“I’ll go before you and let you know how it is.”™
Answer: IBM is creating a machine personified by this name to compete on jeopardy!
Question: What is “Watson”?
Start-ups. Yeah. HARD WORK & HEADACHES. But like most things in life, if they pan out, then all the long hours with little pay and endless frustrations are worth it. Well, I came across this post on TechCrunch that regales a presentation that offers sage advice to start-up…. Umm… Starters. Since Virtual Seeds™ is all about the virtual world’s “beta utopia”
PC gaming Juggernaut Valve has a dream. That dream is to directly bridge the gap between game design studios and the players, cutting the publishers out of the scene. They describe a system where gamers can look at prospective games, pick the one they want and invest in it. In return they get a copy of the game and if it does well, a return on their investment.
The Pirate Bay has been a few things over the past couple of years, a harbor of torrents, an illegal downloading utopia, and most recently a political platform. However, with the recent selloff of the company, one of the worlds most infamous and viewed websites might be, for a lack of better words, a sinking ship.
Okay, I know, text talk is over, it’s been everywhere from Gossip Girl ads to Cingular commercials (you know, IDK My BFF Jill) and its even been lurking around local commercials. However, texting is definitely not dead.
Coming in to add a fresh breath to the SMS world is Texts From Last Night, which, are pretty much texts from last night.
I recently became aware of the GNOME Foundation through this interesting article on Ars Technica it’s the non-profit organization behind the open source GNOME desktop environment working to build bridges between the development community and companies.
GNOME’s CEO Stormy Peters recently gave a presentation where say championed open source development saying:
“open source software communities and the [...]
As if the actual overheard of running a business wasn’t enough, in today’s wired world businessmen have to take on social networking sites for self promotion, lurk on similar businesses websites to leverage their competition; research blogs for potential advertising spots and plug in 24/7 for the “next big thing” in social media [...]
Language gives us the ability to communicate our thoughts and ideas. Our complex linguistic systems give humans a distinct advantage over other species, allowing us to share ideas and collaborate to achieve goals. But, what happens when our vocabulary can not be updated fast enough to keep pace with technological and social changes that affect [...]
Tin Eye works like any standard search engine, except its for images. It’s called a reverse image search, so in case there’s a time that you need to look up the source of an image, or you’ve found something funny or viral on the web and always wondered about the origin of it, you can [...]
This can’t possibly be the first online custom service site offering tailor made clothing for professionals, but even if it isn’t, it’s probably the first affordable one. Virtual Seeds™ exams the discovery of new concepts that may very well grow from seeds to a garden, but only time will tell. Working alongside [...]