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Face(book) recognition for the masses?

For several weeks now, Coke Zero has had spooky looking ads on the net saying: "If Coke Zero has Coke's taste, is it possible someone out there has your face?" The teaser features two faces that obviously belong to different people but look roughly similar.

More lifebits: recording everything makes other people uncomfortable

Here's another attempt at attempt at a MyLifeBits project. He only does it for a week, but he includes his daily conversations as well. He doesn't seem to offer many new insights into the issues surrounding capturing every possible ounce of digital data.

Public Records, Metadata & Law

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in Lake v. City of Phoenix that as law dictates for public records disclosure (as it does in Phoenix), when public records are requested, even if they are in an electronic format, they must be provided and must include the metadata. From the decision:

facial recognition is sooo last year... how about object recognition?

In Lecture today, Bob made a point about the gap between humans & computers ability to sense and describe an object... and that a 3-year old is able to perform better (in terms of recognizing objects) than any computer.  But what about Facial Recognition software?

Facial Recognition software has been heavily invested in for a long time... perhaps we will move beyond recognizing faces to recognizing objects?

1 in 12.5 believe Elvis is still alive

"The odds an adult believes there is a chance that Elvis Presley is still alive are 1 in 12.5". Answer to, is Elvis Presley alive? Website called "book of odds" is answering questions like these using semantic search. Its about applying semantic technology to simpler much simpler problem. Read further details in follwing article:

http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/10/12/daily23.html

Book of Odds: http://www.bookofodds.com/

 

Google does not use the keywords meta tag in search rankings

It's now official, though many in the SEO industry have known for years -- Google's search algorithms don't take into account the meta tag in its web rankings. Google says that the main reason is because people were abusing the tag.  Not a big surprise for people in the SEO industry, but Google says that they they of couse *may* use them in years to come for something--though probably not.

Weinberger has a metadata problem

 

Nobody is immune!

Tagging + Svenonius

I noticed this while working on an IO Lab project: 

For what it's worth, the "metadata" tag is also very popular. On the other hand, Weinberger's "Everything is Miscellaneous" has been tagged with "wishlist" 22 times.

Also, here's LibraryThing's take on what a "work" is.

Netflix's next contest for movie predictions

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/netflix-awards-1-million-prize-and-starts-a-new-contest/?hp

Looks like Netflix's next contest has contestants designing an algorithm that can can accurately model a more accurate 'taste profile' of movie preferences when factoring in demographic & behavioral data (as well as the traditional genre and previously viewed ratings).

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