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it’s been a while since Microsoft Live Labs launched and amongst their list of projects is a recent entry called Photosynth. It’s a totally new way to browse photos of a place or an object. It analyzes our personal photos and crawls those on the web, to find similarities and reconstruct a 3D view of [...]
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Google Web Toolkit
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is Google’s attempt to provide an environment for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and will be competing against commercial offerings like TIBCO’s General Interface and Adobe Flex. While Adobe Flex goes with MXML and ActionScript, and General Interface with JavaScript, GWT is going with Java as it’s language. Developers need to [...]
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Search relevance
Ethan Stock talks on his blog about the four fundamental ways to determine relevance in search results. These are: 1) Market/collective/algorithmic – Call it the law of large numbers, the wisdom of crowds, or statistical truth, but PageRank and similar “hubs and authorities” algorithms figure out, on average, what everybody thinks of a given site. [...]
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