Introducing: Buzzingo.com
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Ruby on Rails proved to be my own time tunnel. I'm 9 years old again, sitting all night at my ZX Spectrum, hammering away on another program that will be ready soon.
Idea, program, run. No overhead. As simple as:
10 print "hello world! ";
20 go to 10
After hammering out http://bibli.ca a week or two ago, I have just deployed http://buzzingo.com, a cute mash up of Yahoo Buzz with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" concept. I like the results it generates so much.
With Google and Yahoo around, I am constantly reminded of 1970-1990 science fiction books and movies, where the "computer genius" sits at the futuristic computer, types in a question and gets an answer. "artificial intelligence" in action.
The future, I am happy to discover, is here. Intelligence is the grand total of enormously large number of simple unsophisticated things.
Buzzingo proves this - for Christina Applegate it refers you to IMDb - the movie database. For the legendary soccer player Pele`, it refers you to a popular soccer site. Does the computer "know" that Christina is a movie star, and pele a soccer player? For Tookie, it shows a picture of Snoop Dog. Wait. How come "the computer" know that Snoop and Took were rap buddies?
We grew accustomed to the fact that we could ask almost any question, in any language, click "Search" and get an natural language answer. Only 20 years ago this was considered science fiction, "artificial intelligence" pronounced dead.
But the human race have created something better: Hybrid intelligence. We are all Cyborgs. Resistance is futile. Google's (and Yahoo's) intelligence is the product of human and machine intelligence. Large scale parallel computer grids analysing human knowlege maps called links. Neurons and Electrons working together to make sure genes originating on this planet continue to reproduce long after Earth will die.
technorati tags: buzzingo, google, yahoo, buzz, internet, guy tavor, search, traffic, popular, terms, mashup, rubyonrails
Ruby on Rails proved to be my own time tunnel. I'm 9 years old again, sitting all night at my ZX Spectrum, hammering away on another program that will be ready soon.
Idea, program, run. No overhead. As simple as:
10 print "hello world! ";
20 go to 10
After hammering out http://bibli.ca a week or two ago, I have just deployed http://buzzingo.com, a cute mash up of Yahoo Buzz with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" concept. I like the results it generates so much.
With Google and Yahoo around, I am constantly reminded of 1970-1990 science fiction books and movies, where the "computer genius" sits at the futuristic computer, types in a question and gets an answer. "artificial intelligence" in action.
The future, I am happy to discover, is here. Intelligence is the grand total of enormously large number of simple unsophisticated things.
Buzzingo proves this - for Christina Applegate it refers you to IMDb - the movie database. For the legendary soccer player Pele`, it refers you to a popular soccer site. Does the computer "know" that Christina is a movie star, and pele a soccer player? For Tookie, it shows a picture of Snoop Dog. Wait. How come "the computer" know that Snoop and Took were rap buddies?
We grew accustomed to the fact that we could ask almost any question, in any language, click "Search" and get an natural language answer. Only 20 years ago this was considered science fiction, "artificial intelligence" pronounced dead.
But the human race have created something better: Hybrid intelligence. We are all Cyborgs. Resistance is futile. Google's (and Yahoo's) intelligence is the product of human and machine intelligence. Large scale parallel computer grids analysing human knowlege maps called links. Neurons and Electrons working together to make sure genes originating on this planet continue to reproduce long after Earth will die.
technorati tags: buzzingo, google, yahoo, buzz, internet, guy tavor, search, traffic, popular, terms, mashup, rubyonrails
