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Intel turns to Web 2.0 to get development tips from users |
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Intel Corp. two weeks ago quietly launched an online community to solicit suggestions from users, partners and others for new features in the next generation of its vPro chips. Company officials, speaking on a panel today at the Office 2.0 conference here, said they expect that the company's chip developers will begin taking advantage of the suggestions within six months. "We are trying to take the online community and snap it into our end-user feedback [mechanism]," said Josh Hilliker, community manager of the site, called the Intel vPro Expert Center. "We're going to open up to the community to tell us what they want. We're going to take this and put it right back into silicon and announce new features." He said the company created the site to help resellers and users share information and best practices for configuring and using vPro technology, which was first introduced by Intel a year ago. "We need to decrease the integration time of vPro into IT shops," he added. "We're using the community to do that. We want to do knowledge transfer -- taking our intellectual data and passing it to the community. To think that Intel has all the data ... doesn't work anymore." - Full Story |
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Training Machines to Participate in Gaming |
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Computers playing computer games may sound odd, but it's an example of the ongoing man versus machine debate.  To the outside observer, all games can seem pretty pointless. But even to gamers who knowthey're not, there's a whole subset of pointlessness. But there is an even greater level of pointless play that baffles almost everyone. These are the systems devised by people who are more interested in getting machines to play for them than in playing themselves.... At its best, the machine disappears, becoming instead an invisible conduit between you and these dozens of men and women who've spent years bending their immense imaginations and arcane skills to creating something designed purely to make you happy. - Full Story  Researcher Kevin Herron has built a bot that plays Guitar Hero |
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Powerset and hakia - Quest For The Semantic Web |
The Semantic Web as defined by Tim Berners-Lee is: "a universal platform for the exchange of data, information and knowledge." I think Barney and Melek would agree, that the only thing preventing the Semantic Web so far has been an inefficient use of horsepower - or a lack of it.  Semantics is expressed meaning in language, code or "other" representations of information. My discussions with Barney and Melek revealed the fundamental differences in architecture and philosophy between hakia and Powerset. The index systems of the two companies are fundamentally different, as is their philosophy - but their goals and visions are remarkably similar. They are also different in the way they apply what I term horsepower to natural language search. Like the symbolism of Shelby vs. Ferrari,– it is possible for different approaches to achieve a desired result - given enough horsepower. - Full Story |
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Business 2.0 Finally Dead... For Real This Time |
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Our research group has been expecting a backlash against the "2.0" movment in business and the web. We believe this is due to a lack of definition and ultimately a lack of a solid philosophical foundation. A final quote from the article makes this very point. "In the end, it's really rather unfortunate (or ironic?) that a magazine called Business 2.0 never quite figured out the 2.0 business model it needed to survive." This is why we have tried to steer away from identifying our research in typical 2.0 terms. Instead of simply riding the 2.0 craze, we are seeking to identify the fundamenal issues which are being manifested in the 2.0 phenomena and which will last well beyond the fad. - Todd Business 2.0 Finally Dead... For Real This Time "Business 2.0 has gone through a variety of changes over the years. I still remember when it launched to great fanfare (and silly mysterious billboards along Highway 101) in 1998. At the time, no one could figure out why the world needed another tech business magazine, when pretty much everyone was perfectly satisfied with Wired, Red Herring and Upside. Of course, soon afterwards even more tech business magazines started to show up, including Time Warner's horribly named eCompanyNow and the popular Industry Standard (which launched at about the same time as Business 2.0, if I remember correctly). With the dot com bubble still inflating, these magazines soon were thick with ads, but people began ignoring them, as the articles tended to get worse and worse. Then the the dot com bubble burst, and many of the magazines went out of business in a flash, including The Industry Standard, Red Herring and Upside. Business 2.0 put itself up for sale, hoping to avoid the fate of the others. Time Warner "bought" it, but really just slapped the Business 2.0 name on eCompanyNow -- which had never picked up much of a following. " - Full Story |
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