Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links. Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today.
The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that the words describe. Knowledge Graph? “Graph” is a technical term used to describe how a set of objects are connected. Google has used a “link graph” to model how pages link to each other, in order to help determine which are popular and relevant for particular searches. Big Change, Subtle Appearance Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal wrote about the coming change. Big change, but I don’t think it’ll be a shocking change to most Google users who will begin seeing it over the coming days on Google.com, if they’re searching in US English. Google will still look largely the same as it does now. Fact Surfing 3.5 Billion Facts About 500 Million Objects. Biz Stone launches Jelly, a service for crowdsourcing answers from your soc.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has finally pulled back the curtain on his secretive startup, Jelly. In a blog post, he described it as a service that works with people’s existing social networks and is designed to search the “group mind” to better help what goes around, comes around — basically to enable you to pay it forward. Through its iOS and Android apps, Jelly uses photos and people from your social networks to get you answers.
Stone hypothesizes that you might be out and take a photo of a bird and wonder what it is. Through Jelly, it will pull knowledge from your friends and their friends to help you decipher what kind of bird it is. It’s aimed at helping to create a more “empathetic” world. While much of this appears similar to something you’d get out of Quora, Klout’s Cinch, or any other Q&A service, Jelly’s appeal may be its usage of photos. Users can scroll through the various questions posed from their friends and also provided responses. Jelly was named after the jellyfish. DoorBot Lets You Answer The Door When You're Not Home By @kenrya. DoorBot Lets You Answer The Door When You're Not Home By @kenrya.
Unless you live in a doorman building or your house is located in a theft-free neighborhood, the downside of online shopping--especially during the holidays--is the fear that your packages might get swiped. For most of us, the new DoorBot is the doorman-slash-security-camera we've always wanted. Sleek and wireless, it easily attaches to your home and uses low-voltage Wi-Fi to beam live video of whoever rings your doorbell directly to your phone so you can see who’s there and communicate with them intercom-style. "Usually, when I tell my wife about my invention ideas, she correctly tells me they are bad," says Jamie Siminoff, chief inventor for the company. "Then one night I showed her my idea for the DoorBot, and she told me that I did not just reinvent the doorbell, but I gave her the feeling of having gates on the house for a fraction of the price.
Now when I travel, she can answer the door from a comfortable, safe area in the house. " [Image courtesy of DoorBot] For 25 Years, The Answer Has Been Mazda Mia. This is Jalopnik.
It's a site for car enthusiasts. That's why one of the cars we're most enthusiastic about is the Mazda Miata. You may not think it's the right car for you, but you'd be wrong. It isn't peer pressure, but there are plenty of people here who can explain why it's the perfect car for every occasion. Today was the Miata's 25th birthday, and Mazda issued a fitting tribute to their beloved roadster. However, aztec1 had an even better story to go with this special day: By March of 2013, there was so much Miata talk on Jalopnik. The guy selling it was a very busy person, he scheduled a lot of people to come look at it at the same time at a mall. He looked over at me as I accelerated onto the ramp. I bought it the next day.