Despite investigating and playing with the latest technology trends every day, there are still moments where I can’t believe how far we’ve progressed over the last ten years. I had one of those moments this morning… Yep, sorry for that mental image. This morning Coldplay live streamed a concert direct from Spain via YouTube (brought [...]
Read MoreClaudia Karvan: producer, writer and actress. 27 years in the industry. Appeared in movies including Star Wars and Dating the Enemy and TV series including The Secret Life of Us and Love My Way. Winner of six Australian Film Institute Awards and two silver Logies. Google’s Claudia Karvan: actress, flasher and blasphemer. Six search results [...]
Read MoreThe gap between where the internet ends and the medium of television begins got even smaller last week with the announcement of the launch of Google TV. In partnership with Sony, Intel, Logitech, Dish Networks, Adobe and Best Buy – Google will roll out a platform that makes the multimillion-channel TV a reality. The simple [...]
Read More‘Twas the summer of 2009 (at least to my memory) when Google rolled out predictive text in their search box – a feature which I seem to have a love/hate relationship with depending on how accurate the results are, or how sloppy my typing is… What has this got to do with riding zebras? Well, [...]
Read MoreGoogle is a company that has a mission to make the world’s information as universally accessible as possible. And, in their Code of Conduct they state their philosphy is “Don’t be evil.” Both of these seem at odds with how the company operates in China. In 2006 Google entered the world’s fast-growing internet market by [...]
Read MoreThis morning I decided to temporarily stop using Google Search after almost 10 years of making daily requests to the world’s most popular search engine. It isn’t because Google has done anything wrong in particular. Ok, it does feel a little creepy the way it tracks each and every search I do. And Google has [...]
Read MoreThere’s a nasty rumour that I am algorithmist. This is simply not true. Algorithms make the world go round. IF the sun is rising in the east THEN day is approaching. IF the clock says 3.00pm THEN my dogs want to be fed. My son Sam and I used to write algorithms in BASIC for [...]
Read MoreWant to book a centre seat, 6 rows back at a concert hall? Sorry not yet, we’re selling off the rubbish seats on the side at the back first. Want to pull your fighter jet into a 10g climb? Computer says no, that would exceed predetermined stress levels. Want to Google the lyrics, “The rhythm [...]
Read MoreI’ve always loved reading reference materials, and probably always will. So if anyone out there had any doubt left in them that I’m not a total dweeb, banish those doubts now. But I’m unashamed in my love of absorbing facts, figures, diagrams and histories. Growing up, those facts came almost exclusively from the set of [...]
Read MoreLast week, Google announced their plans for behavioural targeting when serving up bazillions of ads each day. The approach they plan to use follows the lines of ‘if you don’t ask we won’t tell’- essentially making the detailed information that Google collects about you available if you have the inclination to review it. While Google [...]
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