Valentin's Blog

Some of the more notable links from the past weeks:

Google and the deep web - Great blog post summarizing and collecting links about Google's strategies in dealing with the deep web.

People-Powered Search - Article about the newly emerging sites that directly harness human participation to improve search.

How GPUs work - nice introductory piece into the structure of modern Graphics cards. This is for you, if you (like me) believe that GPU are starting to play a larger role in general purpose computing but have no clou how they work internally.

Don't Stand So Close To Me - Social conventions in Second Life. About how much Avatars act like humans in real life.

Second Earth - Long Technology Review about the idea of the "mirror world" (think the combination of SecondLife of Google Earth). You may need to register at technology review - but its an elaborate 11page article, so its worth the hassle.

A video about Spore - Will Wright's (the inventor of SimCity and the Sims) newest project that looks like it can change all ours perceptions what computer games can be and how suitable computer tools can really expand a humans potential (you'll understand me after you watched the video).

And on the funny side of things: Folksonomy is the most hated Internet word and two funny videos about PowerPoint.

As usual you can find all the links at del.icio.us, the newest ones are also always shown in the sidebar of this blog.

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