Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have plugged in to Flickr to create a database of over 6 million images tagged with geographic and text information. Using their software, they could take a random picture and identify where it was taken, give or take 200km, at a rate 18 times better than chance.

To get a computer to approximate this capability, the authors needed to provide it with a large database of outdoor scenes that have geographic information associated with them. That's where Flickr came in. At the time of the research, it…

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The true power of a GPS device is finding where youre going next. And if Steve Jobs demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be scared [expletive-]less.?

• LAB & ROAD TEST: 5 New GPS Units Go Head-to-Head

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A through F grades for the top 25 major US newspapers based on: 1) strength of content, 2) ease of use and navigation, 3) use of new web technology including comments sections, message boards, and multimedia, 4) lay-out 5) presence of a strong set of current advertisers, and 6) the size of their audiences

The most important conclusion from this review of online newspaper sites is how uneven the quality is from property to property. Some of the smaller papers which probably have modest resources have done an extremely good job of engaging readers,…

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Helps teams enforce a common set of best practices for layout, readability, maintainability, and documentation of C# source code.

I would find it very helpful if it was configurable. I work for various clients and each has their own coding standards and conventions that they dictate to me and the development team here. It would be great to associate a project with a…

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Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that’s compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X’ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X.

Marketing Has To Change: Because Gen Y is media savvy and conscious of being marketed to, brands that succeed in the future will be those that open a dialog with their customers, admit their mistakes, and essentially become more transparent…

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Dying?

Nobody knows how committed Facebook is to improving the platform or the role applications are meant to play in the overall Facebook ecosystem. Signals like the reduced level of direct participation in the developer community, increasingly…

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Enormously powerful online visualization software and community, which allows you to create and share custom interactive data visualizations in a wide variety of types.

Featured Topic Hubs (dive into a topic of interest, or create a hub of your own)

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Wondering how much your private company is worth? (Or your stock options in your private company?) Curious where your company ranks in the pantheon of digital market values? Wondering which companies might be next in line for a blockbuster IPO? Then you've come to the right place

AcknowledgmentsBefore moving on to the initial list, we want to thank the hundreds of companies, investors, and executives who have taken time over the past few months to submit nominations and share information with us. Thanks also to our…

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If youre interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - heres some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

There are plenty of things you can look at such as average time it takes for a user to click on a link, a user’s hesitation on clicking a link, hover to click ratio, and much more. It also provides detailed reports and charts on your…

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A superb showcase of social network analysis maps from FAS.research.

Fas is making connections, from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C.

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Why China has as many IP addresses as an American university, which ISP should be called “Spamalot,” and more.

Information moving through cyberspace travels in tiny packets that hopscotch around the world. Using data from a two-week stretch in April 2005, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) traced these packets'…

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A hilarious look at how rumors get started for new Apple Products

The editors of popular Mac magazines hail the new device as the next great step toward our utopian digital future. Wired News runs exclusive interviews with the Apple design team. Fortune publishes another glowing fluff piece about Steve Jobs,…

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