Floozy Speak!

The web's got me thinking lately. Maybe its got ya thinking too, but let's just ramble about the latest hoots and hollars on the web shall we?

So Google buys a photo recognition company. Interesting. Riya missed out, could of cashed out gone big with google but now, Neven Vision steps into the limelight and it sounds like their photo recognition is pretty basic but getting there and only a slice of what the company is doing as a whole. Still Google continues to advance in all directions it seems.

In other Google news, theres a new google talk out and they just rolled out their new 11.5 mile wifi network there in mountain view california.. not bad.

YouTube press lately has been pretty hilarious its either getting blasted by the new 2.0 soap box critics of the web or its getting praised due to its sheer size on the web. Its up and then down and then nobody likes it and then its realized holy cow its massive everybody likes it. Basically nobody like a big site, yer site gets big, its time to take it out!! Also check out this nice interview with the co-founders of youtube.

Didn't know him and still don't really know him, but the brand called Carr is getting his share of blasting on the web for what comes across as "the blogosphere is pointless yet please link to my post" type read. Its actually more interesting that that, but its more of a burnout on blogging type post, a la nothing matters, dont read me but really read me kind of thing.

Last night I read about how they've figured out how to do heatmaps in javascript for web browsing. I started to think back when that was a semi-big deal in research and to think that now, they've figured out how to do them in java... woot!

TechCrunch tells us that PopSugar is on the loose and coming to a web browser near you. Could be groovy. Speaking of social networks, USA today had a piece in the paper the other day about how collage campuses now developing their own social networks taking a few hints from the facebook and myspace generations out there.

I played with Gliffy yesterday and build some concept screens for my latest project PRIME. VISIO on the web, that is sweet!

Speaking of PRIME I love this bizdev 2.0 aspect which is dead on really. One aspect of PRIME sorta involves reinventing much of what flickr does already, so lets make a that a bit simpler... hello API!

Zune, microsoft's supposed ipod killer debuts on the web with some elusive b/w photos.. oooo...

I recently came across the word of mouth blog on the net, pretty cool, I really like this post about why consumers generate word of mouth.

I'll never forget the day I bought a pack of starburst only to see that there was some clever mobile marketing SMS to see if ya won a free prize thing encased along with the standard packaging. I love the idea of mobile marketing.. recently Bath & Body Works has entered the scene as well.

The latest bootcamp is on apple and i saw that along with new enabled drivers for isight and such its also soared from 85mb to 200+ mb... now theres one thing the original designers didnt think about when building these new macs, think about 2 operating systems on them and basically taking all that available hard drive space just to run yer frickin xp as well, what a waste i say.

Here's a great "who's getting traffic in the 2.0 scene" meter...

November writing challenge is coming up, are you lulu for it?

A few weeks ago AOL accidently released of 3 months worth of search data on to its research page. WOOOPS!?! Supposedly 5 gigs of data went off into the masses of the web. People's identities we're replaced with unique number identifiers but already some people have come forward and said "umm those searches are mine.." as seen in a few NY Times articles. The other day I heard of AOLstalker, a web site that put all the search data in one place... type in a word, any word and it will tell you what user searched for it and what other searches that user did too. Its a bit spooky but more so amazing the kind of data we give away about ourselves everyday on line... and its all to be harvested.

GM takes to the blogs.. and flickr.. woah, good deal there GM!

And for something completely different.. dig into 10 great vids of beat making.

5 reasons why PRIME will succeed.

The War on Terror goes into season five with a new shocking opener, liquids on a plane!! The endless series is upon us.