tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16992393547128856762011-11-27T18:31:48.928-06:00Suggested new innovations in technology to simplify life. Mainly looking at Web 2.0 type applications, but also devices linking the real world to the web.krazy17http://www.blogger.com/profile/08759856707035682269noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699239354712885676.post-7448526708083906232009-04-23T14:07:00.003-06:002009-04-23T14:14:25.631-06:00

You may have heard of the new Google Profiles. I tried it out the other day by creating a profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/karljlarsen. My LinkedIn page went from being 7th in the search results for my name, up to 1st. Strange how that works.

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I have been thinking lately of wanting a hands off voice activated computing device that could answer / do simple tasks...the times when you don't feel like pulling out your computer or smart phone and googling something. Simple answers like the weather, a sports score, define a word, aren't always worth looking up unless you are already online. The concept is somewhat similar to the Verizon

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I discovered Microsoft Photosynth this past week. If you have not tried out the demo, you really should. Basically the program takes a bunch of pictures of the same place and finds the similarities between them to construct a 3D space. You can zoom in on individual pictures or fly around the 3D environment. I was very impressed. In the Virtual Earth blog they had an entry about CSI using the

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I am sick of reviews being spread all over the web. Some websites have started to aggregate reviews from all over, but this is just the beginning. It must be more than this. One example is Google offering reviews when you do a search on Google Maps for businesses. They have reviews from Yahoo!, Yelp and etc. These reviews are mostly for restaurants and bars, but other businesses have some

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I have been following Mike Dobson of TeleMapics Exploring Local blog as he has been delving into User Generated Content. His latest installment UGC, Map Updating and Market Segmentation gives a good lie of the land as far as Map/GIS data go (as well as business listings goes, i.e. Yellow Books...).The picture you get is of a fragmented market so many companies are trying to the same thing. I

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Read this article in Technology Review about how Wikia hopes to be the next search engine. It does a good job of giving a full view of what Wikia is trying to do, while keeping the language simple for most users to understand. The author points out that Wikia is a for profit hoping to ride the open source collaboration movement popularized by things like Linux and Wikipedia.-Karl

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I first saw this on a TechCrunch post, and they quoted Tim O'Reilly's article Freebase will prove addictive. (Read their posts to get more info) It is a step towards the semantic web, which in simple terms is a way of organizing the web so that your computer can find meaningful information pertaining to you and what you want. To get all the info you want together today would probably take

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One internet trend that I failed to include in my last blog was Wiki, what is Web 2.0 without Wiki right? The first aspect to help make it easier to find really relevant sites is to create independant "Metadata," that is data that describes other data. This metadata would be in a wiki format so that anyone can add or correct information about the website. So what kinds of data could be included

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Google is great, but not always. If you don't know exactly what you are looking for (i.e. the exact phrases) you are screwed; you have to go through page after page of useless links and waste a lot of time. How do you fix that? It's going to be a ton of trial and error, but I think combining aspects of:Digg.com - digging or burying sites/(mostly news articles now) that are good, relevant,

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I have sat on the sidelines during this whole blogging explosion. I thought that they were cool but not for me. I did not know what to talk about, but now I think I do. Two things that I have always been facinated with are Innovation and Technology. I want to make things happen, but it seems that you need a PHD for any big company to even talk to you.I am always thinking, trying to come up

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