Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos

Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos: "Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos"

Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.

Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.

FriendFeed Brings Twitter Back

FriendFeed Brings Twitter Back: "FriendFeed is the new Twitter. That’s what everyone is saying these days (including me). And by everyone, we mean the early adopter crowd, many of which that made Twitter popular in the first place.

Interestingly, one of the most common things to see on FriendFeed is a long back-and-forth conversation develop from a simple, short Twitter post. Given the uzi-fire rate at which the FriendFeed team creates new features, it was only a matter of time before they decided to create the ability to send some of those conversations on back to Twitter."

pronetos.com

Pronetos [http://pronetos.com/] is a home to communities and scholars of every academic discipline: a global think-tank of the leaders in your field.

* Share a paper with colleagues
* Find scholars in your field
* Post course materials
* Network and collaborate
* Find research in your field
* Post an announcement to your colleagues
* See the message board in your discipline

Pronetos is a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content. With Pronetos, ideas are shared at the speed of thought, and those who create them control them.

Technology News: Social Networking: Social Media Burnout

Technology News: Social Networking: Social Media Burnout: "My Facebook profile is in danger of becoming an office directory with pictures. That's fine to a point, but the idea of Facebook is to interact with a community of like-minded friends. Social networking has turned into work. I'm not alone in my concerns. An online marketer -- and Facebook friend -- also noted social media fatigue."

Scents and Sensibility: Books: The New Yorker

Scents and Sensibility: Books: The New Yorker: "So taste is mainly smell, and smell is a profound mystery. Why is it that one molecule







smells of spearmint, while its mirror image







smells of caraway? No one knows."

Law.com - 8-Year-Old Passes Law School Entrance Test; Authorities to Investigate

i thought doing this at 18 was a big deal...this kid did it at 8!
Law.com - 8-Year-Old Passes Law School Entrance Test; Authorities to Investigate

Naughty Librarians’ Convention 2008 | Laughing Squid

OMG!!!! someone send me a plane ticket!!!
Naughty Librarians’ Convention 2008 | Laughing Squid: "Naughty Librarians’ Convention 2008

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/449103/?ps=6

Saturday, March 8, 2008
2:00 PM

Ha-Ra Cub
875 Geary Street
san francisco, California 94109
Category
Education
Description

Librarians are the new nurses and it’s time to break out your bookish booties for the sake of something hot: reading!

Dress as a sexy schoolmarm, a libidinous librarian or a prurient professor and meet up at 2 p.m. Saturday for prim and proper cocktails at the Ha Ra club in the Tenderloin.

From there we’ll head to the San Francisco Main Public Library to put our libidinous librarian mojo to work. Hosted by Princess Honeybee. Sponsored by RIF (Reading is Fundamental), the Hoover Institution, the Mitchell Brothers, Focus on the Family and Good Vibrations."

Slashdot | UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable

Slashdot | UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable: "Since its foundation, the United Nations system has been collecting statistical information from member states on a variety of topics. The information thus collected constitutes a considerable information asset of the organization. However, these statistical data are often stored in proprietary databases, each with unique dissemination and access policies. As a result, users are often unaware of the full array of statistical information that the UN system has in its data libraries. The current arrangement also means that users are required to move from one database to another to access different types of information. UNdata addresses this problem by datapooling major UN databases and those of several other international organizations into one single Internet environment. The innovative design allows a user to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search."