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Four and counting
My annual domain renewal notice came through reminding me that it’s been four years since I started this little experiment. After a short intro, the first post in anger covered Netflix’s $1m prize to anyone that could improve their recommendation algorithm by 10%. Indeed it took nigh on three years for someone to do so, … Continue reading
Mariah Carey-Oke
With an awful pun worthy of this blog, UMG are releasing an iPhone app, Mariah Carey-Oke. Fans get to sing along to four of the her songs and are awarded points if they match her vocals – Singstar in an app, an interesting way to tie in the iPhone’s microphone functionality. In addition, the app … Continue reading
Martin Schaedel remembered
It was with great sadness that I learned of the tragic death in a plane crash of the ball of energy and ideas that was Martin Schaedel. I played a small part on his journey to internet celebrity, giving him what I believe was his first ever job. as described in the article in the … Continue reading
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Breaking News the game
Now I’ve seen it all, with MSNBC’s NewsBreaker, news for the addicted gamer (or easily bored). They have taken the classic brickbreaker game and added a news twist. During the game, news stories are released by knocking out certain bricks, with the headlines drifting down, before aligning themselves in a right-hand column. Click on a headline and … Continue reading
Out of the sandbox onto the web
Up to a couple of weeks ago very few visitors were coming through to this site from the search engines. In fact it took a couple of months for Google (MSN Search and Yahoo were more accommodating) to even offer up the site as a result for a direct search on ‘TechnoCloud’. I’ve semi-dilligently built … Continue reading
Inside the TechnoCloud
Welcome to to the TechnoCloud blog where we’ll be discussing news, trends and developments in Media Technology.
