NYT Bing, Bing, Bing: Get Ready To Hear About Microsoft's New Search, Again and Again Microsoft is expected to launch its new search engine this week and AdAge reports this morning that it will ride a huge wave of new advertising to promote it. The company has long offered Live Search, it had been talking about a new product called Kumo and now rumor has it the new search product will be called Bing. Except Microsoft just lost… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Trends Web Trends: What's New in 2009, Part 2 Last week we discussed some of the new trends we're seeing on the Web in 2009: open data, structured data, apps that filter content effectively, real-time, personalization, mobile (especially location-based), and Internet of Things (the Web in real-world objects). We asked for your thoughts on these trends, along with your suggestions on what… Richard MacManus View comments
Internet of Things Mir:ror: A Glimpse Into The Future of an RFID World Mir:ror is an Internet of Things app from the company Violet (follow on Twitter @violetOS). As the name suggests, it is literally a mirror - but an Internet-connected one which detects the objects you show it, triggering applications and multimedia content on your computer. It works via RFID stamps, known as "ztamp:s" in the company's… Richard MacManus View comments
Google App Mapping War Casualties Debuts for Memorial Day Weekend Every age brings new wars, and every war brings public expressions of collective grief and respect for the dead. My parents' generation had the Vietnam Memorial, and their parents' generation now have the National World War II Memorial. Our generation has fought a very different, very difficult war in the Middle East over the past eight years; as… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Google Google@Omgili Mashes Traditional Web Search With Social Buzz Omgili, which we reviewed in 2007 as a top alt search engine, has focused on culling results from the weird corners of the web: Forums, boards, discussion groups - basically, anywhere you'd find purely or mostly subjective information. It's the polar opposite of Google search, which is practically a peer-reviewed journal by comparison. Their… Jolie O'Dell View comments