eTech

One of the meta tracks here at eTech seems to be “a peak inside modern software research labs”. Today, we heard from Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves provides an alternate search engine. In their … Read more

Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, gave spoke at eTech on the topic of the economics of the Long Tail. The Long Tail refers to a distribution curve that has many … Read more

JC Herz gave an eTech presentation on the current status of adoption of emerging hi-tech by the military. After a brief description of the needs of the military she presented a short video … Read more

Larry Lessig starts the day at eTech by relating the H.G. Wells story, “The Country of the Blind”. The cure: remove the eyes … A comment on current affairs? He says: Stop! With … Read more

I was going to attend Zawodny’s Yahoo talk, but as it’s mainly an API overview I figured I’d get more out of this etech session. The Creative Commons license is a fairly new … Read more

Continuing a theme, Clay Shirky’s eTech presentation focused on categorization, tagging and labeling. Deep or wide or ? I know I face these issues in dealing with my image and music library. We … Read more

An interesting eTech session was a panel discussion on the topic of user defined categorization, known as folksonomy. Contrary to common wisdom, which indicates that only “trained professionals” can correctly choose keywords, folksonomies … Read more