Monthly Archives: April 2008

How Google is advancing the state of image search

If you’re interested in the state of the art of large domain (internet) image search, then undoubtedly Google comes up over and over again. Google Image Search, with its simple interface and reasonable results, is the de-facto consumer-grade image search engine. Offerings from competitors are actually a little more feature rich, especially the MSN Live …

April 30, 2008 – 22:11 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments

How to get invited to Web 2.x betas

It seems that the most interesting up-and-coming web applications go through a private, invitation-only beta phase before being launched to the public. This was certainly the case with Google Mail, the Yahoo! Mail do-over, and one service that I’m particularly interested in: grono.net. Unfortunately, none of my friends or relatives use that service, so getting …

April 28, 2008 – 00:19 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , | View Comments