SOA.WRK.
Bing, Wave, and Natal!!!
Googly Microsoft...
I am using Bing for almost two days and like it very much. In Web 1.0 days, I spent several years working on a vertical search start-up. Some of the concepts we prototyped then were similar to features now explored by Bing. Great work!! It is nice to see Microsoft moving on the right track this time. The only problem Bing has now is the lacking of data to show. At the minimum, before open for business, they should have crawled and indexed all Wikipedia family of sites completely to avoid the kind of problem I found... a single result from Bing which does not even match the search term "googly".
A Microsofty Google?
Also looked at Google's Wave for a while. For some reasons, Wave feels more like a traditional Microsoft project than Google's. Personally, I am not sure the concept shown in Wave will work.
Project of the year!!!
The most exciting project for me so far this year is Microsoft's Project Natal. I watched the demo video over and over again many times. This technology will greatly expand the future directions of Man-Machine communication. It will be incredible if someone can bring integrated voice recognition and 3D motion tracking, without Wii-like remote controls, to a price point available for consumer products. I am not sure Natal is ready for production yet. In the video, I found some indications of lagging between the display and player's action as shown in images below (watch the player on the right):
Posted at 10:57PM Jun 02, 2009 by tientienli in Personal |