Funny that. When I was in New York I kept seeing this huge monument of a tall lady with a spiky headdress, holding a torch. No idea what it was called. :-)
Enjoy your climb Fred. It's not quite high enough for "spectacular views of the city". For that, you should go up Calton Hill nearby (couple of hundred yards from where you took that photo) or of course the castle.
Jenilia
· 1 year ago
Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Lazy, because only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code – thus avoiding redundancy, the enemy of software maintenance and flexible refactoring. Mostly, the tools and processes that come out of this endeavor fired by laziness will speed up the production. ------------------ Jenilia New York Treatment Centers
If it's fast enough, you could become a tour guide without having to do any work.
Well, not quite. This method would have told me about the Chagall mosaic my friend took me to in Chicago, but it wouldn't have gotten me there in the first place. The "guide" part of the experience, eh?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
You are right about that
Geoff
· 1 year ago
Would have loved to pop up to Leeds to hear your talk. Not possible due to prior family commitments. The web really needs a way of keeping track when and where folks are giving talks.
Chi-chi Ekweozor
· 1 year ago
Looking forward to hearing your talk later today. One of the few making it across the Penines from Manchester.
Imran Ali
· 1 year ago
Hey Fred, I think Yahoo's Berkeley R&D labs did something similar a couple years ago called 'Zonetag' (http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/)
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Neat. I'll check it out
bijan
· 1 year ago
shazam for photos.
i love that idea.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Hopefully someone will do it and then come show it to us and ask us to invest in it!
Robert Seidman
· 1 year ago
It seems to me that just as a result of this post and this comment the chances of this *not* happening are asymptotically approaching zero.. I see a follow-up "new in our portfolio" post linking back to this one in the near future. If so, between that and Brett Favre, it's an especially good time to be you ; )
Sean Ammirati
· 1 year ago
Fred,
You should also consider wikinear which (when allowing FireEagle to know your location) solves the same use case -- http://wikinear.com/ Basically, it shows you relevant articles in wikipedia based on where you are.
Thanks, Sean
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
That's sweet
Anne Johnson
· 1 year ago
re : your title on Flickr .. Scott Monument, not Scott Memorial. Edinburgh looks gray and cool. Pity not to get any time to look around - this is the height of the Festival and Fringe season - great art exhibitions, a huge variety of music, a book festival, comedy, etc .. many thousands of events.
Anne (who used to live there, and looks forward to going back)
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
If there's one thing I got from my short visit to edinburgh was a desire to come back
Mark Bean
· 1 year ago
"hopefully to introduce him to the emerging technology ecosphere of the North of England." Funniest thing I have read all day, Fred. I am originally from Bradford - 10 miles away from Leeds but moved to California due to a distinct lack of said 'ecosphere'. Best thing about Leeds is Harvey Nichols.
Imran Ali
· 1 year ago
Perhaps you find that funny Mark - but I'd like to disavow you of your prejudice. I'm also from Bradford and have had a successful career for over a decade working in tech startups between London, Yorkshire, Boston and San Francisco. I'm doing things to help extend those opportunities to others. Cynical sniping at the efforts of others trying to make a difference isn't helpful.
Drop me an email - I'll be happy to illustrate how the region is transforming itself and the historical contribution it has made to the internet industry.
nav
· 1 year ago
Shazam for photos sounds awesome : Ideally a mash-up concept between Microsoft's Photosynth and Riya/Like?
campden
· 1 year ago
Fred - I am VC in London. I was presented to by http://www.snapnow.com/corp/Company_evryx.html, the CEO whom we know quite well. Your comment reminded me of them. They have some fascinating technology. The 'shazam for images' idea has all manner of potential applications. Happy to make an introduction.
Love the "Shazam for pictures" idea. A few thoughts on that: 1- The end game is a sensible picture correlation engine and a Google bank of advertisers through images...match made in heaven, but not there today. 2- The industry has 3 stabs (to the best of my knowledge) at it. The first is direct image correlation (www.mobot.com). But I believe in the lack of having tons of Google power from advertisers on their side, they look like a Bangalore shop of human correlators for 10 campaigns. (no offense Mobot) The second is code scanning. Check this out (http://amir4.blogspot.com/2007/06/freedom-trail...). I was working for a company in this space and we mapped the Boston freedom trail. clearly this could extend to any other field (shopping etc.). I think though that the human behavioral change to understand and use codes is challenging and eventually operators would love to kill it. The solution in between is stenography (human invisible code embedded in the image), however that one is highly dependent and sensitive to the image quality, which makes the user experience rather poor. I believe though, that Voda (http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/04/vodafone-a...) launched something like that not too long ago.
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Enjoy your climb Fred. It's not quite high enough for "spectacular views of the city". For that, you should go up Calton Hill nearby (couple of hundred yards from where you took that photo) or of course the castle.
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New York Treatment Centers
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguer...
Well, not quite. This method would have told me about the Chagall mosaic my friend took me to in Chicago, but it wouldn't have gotten me there in the first place. The "guide" part of the experience, eh?
i love that idea.
You should also consider wikinear which (when allowing FireEagle to know your location) solves the same use case -- http://wikinear.com/ Basically, it shows you relevant articles in wikipedia based on where you are.
Thanks,
Sean
Anne (who used to live there, and looks forward to going back)
Funniest thing I have read all day, Fred. I am originally from Bradford - 10 miles away from Leeds but moved to California due to a distinct lack of said 'ecosphere'.
Best thing about Leeds is Harvey Nichols.
Drop me an email - I'll be happy to illustrate how the region is transforming itself and the historical contribution it has made to the internet industry.
Your comment reminded me of them. They have some fascinating technology. The 'shazam for images' idea has all manner of potential applications. Happy to make an introduction.
http://www.SnapNow.co.uk/what_is_it.html
A few thoughts on that:
1- The end game is a sensible picture correlation engine and a Google bank of advertisers through images...match made in heaven, but not there today.
2- The industry has 3 stabs (to the best of my knowledge) at it.
The first is direct image correlation (www.mobot.com). But I believe in the lack of having tons of Google power from advertisers on their side, they look like a Bangalore shop of human correlators for 10 campaigns. (no offense Mobot)
The second is code scanning. Check this out (http://amir4.blogspot.com/2007/06/freedom-trail...). I was working for a company in this space and we mapped the Boston freedom trail. clearly this could extend to any other field (shopping etc.). I think though that the human behavioral change to understand and use codes is challenging and eventually operators would love to kill it.
The solution in between is stenography (human invisible code embedded in the image), however that one is highly dependent and sensitive to the image quality, which makes the user experience rather poor. I believe though, that Voda (http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/04/vodafone-a...) launched something like that not too long ago.
(and every other kind of RSS feed i.e.: http://www.facesaerch.com/facesearch/?q=http://... )