http://grabka.org/internet grad school would be great if it wasn't for the research and poverty. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:33:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As of May 14, 2008 Facebook is available in a variety of languages, not the least of which is Polish. I really appreciate how community-supported the whole translation process was: More than 450 Polish-speaking users on Facebook chose to be part of the effort to translate the site from English ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/52/using-facebook-in-polish/ Introducing Flickr Search Tagging! It's a little utility that enables a couple of things: Let's you to propose tags for images that don't belong to you on Flickr. Contributing tags if you want to help describe the image is often not possible, unless: you're the owner, you're a contact of the owner, ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/49/flickr-search-tagging-first-alpha-release/ Sometime around when I was 14 years old the World Wide Web showed up. and it seems that I have been developing with it ever since. So never, ever did I expect to be as lost on the Internet as I currently am: it feels like the one domain ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/47/re-learning-the-internet/ 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, ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/45/how-google-is-advancing-the-state-of-image-search/ 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 ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/44/how-to-get-invited-to-web-2x-betas/ Courtesy of friend who runs My Yacht is Too Big: you can get a free Angus burger at Harveys before April 28th, 2008. Image from Photobucket. Blogged with the Flock Browser http://grabka.org/internet/2008/43/free-angus-burger-at-harveys/ I'm trying to wrap my head around all of the information I'm reading about image search. Search, retrieval, information, data, all of these terms are loaded, and used differently depending on whether I'm reading an HCI paper, a text analysis paper, or a blog post about search engine ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/35/defining-the-human-context-for-search-and-retrieval/ In the next few weeks tuition for Graduate students at the University of Guelph is probably going to go up again. As a student, this obviously bothers me. What is that, 14% in three years? 120% in the last 12 years? Since many of us know the tuition increase ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/32/graduate-tuition-guelph-vs-usa/ I've been using Last.fm to track my listening habits for a few years now, and decided to take a look at what I've been listening to. You can use Last.fm to track things you listen to in iTunes, Rhythmbox, Winamp, BBC Radio, whatever. Check out their website for a ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/26/tracks-of-the-year-apparently/ The University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA), the union for faculty on campus, is in a legal strike position on Friday, March 14th, at 12:01am (press release). They've been negotiating a new agreement with the University Administration for about 18 months now, and haven't reached something amicable yet. It's tough ... http://grabka.org/internet/2008/19/faculty-strike-what-about-gtas/