Thursday, August 14, 2008

Clustering Photos To Make for a 3D Scene (Video)

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The University of Washington and Microsoft Research took many photos from a location from Flickr and algorithmically stitched them together to let users explore them in a 3D view. [Via Reddit.]

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Google Search Results Show Metadata for Scientific Papers

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Google started to integrate in the search results information about the scientific papers included in Google Scholar. Below the snippet, Google lists the authors, the number of citations and links to related articles and other versions available online. The integration is not perfect and the search results look cluttered, but it's yet another class of results that have richer snippets.

Here's the top search result for buddy tree (a data structure):


... and the same result at Google Scholar:


Google also shows additional information next to videos, books, web pages that include addresses and tests displaying metadata for forums and extracting specialized information from web pages. While Yahoo tries to convince webmasters to make structured data explicitly available, Google has a more practical approach and uses what's already available to enhance search results.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

A Week Without Google

What would you miss the most if your ISP blocked all Google services for a week? Among other things, the search engine would no longer work, Gmail's web interface wouldn't load, YouTube videos would be blocked, web pages would load slower because the Analytics tracking code would no longer work, all the Google Maps mashups would be completely useless for you.

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What would you miss the most if your ISP blocked all Google services for a week? Among other things, the search engine would no longer work, Gmail's web interface wouldn't load, YouTube videos would be blocked, web pages would load slower because the Analytics tracking code would no longer work, all the Google Maps mashups would be completely useless for you.


Fortunately, you don't have stay a week without Google, but this blog takes a break for a week.

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Gmail Shows "Never Send It To Spam" Filter

Google's webmailer Gmail has an apparently* new filter function named "Never send it to Spam". Ticking this should ensure that a certain email – with criteria you define, like by entering your friend's name in the "From" field – will not be accidentally sorted into the spam folder. It's a nice option to have as last resort, like when you identified certain types of good mail which never see the inbox, even though naturally most of the time we'd like to have Gmail figure it out for us automatically, I guess (e.g. to perhaps not flag something as spam which someone we talked to before sent to us, unless we flagged their messages as spam later on).

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Google's webmailer Gmail has an apparently* new filter function named "Never send it to Spam". Ticking this should ensure that a certain email – with criteria you define, like by entering your friend's name in the "From" field – will not be accidentally sorted into the spam folder. It's a nice option to have as last resort, like when you identified certain types of good mail which never see the inbox, even though naturally most of the time we'd like to have Gmail figure it out for us automatically, I guess (e.g. to perhaps not flag something as spam which someone we talked to before sent to us, unless we flagged their messages as spam later on).

[Thanks Hebbet!]

*I can't tell how new it is.

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Google Street View Car Pulled Over by Police

One of the cars that are currently filming every road in Britain stopped by police – for driving in a bus lane.

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The Telegraph writes:

<<One of the cars that are currently filming every road in Britain stopped by police – for driving in a bus lane.

The distinctive vehicle – complete with roof-mounted camera pole and Google logo on the door – was stopped in the centre of Bradford at 12.40pm yesterday.

Eyewitnesses described how the Google car was followed through the city centre by a panda car with sirens blazing.>>

If there's ever going to be a movie made about Google, please, put in something from that last paragraph.

In other news, the British Information Commissioner's Office just gave Google's Street View filming the thumbs up, Guardian reports. This organization, called a privacy watchdog by the Guardian, stated they are "satisfied that Google is putting in place adequate safeguards to avoid any risk to the privacy or safety of individuals, including the blurring of vehicle registration marks and the faces of anyone included in Street View images".

[Thanks Manoj Nahar and Dave Shaw!]

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UK police fly out to probe Antigua murder

A man critically injured in a honeymoon attack that killed his wife has arrived back in the UK, as British detectives fly to Antigua to help with the investigation, according to media reports.

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A man critically injured in a honeymoon attack that killed his wife has arrived back in the UK, as British detectives fly to Antigua to help with the investigation, according to media reports.


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Therapist: Anthrax suspect had 'kill plan'

An anthrax researcher who committed suicide earlier this week had threatened his therapist and recently outlined a plan to kill his co-workers, according to audiotape of court testimony.

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An anthrax researcher who committed suicide earlier this week had threatened his therapist and recently outlined a plan to kill his co-workers, according to audiotape of court testimony.


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