Falling off the cliff…

… this made the joke of the day for me : youtube bothers about copyrights

Riya Img. Search goes live

Although I could appreciate neither its usefulness nor its performance this is an interesting news : Riya’s visual search took off today. I guess the similarity of name  to live.com is purely a coincidental… but my stupided brain always manages to notice such things. Restricting to shopping items, speed are my initial complaints. But whats been more interesting to me is that M$ is managing to make news almost on a daily basis : zune release, 3D views of cities, making friends with one time bitter rival Novell (Eric Schmidt must be watching this development.. )… etc. etc. are some that caught my attention. I was really impressed by the billboards thing on maps.live. Perhaps M$ woke up a bit late but is definitely on the right course in safeguarding its traditional domains while using converting its research in visual information processing in to products at a faster rate. Btw, Y! too seems to be gearing up, their image ads being the latest news.  What else? Following Paresh’s advice I am going to put in some vision and ML related tech stuff from now on.

Now another silly question. [This one really took some time for me ] : what is common for the digits 2 , 3, 7 and 8 ?

Yet more interesting things

I almost got bored of all these web 2.0 sites.. but this one again surprised me with a simple but impressive idea : Instacalc. I just noticed that they also got crunched yesterday. That should give them lot of attention. Lets see where they will go from here. I guess they are gonna be acquired soon by.. you know who . Not be left out of news for long here’s Googles today’s-new-stuff[I should be calling that an upgrade actually.. but who cares about the definition] . Meanwhile Y! does something special too : http://food.yahoo.com. And why am I screwing around my time reporting news : bcoz I cant figure out a self consistency measure to cluster correspondence populations.