Author Archives: jeremy

Google Music China: Unprecedented?

Posted on September 21, 2009 by jeremy

There is an interesting recent post about the history of Google Music in China from an article by Michael Zhang in Global Entrepreneur Magazine. Some excerpts: “It will play the right music without you having to give it any thought.” … Continue reading →

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Data Liberation and Ownership

Posted on September 18, 2009 by jeremy

I split my blogging between this and the FXPAL blog. This morning I have a post on the latter site that asks an (imho) important question about data ownership and data liberation with respect to one’s web search history.. not … Continue reading →

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There is No Crowd

Posted on September 17, 2009 by jeremy

Via Xavier Amatriain: The Dirty Little Secret About the “Wisdom of the Crowds” – There is No Crowd: This is hardly the first time that the so-called “wisdom of the crowds” has been called into question. The term, which implies … Continue reading →

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Fast Flip: Is Bing Affecting Google?

Posted on September 15, 2009 by jeremy

…via Ask and SearchMe, that is? Let me explain. Google announced a new bit of interface design into its News search results today: Fast Flip: Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users…”flip” through pages online as quickly … Continue reading →

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Time to Eat My Words: The Search Box Grows

Posted on September 10, 2009 by jeremy

Half a year ago I wrote a blogpost about an easy change that Google could make to its interface, one that would both sacrifice only the least bit of simplicity as well as entice and encourage the user to enter … Continue reading →

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Apple 2009 = ISMIR 2000

Posted on September 9, 2009 by jeremy

If you haven’t heard (probably not likely), Apple announced a number of upgrades to its iPod/iTunes product line today. It is interesting to me because I see more and more Music Information Retrieval making it into consumer products. Genius added … Continue reading →

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Google’s Long Term Goals: More of the Same

Posted on September 6, 2009 by jeremy

A few days ago there was a Techcrunch interview of Google’s Eric Schmidt. Here’s the bit that struck me: [TC] The long term goal of Google search, he says, is to give the user one exactly right answer to a … Continue reading →

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My Luddite Summer

Posted on August 28, 2009 by jeremy

I came across an interesting post today entitled “My Luddite Summer” by NYT blogger Timothy Egan. Just wanted to share this tidbit: Came back to the city. Took part in a three-day experiment with other writers to see who was … Continue reading →