The Future of TV
Posted: January 13, 2010 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »With 3D TV being the standout at this years CES ’10, I wonder if the more practical widget frameworks end up being this year’s real break out. 3D is big budget and requires massive change at all levels, while widgets require change, but primarily at the cable box or the TV. All of the services I have tried so far, Xbox, Boxee, Wii, Yahoo widgets are missing context. I am looking for an integrated experience, something simple and powerful like pause and rewind on the DVR.
The big question for me is what kind of overlay, second screen service is going to deliver that must have feature.
I do not think stream style interfaces on the primary screen are going to work, but maybe on the second screen (apple tablet).
Smaller transparent notifications on the primary screen might be interesting, but will most likely become noise. Maybe personal popups for Q and A. Using a smart parser that understands the current program time code and the ability to answer natural language type questions like where are they, actor bio, or tell me more about this scene. I can see myself asking those questions on a regular basis if it was seamless and possible voice activated.
Thoughts?
Real Time vs PageRank
Posted: November 20, 2009 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »Researching Google Chrome OS this afternoon helped me see the real time web in a new way. The sources referenced in the real time search appear to be very different then those of traditional web search.
I ran the search “Google Chrome OS” on Google and restricted the search to the past hour.
I ran the same search on OneRiot “Google Chrome OS”.
The two biggest differences were the ads and the content sources. I am going to focus on the content sources for this article.
- Google’s sources in order:
- News DD
- telegraph.co.uk
- Nillabyte.com
- Computerworld Australia
- General Search Results
- PCMag
- Telegraph.co.uk
- Inquisitr.com
- News DD
- OneRiot’s sources in order:
- Engadget
- YouTube
- Googleblog
- Techcrunch
As you dig deeper into the first and second page of results on both engines it becomes clear that PageRank style search engines like Google rank traditional publishers higher, while real time search engines rank blogs, and videos higher.
What are your finding?
Defining Real Time
Posted: November 10, 2009 Filed under: Realtime, Search 1 Comment »The real time web is getting hotter with every day. Web properties like Twitter and Facebook are leading the charge. While credit has to be given to these companies the infrastructure for real time has been quietly building momentum over the past 20 years. Things like GPS, Doppler Radar, design patterns, black board systems, video on demand, networking, multi-threaded applications, sensors and multiple core processors are really at the heart of this overnight revelation.
Real Time Search
Searching the real time Web is quickly becoming a big issue. If we look to the leaders in the space, Googles Matt Cutts for example talks about Google’s approach to twitter in the video below.
People are starting to wonder if the concepts of Universal web search can be extended to incorporate the signals of the real time web? Before diving into that question, let’s review: what real time actual means, some of the signals being exposed by the real time Web, and how they might be captured.
Real time computing is not about processing things that happen now, instead it is about operational deadlines and predictability. This means something that changes once an hour if that is its defined deadline can be considered real time. Not what you expected I bet, but how often things change is an interesting angle to look at the real time Web. The graph below breaks real time web data/signals into 3 categories and maps whether the data should be captured implicitly or explicitly.
Part 1 of 2.
AT&T, Verizon and the IPhone
Posted: November 8, 2009 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »Reports are starting emerge that Verizon is going to get the IPhone in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2010. Deadlines are a great motivator for startups, but I wonder if a company like AT&T can turn it around.
If this rumor is true, here is my advice to AT&T. Hire a group of entrepreneurs instead of McKinsey. You have an amazing opportunity, don’t blow it.
I will give you a few ideas for free, if you would like more ask:
- fix the locations with biggest cluster of tech people first
- change your strategy on transparency
- create a new campaign that leverages the people that influence, make them more famous
Good Luck AT&T, I have no reason not to cheer for you. I just want my IPhone to work, let’s go kick Verizons @$s.
If my facebook identity goes away, do i exist
Posted: November 6, 2009 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »I tried to log into facebook this afternoon, nothing. I tried facebook.com/robertreich nothing, I tried facebook.com/bdnewtech something.
Ok, the site is live, but where am I. Do I exist, if Facebook will not display my profile?
Segmenting Spiders Might Help Control Them
Posted: October 21, 2009 Filed under: Real Time, Realtime, Search, Spiders Leave a comment »Traditional web search engines maintain duplicate copy’s of the internet. They accomplish this by deploying armies of spiders to attack websites at regular intervals. These attacks consume your websites resources.
Techniques and algorithms can be used to minimize load and play fair, but as a site owner you have to decide how much of today’s resources you are willing to allocate to support a possible request tomorrow.
This is where real time search is different; services like OneRiot do not keep replicas of the complete Internet around just in case someone asks. They do not even crawl your website instead they fetch specific pages people think are interesting now. This means the resource load on your website is tiny and directly tied to real traffic patterns.
Grouping real time search with traditional web search does not make sense and it actually minimizes your websites ability to get traffic today. I would like to propose a new identification scheme, one that clearly identifies the type of service accessing your website. This way website owners can throttle with knowledge rather lumping all search engines into a single bucket.
Thoughts?
is it realtime?
Posted: June 30, 2009 Filed under: Search 2 Comments »What is it:
- Real time
- Realtime
- Real-time
- realtime
- real time
- real-time
Someone please clarify, which realtime is the correct one? I am wasting our natural resources by monitoring all of the different ways someone can spell real time. According to the article “The environmental impact of Google searches” “performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle or about 7g of CO2 per search”.
Help me save the planet.
OneRiot Predicts American Idol Winner
Posted: May 21, 2009 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »As I walked into the house tonight my kids were watching American Idol and my son informed me that Adam was going to win. I said Ethan, I know he is your favorite but I disagree. According to the analysis done at OneRiot this week Kris was the winner.
He said no way and asked if I wanted a jellybean. The jellybean container actually has two snakes that jump out upon opening. I said no thank you.
Visit the OneRiot Blog to see how they predicted the winner or to search the realtime web visit OneRiot.com.
Bring on the noise bring on the notification fatigue
Posted: April 21, 2009 Filed under: Search Leave a comment »How do I gain control of my online social life:
I have the Seesmic desktop client running with 7 twitter accounts ranging from 10 to 1000′s of followers plus several active searches. The thing is out of control and requiring my full attention. The concept that twitter is a one way communication is just not true it’s like Facebook, IM or email, certain posts require a response and most are looking for a very timely reply.
I have given up on IM for the time being, I check Facebook and linkedin at least once a day and my email client is always active and taking up way to much space.
What should I do, if I want to be responsive to those who need or want my attention?
The Real Time Web is changing how I consume information
Posted: April 2, 2009 Filed under: Search 1 Comment »OneRiot released a vertical search engine today, focused on twitter URL’s.
The OneRiot beta search engine that has been available for a few months uses implicitly captured URL’s, while the OneRiot Twitter Search uses URL’s that are explicitly entered by twitter users. The content overlap is fascinating.
I ran a search for G20 at 9:47am:
- Google’s number one result is navigational, followed by News
- Search.Twitter has opinions and comments
- OneRiot Web search has News and Fashion
- Oneriot.Twitter.Search has news
The other real interesting fact for me is time. I ran my test search for G20 again at 10.10am:
- Google had no change
- Search twitter had 641 new updates
- OneRiot had replaced it’s number one result and lost the fashion reference
- OneRiot.Twitter.Search had 4 new updates
The Real Time Web is changing how I consume information.
I included screen shots of my results, and I would highly recommend trying the different engines to see the difference.
Google.com:
Search.Twitter.com
OneRiot.com
twitter.oneriot.com
