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Thumbtack
A single place to save or share the stuff you want from all around the web.
It's easier than sending a bunch of links in an e-mail, or setting several favorites in your browser. Thumbtack simplifies the process of saving and sharing photos, links, text and more.
Secure dynamic web applications through virtualization.
Modern Web pages are made up of different pieces that may be served from different locations--maps, mashups, ads and more. But what happens if some of those pieces slow page performance or even endanger users' personal information? That's where the Web Sandbox comes in.
Automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object.
Whether sharing or reliving a vacation destination or exploring a distant museum or landmark, Photosynth transforms regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience with a digital camera and your own creativity and inspiration.
Using machine learning to identify meaningful text in documents, we can turn the unstructured web into a rich set of tagged documents.
Restaurant reviews... Business addresses... People's Names... Phone numbers... Product descriptions...
The web is overflowing with descriptive information, but most content is not yet linked with outside applications. Highlight a restaurant address on any website, get a popup map. Or a book title in a blog post for reviews and prices from around the web. Add names and phone numbers from any email or webpage to your contacts with one click. It's all coming, and Entity Extraction is the enabling technology.
Thoughts:
*Thumbtack - sounds like a hard/drive storage space online allowing people to share files without having to email them. It sounds similar 'The student swap drive' at uni.
*Seadragon - sounds like a fast internet browser, what makes it special/different?
* Web Sandbox - seems to increase internet browsing speeds and protect users, how?
*Photo synth - creates 3d digital images from photo's. Sounds Similar to PhotoModuler. How many photo's are needed to recreate a scene? How acurate do these images have to be? How is the process affected by resolution, perspective distortion camera specifications? Is it easy to use/learn?
*Social Streams - Sounds like some sought of search engine similar to Google??? What is meant by social media content? Who uses it and for what purpose?
* Entity Extraction - Seems to be a program that links all information available on the internet to any other relative information. Could be useful for research, save time seasrching as every relative piece of information pops up. Potential problem - There is unlimited amounts of information on the internet and it is constantly growing. Clicking an a well documented subject would produce too much information, how do you structure it so it can be digested/used in a helpful way?