While watching the Giants OT victory over the Bengals today I saw this new Microsoft ad: Video: Pride The ad is a direct response to Mac’s outstanding I’m a Mac, I’m a PC campaign, which effectively makes the argument that PC users are the dorks and Mac users are the cool kids (full disclosure:…
Al Gore’s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates. Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension “#current” which will be scraped for inclusion. According to an AP article by Jake Coyle: During the debates, the network bent on viewer-created content will broadcast Twitter…
Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced “cool” but the coloring of the font suggests “coo-el”). Cuil displays its search results as chunks of text across two or three columns. Here, the…
Via Ewan McIntosh, introducing Animoto, an application that mashes together the images you upload with music you select to create a unique video production. The folks at Animoto—"a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out"—have developed "Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like…