The Next Big Website.

Information Gathering was a class I took at university. As a process, this a very important part for researching and creating web applications. However what are the effects of continuous information gathering in one area? 10 years ago, I thought that the refining process of information would happen quite quickly, because information from websites that [...]

Google Reader Play – A Visual Way To View The Web.

Google is always coming up with new ideas, some of the ground breaking, some of them not. One of Google’s latest releases is Google Reader Play. It’s a different way to view content on the web, by bringing together images, video and text in a visual slide show rather than a text based list. Content [...]

Web Trends – Recommendation Tools.

There seems to be a few sites out there using the concept of ‘recommendations by other users’. Here’s one from New York called Hunch. Hunch says it gives you customized recommendations and gets smarter the more you use it. One of the current most popular questions was ‘Should I get a TiVo Premiere?’ Funny they [...]

Music Reborn – Make Recommendations & Get Paid.

Music used to be simple. You heard a track on the radio, you purchased the record, you made tapes. Nice. Then came the Internet, and that all changed. Peer-to-peer file sharing created the need for free music. Although file sharing still continues to exist, there is now a significant market for legal streaming services. Music [...]

Aardvark

Aardvark was founded in late 2007 by Max Ventilla, Damon Horowitz, Nathan Stoll, and Rob Spiro. Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information. In 2008 the Aardvark team built out the core Aardvark product, while conducting an extensiveuser-researchcampaign to refine the [...]