2005-03-15

From the Labs


Microsoft:

turn any surface into an input-output surface

"we mapped the genome and found that all life is digital"

[bollocks. what we found is that a single slice of a lossy representation is
digital.]

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Yahoo:

http://next.yahoo.com/

contextual search: http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/start.html

[too fuzzy I think. I'd prefer a tool-like, search-in-this-site-region box. or
both, actually, because searching for "ticket" related to some particular
baseball game story is indeed really powerful.]

NewsFutures

using futures markets and search volumes on search X vs search Y to find future
trends, launching today:

http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/bk/index.html

"Dynamic Pari-mutuel Auction" -- new kind of auction.