Visual search engines

Came across Riya recently which puts an interesting spin on the still fairly new wave of photo management websites. Riya can analyse the photos you give it using face detection and can guess very accurately who the people are in your photos (after some initial training of course). It can also do character recognition to spot signs and logos. Very clever!

Tags: search engine, photo, Riya

Free Windows Vista CD

Update: Page no longer exists!

By completing this quiz (http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx), you can get a CD of Microsoft Windows Vista beta 2 sent to you for free. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any means but it could be interesting...

Related: Vista, Microsoft

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Here's a link to an audio clip that's relevant to today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to shorten it to the first 14 seconds or so... Be warned! There are a few rude lyrics thereafter (that I'm not sure I fully understand). Listen here.

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Google Code Jam 2006

A date has been set - September 5th.

Tags: Google Code Jam

Just retracing some of my steps using Google Earth and Google Maps and noticed that the reservoir in Central Park looks as if it's either got a very narrow bridge across it or a tunnel. How great would a glass underwater tunnel be (assuming that the water was really clear)! See for yourself.

Related: Google Maps, Google Earth

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Chelsea lose community shield

Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1 today! Even the new England captain John Terry couldn't influence the outcome. Although I think it's a good choice of captain by new England coach Steve McClaren, unfortunately whenever John Terry's name is mentioned, I just see the incident of Ronaldinho running him over and scoring in last year's Champion's League. It was a superb goal. Oh, and he scored against Chelsea the year before too.

Pandora

Listen to streamed music that is customised to suit you! Pandora asks what songs you like then introduces similar music by different artists. Then by rating new songs, you can train their algorithm to make better introductions. It's like the best radio station ever.

Tags: music, Pandora

Flight sims

Goggles isn't a proper flight simulator like the ones used to train pilots but an online game that makes clever use of Google Maps. (Tip: If you try flying around London, you're starting in Hyde Park.)

Related: flight simulator, Google Maps

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