10 posts and columns on metadata

Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC

in News on March 31, 2011 at 1:25 am PT

Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?

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WakeMate Finally Ships–Will You Sleep Better Now That It's Watching You?

in News on December 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm PT

After a year of delays, promises and refunded deposits, the WakeMate sleep monitoring gadget is finally shipping. But do you want it watching you sleep?

Any Good Live Video on the Web Right Now? Ask Clicker.

in Media on May 4, 2010 at 10:00 am PT

Web video guide Clicker is adding real-time streams to its catalog. But just the legal ones. You’ll have to get pirated World Cup feeds on your own.

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Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter

in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel. David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.

Some Twits Chirp From Twitter Conference: @Ev, @Biz and More!

in News on April 15, 2010 at 4:13 am PT

Here’s a video BoomTown did yesterday at the Twitter Chirp conference, where a lot of noise was made about a lot of things. Like: Twitter has a Google Android app; Twitter has a link shortener; Twitter does more searches than you think, Twitter has 105.8 million registered users and is adding 300,000 a day; Twitter users write 55 million posts a day; Twitter is being archived at the Library of Congress. Also more blah-blah-blah on geolocation, metadata called Annotations and, of course, @anywhere, which is essentially Facebook Connect for Twitter. And–oh, yes–making money. That.

Is the AP Adding DRM to the News? Not Yet.

in Media on July 23, 2009 at 1:03 pm PT

Here’s the next step in the Associated Press’s attempt to adapt to the reality of the Web: It’s going to try to keep tabs on its stories, photos and videos via a “news registry that will tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use.” At first blush, the AP’s description of the program sounds a lot like an attempt to implement digital rights management–a lock-and-key system–for the news. But at least in this iteration, that’s not the case.

Google: The Search for Relevancy

in News on May 12, 2009 at 2:31 pm PT

LIVE: Google Searchology

in News on May 12, 2009 at 10:13 am PT

The architects of Google search are holding court at company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., this morning offering what promises to be a sort of state of the union on search. Overseeing the event, dubbed “Google Searchology”: Udi Manber, VP of Search Engineering, and Marissa Mayer VP of Search Products and User Experience. Key subjects: the challenge of solving every user problem, mobile search across multiple platforms and different UI schemes, and greater user customization through tools like SearchWiki and Google Search Options, a basket of new services just announced.
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A Search Engine With a Real Eye for Videos

in The Mossberg Solution on November 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm PT

Web video has transformed the way the Internet is used, but finding the exact clip you want can be incredibly hard. And it’s no wonder, considering that sites like YouTube conduct their hunts by looking at a clip’s “contextual metadata” — tags, video title and description — and thus can often be misled by false information.
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Grave New World

in News on September 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm PT