To answer this question, Leander Kahney met Chris Cleveland. He's CEO of Dieselpoint, a search software company based in Chicago which worked with Pyra last year to develop a search engine for Blogger.
"We worked on this project for a couple of months and everything seemed to be going pretty well until about January when communication stopped," said Cleveland. "Now I know why."
Cleveland said Google's acquisition of Pyra would, quite simply, help Google create a more accurate search engine by adding rich new sources of data gleaned from weblogs.
He added that Google would integrate its secret PageRank algorithms with RSS feeds created by bloggers, which are inherently full of links.
Cleveland said Google will likely use Blogger to develop sophisticated searches that utilize the rich metadata inherent in the RSS feeds from weblogs: who wrote what and when, what it linked to, what linked to it and its level of popularity with Web surfers.
Well, I guess we'll have to wait a while to know for sure what are Google's projects about Blogger.
Source: Leander Kahney, Wired News, February 22, 2003
This is the weekend, so it's time to see a movie. But with the help of Pocket PC Films, a Californian company, you don't have to go to the theater. You just need your PDA, according to this CIO Magazine's story, "Now Playing -- Anytime, Anywhere."
Darrell Griffin and his business partner devised a technology to compress filmed content from CD-ROMs into a format PDAs could display. Then in November 2001, Griffin helped launch Pocket PC Films, in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to distribute video content for Pocket PC and Palm OS devices. Film fans can buy CD-ROM titles, load them on their computer and sync them into their handheld device.
Here is what it looks like.
Pocket PC Films now distributes 25,000 titles, priced from $9.99 to $49.99, that run the gamut from 1941's King of the Zombies to Oliver Stone's more recent Natural Born Killers. The company also provides self-help and business-oriented content, as well as classic TV packs with shows like Dragnet and the Sports Illustrated's "Swimsuit 2002" special -- the most popular title so far.
I have a hard time imagining someone watching a 2-hour film on such a small screen. But here is Pocket PC Films movie store if you're interested.
Source: Megan Santosus, CIO Magazine, February 15, 2003 Issue
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