6 posts and columns on digitize

Early Adopter: The Daytum iPhone App Visualizes Your Life (and Lunch) as Data

in News on January 10, 2011 at 11:03 am PT

Want to do some serious numerical navel-gazing like the pros? Need to know how many eggrolls you’ve eaten this year? How about finding out at what bus station you are most likely to give change away? Daytum might be the app for that.

Insert Bad "Google Captchas reCAPTCHA" Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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Insert Bad “Google Captchas reCAPTCHA” Pun Here

in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.
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A Google Book Search for "Antitrust Law" Ought to Come in Handy Here…

in News on April 29, 2009 at 9:27 am PT

Google’s gone and run afoul of the Department of Justice again. Its interest piqued by the growing outcry over the company’s proposed book-search settlement with authors and publishers, the agency has opened an inquiry.
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A Google Book Search for “Antitrust Law” Ought to Come in Handy Here…

in News on April 29, 2009 at 9:27 am PT

Google’s gone and run afoul of the Department of Justice again. Its interest piqued by the growing outcry over the company’s proposed book-search settlement with authors and publishers, the agency has opened an inquiry.
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