Taking a Look at Microsoft’s Live Search
Last week, Microsoft’s Live Search (as opposed to the I’m-Not-Dead-I’m-Getting-Better” search) announced a new version, so I moseyed over to give it a test drive. The search URL, of course, is...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Yahoo Team Up — Eventually
My timing on writing about the new Yahoo home page was either really good or really bad. I sat around speculating and critiquing and wondering and then Microsoft and Yahoo teamed up anyway. You know, I...
View ArticleMicrosoft Launches Cool Picture Zoomer
Microsoft recently launched a new picture tool called Seadragon. Available at http://seadragon.com/, you can point Seadragon to any image on the Web, and get a zoomable viewer. It works very simply:...
View ArticleTwitter, Google, Civil Rights, More: Morning Buzz, August 2, 2012
Wow: a database of every US Bomb dropped since WWI. “The project is called THOR: Theater History of Operations Reports and allows people to use their computers to literally point and click to nearly...
View ArticleMicrosoft, AMBER Alets, More: Wednesday Morning Buzz, January 15, 2014
Google Images has made the rights search part of its engine much more prominent. This is Creative Commons licensing search. Microsoft is offering free screen reader software to visually-impaired...
View ArticleFacebook, NSA, Bing, More: Saturday Buzz, June 28, 2014
According to an article in A.V. Club, Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a giant psychology experiment. Mashable breaks down the World Cup numbers. Wait a minute. The NSA did a transparency...
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