Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Open Source Search Engine Dave Winer investigated a new open source search engine called Nutch. DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine. [Scripting News] 12:01:57 PM    comment []

Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Targeted Advertising This article is about the expansion of the bid-for-ad-placement concept from strictly the search domain to the general "web-site" browsing context. If You Liked the Web Page, You'll Love the Ad. Online publishers are beginning to sense the possibilities of having Google or Overture serve ads to their audiences. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology] 1:33:18 PM    comment []

Monday, July 21, 2003

The Amazon.com Portal Amazon is apparently trying to do what the Library of Congress probably should do, that is make archived book content searchable. Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books. Amazon.com is negotiating with book publishers to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of thousands of nonfiction books. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Technology] 1:47:01 PM    comment []

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Autonomy Acquires Virage Autonomy (Nasdaq: AUTN) announced the purchase of a small company called Virage (Nasdaq-SCM: VRGE) which they apparently intend to integrate with their existing Dremedia division.  Dremedia  software  uses  Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating LayerTM (IDOL) technology and enhances it by providing a technology platform that automatically analyzes, understands, and manipulates video and audio content. Acquiring Virage adds a software product suite that covers the creative side of video production, Internet publishing and webcasting. Virage is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and was established in 1995. It's products include: VS ProductionTM for professional video production VS PublishingTM for developing content into compelling Internet programming VS WebcastingTM for planning and producing interactive, live and on-demand webcasts The company has ~400 customers including: Cisco Systems, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Harvard University, NASCAR, Oracle Corporation, Pfizer, the United States Senate, Xerox and others. www.virage.com. Here's an article in The Register about the acquisition. Autonomy swoops on Virage. Video Play [The Register] 8:24:45 AM    comment []

Microsoft At NCTA Yesterday at NCTA, Microsoft introduce Microsoft® TV Foundation Edition what they descirbe as "a new digital TV software platform designed to help cable operators get more value from on-demand and other digital TV services" They simultaneously announced support (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/mstvIndustrySupportPR.mspx) for the platform from cable industry vendors Motorola, Inc., SeaChange, Concurrent Computer Corp., MetaTV Inc., Two Way TV Ltd. and Advanced Digital Broadcast Ltd. They also announced a customer win  (http://www.microsoft.com/tv/cablevisionselectsmspr.mspx) for the software platform with Televisa's Cablevision (CVC) subsidiary, one of Mexico City's largest cable MSO with ~450k subscribers announcing that they will adopt it. 3:10:46 PM    comment []

Thursday, April 03, 2003

Trusted Computing Wave Systems announced their earnings for Q4 2002 today. According to their press release [see exerpt below] they are looking for strategic partners. "Steven Sprague, Wave's president and CEO, said, "In order to raise the additional capital required to fund Wave's operations, we have engaged an investment banking firm and are exploring a number of financing alternatives which include debt or equity financing (or a combination of both) or one or more commercial or strategic transactions." "The personal computing industry is now committed to a historic transition to trusted computing. The most influential players -companies including Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, AMD, National Semiconductor, Infineon and others - have publicly committed to a trusted PC environment secured by a hardware chip. Without a doubt, today's inherently insecure PC is morphing to tomorrow's secure and trusted PC which will offer a range of productive services for users. Wave's long commitment to hardware and services-secured trusted computing has made us influential in the evolution of this huge and evolving market opportunity." 1:48:21 PM    comment []

Thursday, March 27, 2003

Google (Distributed) Compute CNET reported that Google's R&D Lab has floated a distributed computing test called Google Compute. Google tests distributed computing [CNET News.com] 2:00:57 PM    comment []

Thursday, March 06, 2003

NYT's On Organizing Our Stuff Cull, Then Categorize: A Digital Scrapbook. Options for managing digital images have proliferated almost as rapidly as the cameras themselves. By Tom Di Nome. [New York Times: Technology] 9:15:44 AM    comment []

Wednesday, March 05, 2003

Google An interesting summary of what Google is by a guy named Jason Kottke: "Google is not a search company." via Kevin Werbog's weblog. [Werblog] 10:48:40 AM    comment []

NYT on the Google Targeted Advertising Announcement It's interesting that the weblog world was all abuzz about this yesterday but the NYT didn't pick up on it until today. Technology Briefing: E-Commerce. GOOGLE INTRODUCES NEW AD SERVICE; ELECTRONIC ARTS DROPS PUBLIC OFFERING PLAN;. [New York Times: Business] 8:01:29 AM    comment []