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Search engine for poor people: BBC news has a story about a new MIT search engine called TEK, that works via email. Searches take 24 hours, but are useful for cash-and-bandwidth-poor, but time-rich, people in developing countries who connect infrequently from shared public terminals. In contrast, rich but time-poor people in the West have no patience for slow search responses. Many observers note that there is little on the net that is of direct value to poor people... Comments 10:05:41 PM 
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 Larry Page, Sergei Brin and Tony Perkins (l to r) at the Always-On Innovation Summit this evening. Google has, in order of magnitude, 200 million searches a day, 1000,000 advertisers, tens of thousands of servers, and 1000 people, of whom 100 hold PhDs.
Founder Larry Page is intrigued by 'blogs "Blogs are a social phenomenon. Everyday people become reporters, and write things that get noticed." Larry thinks getting Slashdotted is a big deal, and that 'blogs will turn established media on its head.
Page also thought that the importance of the Internet comes down to distribution. When Google had 5 employees, it had a million clients: they couldn't publish their phone number because they would have been overwhelmed by phone calls.
Sergei Brin thinks that in 5 years people won't need to do searches: relevant information will be delivered to them automatically. On a scale of 1 to 10 Page put current search technology at '1', Brin at a '4'. Page thinks we'll need AI to do good searches: Brin posits 'wireless brain appliances' for search info delivery... |
 Glide Memorial Choir was the welcome if surprising entertainment choice at the Always-On Innovation Summit this evening. The top innovation winners, announced tonight, were: best innovation, Apple, for the iTunes Music Store; best B2B innovation, salesforce.com; best consumer innovation and best company, Google. The choir *rocks*... more tech companies should consider supporting soulful music (and organizations)...Comments 9:26:04 PM
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Kevin Fong (Mayfield Partners): "We have the killer app for Linux." Reporting from the Always-On conference... Comments 6:17:37 PM
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The Kent Format is a PDF newspaper formatted for tablet PCs. If fits the screen in portrait mode, requires no scrolling and has a print-like business model - display ads and subscriptions. Roger Fidler developed the format at Kent State University, working with Adobe, Knight-Ridder and the LA Times... tip from Steve Snell at Adobe... Comments 4:10:06 PM
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PortfolioLab.com is Mark Loundy's latest venture. Looks like a meta-app for creating Web sites... Comments 3:58:32 PM
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Innovation Summit: Always-On Network is holding a conference at Stanford this evening through Thursday. We'll be attending... hope they have WiFi... Comments 3:55:38 PM
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FTP problem is fixed, thanks to Kim Gammelgård, Mac OS X Hints et al. Mac OS 10.2 sets the privileges on FTP'd files to 'No Access' for 'everyone', unlike Mac OS 10.1 which did set 'read-only'... you need 'read only' for a file to be Web-servable... Comments 2:21:19 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:47:14 PM
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