Of course, more important than simply matching up photos to albums (something humans can easily do on their own) is using facial recognition to tag faces automatically. Facebook was one of the innovators in supplying a way for people to tag their friends in photos, which has even managed to carry over well on the
iPhone [...]
Having failed to strike a search deal with Yahoo, Microsoft has been working to revamp its own search efforts.
According to a report in Advertising Age, the company is likely to tap ad giant JWT for the campaign. Microsoft declined to comment on the report.
Microsoft has been testing changes to its search under the Kumo brand [...]
Update, September 24: this background check is no longer performed. Anyone can get a Clear card as long as they have two forms of government identification. See my followup post, “Is Clear worth anything at all?”
Doesn’t it seem like VIP is leveraging its privileged position in airport security–a position established in cooperation with a [...]
Chengdu has attracted tech companies in part through its High-Tech Industrial Development Zone. According to the Chengdu Invest site, the zone has attracted a huge number of domestic and foreign tech companies including IBM, Symantec, Microsoft, Intel, Fujitsu, NEC, Motorola, and Nokia.
IBM, which employs 13,000 people throughout China, primarily has sales offices in the region [...]
A rough-and-ready search engine Vik Sighn created to show how a Python programming library used to process Yahoo's BOSS-based search results on Google App Engine.
On Monday, Yahoo programmer Vik Singh, who has been involved in the BOSS project, released software that lets those two projects work together. Specifically, he adapted a package called the [...]
Viewing Facebook photos is really great in this app. They have implemented the same “flick” style of navigation that the
iPhone uses and photos flip over to reveal comments. Overall, the UI is pretty intuitive and uses a lot of the same conventions that Apple does. Taking photos and uploading them to Facebook could not be [...]
The payment mechanism stems from the display ad world. A select group of advertisers pays Yahoo as an extra monthly fee on top of their regular branded advertising elsewhere on the site, Yahoo said. It’s a flat fee that doesn’t change according to how often the ad is shown.
Hybrid approach
Yahoo’s rich ads for search are [...]
Is a so-called brand ad that has a URL at the end still a brand ad? Or has it seeped into the uncreative, ugly nether regions of direct salesmanship?
It’s quite surprising (at least to those in the discipline that used to be called direct response) how many supposedly emotional ads make people buy the product [...]
Facebook is drawing developer attention to its platform at a crucial time: first, it’s expanded its API to the Facebook Connect initiative; and second, it’s now competing for geek attention not only with rival social-networking platforms but also with Apple’s
iPhone, the hot platform du jour.
Developers, start your engines: submissions are now open for the developer [...]
T-Mobile’s latest Sidekick, code-named Gekko, will launch July 30 according to cell phone enthusiast blog The Boy Genius.
CNET Reviews editor Bonnie Cha reported on rumors of the new Sidekick earlier this month.
It looks like the creative geniuses in Microsoft’s product marketing team may have helped name the new device that will simply be called “Sidekick [...]
