Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Interesting thought by Mike Shatzkin on the unlikeliness of pictures in eBooks anytime soon (bold added):
The proliferation of formats, devices, screen sizes, and delivery channels means that the idea of “output one epub file and let the intermediaries take it from there” is an unworkable strategy. [Here's one reason why:] ...
Posted in Human input, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ben Lorica's excellent post at O'Reilly Radar (Waiting for the Billionth Download) is full of details about iPhone apps. A bit overshadowed is the growth in the Books category. I've done some clipping and rearranging on one of Lorica's charts to bring this out -- Note that the Rate-of-Change for ...
Posted in PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Last week the National Academy of Sciences announced that "more than 9,000 Academies reports" are now available through Google Book Search, upon completion of "the first phase of a partnership with Google to digitize the library's collection of reports from 1863 to 1997." This sounds like good news, but it's ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 10th, 2009
In Dec, 2008, Google announced that they had begun adding recent popular magazines to Google Book Search. Because Google, inexplicably, chose not to provide a list of titles that were included, I made a list of about 40 titles, and until recently I hadn't added to it, assuming that Google ...
Posted in Google, Magazines, PicsNo, Twitter, Uncategorized | No Comments »
