This title is a quote form the Google blog relating unsurprising to the purchase of the service by reCAPTCHA by Google. This article has been prompted by the BBC’s program Digital Planet (Episode 29/09/2009 Podcast) which talks about the efforts of Google to digitise books.
The major criticism of the service is the inaccuracies in the [...]
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‘Google Aquires reCAPTCHA’
Different perspective
It is suggested by many that the use of sites like facebook, myspace and youtube all harm the productivity of firms. One article from the BBC suggests that it could be costing firms as much as £130 (approx. US$192.5) million per day and 223 million hours. This has led to many firms and other organisations such as schools [...]
US Election
Theres loads of data avaliable about who is going to win the US election will it be Obama or McCain. Well here’s an interesting idea.
This site uses data from pole to try and estimate which candidate is likely to win each state and offers datails for each individual state. More on they do it can [...]
10 Things you should know about Sarah Palin?
This is just one of many articles I’ve come across on the internet condemning Sarah Palin as a bad choice as McCain’s running mate and some even portraying her as a bad person?
What surprises me is the lack of pro-Palin literature I have come across. Whilst I’m sure it’s out there and is equally as [...]
It’s alright they wont do it again!
I heard this news on the BBC today (I can’t find the actual storuy on the BBC site. Sorry.) You can read the story now although I will rekay most of the facts below.
The story states how the US has release figure stating that this year it has released 11,000 Iraqi ‘detainees’.
Most were held without [...]
[OLD] TED
Recently I found out about something called T.E.D. (Technology, Entertainment Design)
TED describes itself as a “group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value”. Its lectures cover a broad set of topics including science, arts, politics, global issues, architecture, music and more.
Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_%28conference%29
They podcast bits from their conferences (you can get them [...]
[OLD] In the beginning…
Well this is the first post. It’s taken a while, it’s not my fault (well it is), the first time that I installed WordPress there were some technical problems and this is the first chance I’ve had to find a fix for the problem.
Anyway on to some actual content…
Earlier (whilst fixing the problem with wordpress) [...]
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