Friday, December 31, 2010

LiveMocha

LiveMocha provides an internet tool of learning languages. I have not tried it yet. But it looks great. I will add more thoughts later.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

A Search Engine That Relies on Humans

The New York Times
Bits: A Search Engine That Relies on Humans
Published: February 5, 2010
Aardvark, a social search company, is developing a new paradigm for Web searches that taps into social networks, not automated formulas, to provide answers to queries.


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/a-search-engine-that-relies-on-humans/

Humans, Web, and Future

Three words are recurring when I think about the future. Our life will not be told without web. The experience of web will be the social network, thus life environment. To note that perspective, I think of a word, webcology. I will write anything related to web influence on life at present and in future, such as educational technology, social search, digital library, emerging technology, and so on.