than directly with people. David Gelernter’s idea of Mirror Worlds takes this to its logical conclusion: we will have a parallel world that we will increasingly inhabit which is a copy of the real world. Today, maps can provide us the spatial copy. But they do not give us the real-time component. That is where a mix of next-generation mobiles, sensors and user-generated content will come in and embellish the other world. So, Mirror Worlds are microcosms of all that we see around us as updated as the real world that they resemble. These Mirror Worlds are accessible to us through screens on the devices we have our mobiles, computers, and perhaps, networked TVs… For the first time in human history, we have a device that is part of our body it travels with us everywhere. It is a two-day device in the sense that it has both eyes and ears, along with an output mechanism. We also have increasingly ubiquitous networks. What has been missing are the applications to leverage this emerging new order.” Tomorrow: SMEEMs, India and Entrepreneurs Related Entries: [All]TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: Emergic Ecosystem and Netcore [December 30, 2005] TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: Abhishek [December 29, 2005] TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: SMEEMs, India and Entrepreneurs [December 28, 2005] TECH TALK: The Best of Tech Talk 2005: Disruptions and Mobiles [December 26, 2005] TECH TALK: The Best of 2005: Moreover [December 23, 2005]
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Dear Mr. Jain,
I have been following your blog posts closely for a while now. This piece of news on various mobile phone-related stories is truly scintillating. A relevant development that I have been involved with is also mobile-phone-related. More specifically, it is with regard to a company that manufactures cell phone signal jamming devices (安特易). The basic idea is to install devices that introduce noise that "eats up" cell phone signals (生产截波器,隔离器,干扰仪). With the deployment of such devices, one would be unable to use the cell phone in concert halls, restaurants etc.
I consider this phone jamming device cool technology. However, I think that it might also be worth consideration whether such a device violates one's right to communicate. I would like to hear what you and your blog readers think of this issue. There is another related story on voting for China's "American Idol" via SMS, a technique much more advanced that voting via dialing in in the US. I should probabl post again in some other opportune time.
Posted by Rob Ya (手机干扰屏蔽)Sorry, in the previous comment, in the link to the company in discussion, I meant 安特易, not 安特易.
Thanks.
Posted by Rob Ya (手机干扰屏蔽)Why is this Chinese dude writing half his comments in Chinese ? No one can read it, not even the dude who's making this blog ! Anyway, my opinion of Chinese is that they are a bunch of self-serving egotistical a$$#0!@$ who don't give a *%#@ about us Indians and would sooner see us %$^@ !
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