http://www.ist-chorus.org/rss/news.xml This is the RSS feed of the IST-CHORUS News Section 10/4/2008 7:22:40 AM en-uk http://www.ist-chorus.org/_news_RTF/vitalas_nem_summit_08.asp http://www.ist-chorus.org/_news_RTF/vitalas_nem_summit_08.asp 10/13/2008 [CDATA[The 2008 NEM Summit "Towards Future Media Internet" is a major conference and exhibition devoted to the field of Networked and Electronic Media and ICT at large. During this event, which this year will take place on October 13-15 in Saint-Malo, France, the VITALAS project will present its first multimedia search engine prototype.]] 9/29/2008 [CDATA[The fifth chorus workshop on socio-economic challenges (Sevilla 29th & 30th September)is approaching. ]] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/23/pixsy-opens-up-embed-feature-for-all/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/23/pixsy-opens-up-embed-feature-for-all/ 9/23/2008 [CDATA[Last year, media search platform Pixsy was in the news for forming a strategic partnership with Veoh, which would let the company play Pixsy videos directly in the page with the help of Pixsy"s new embed feature. (From Techcrunch by Don Reisinger)]] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/21/why-the-google-yahoo-ad-deal-is-something-to-fear/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/21/why-the-google-yahoo-ad-deal-is-something-to-fear/ 9/21/2008 [CDATA[Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google//Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there"s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products.(From Techcrunch by Michael Arrington)]] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/searchme-launches-visual-search-engine-for-mobile-devices/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/searchme-launches-visual-search-engine-for-mobile-devices/ 9/18/2008 [CDATA[Searchme is starting to focus much of its time in the mobile space. Last week, it said it will launch an iPhone app and today it announced that it has launched a visual search engine for mobile devices that can be accessed by surfing to the company"s mobile page.( From Techcrunch by Don Reisinger )]] http://websearch.about.com/b/2008/09/17/google-audio-indexing.htm#comments http://websearch.about.com/b/2008/09/17/google-audio-indexing.htm#comments 9/17/2008 [CDATA[Google has announced they've started audio indexing, or searching within videos for spoken words so YOU, as the searcher, can find exactly what you're looking for and when it happens.(From About.com:Web Search by Wendy Boswell)]] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/powerset-the-neutered-version/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/powerset-the-neutered-version/ 9/17/2008 [CDATA[Microsoft promises that this is just the beginning of the integration with the recently acquired Powerset, but incorporating better Wikipedia clips into Live Search is a far cry from the original promise of the next generation search startup: true natural language search. (From techcrunch by Michael Arrington )]] http://altsearchengines.com/2008/09/16/search-the-actual-video-not-its-title/ http://altsearchengines.com/2008/09/16/search-the-actual-video-not-its-title/ 9/16/2008 [CDATA[Let"s make this clear, folks. Text comprises basically 26 pieces of information jumbled together in specific patterns to convey information. Videos, on the other hand, are millions upon millions of pieces of information smushed together for the same purpose. Compared to the latter, a search for the former seems almost childish. (From Alt Search Engines)]] http://www.pandia.com/sew/718-scour-interview.html http://www.pandia.com/sew/718-scour-interview.html 9/16/2008 [CDATA[Social search is upon us: A new brand of search engines is taking shape right now. In July we covered Scour, a new social meta search engine that encourages voting and commentary on its query results. In order to give you a glimpse behind the scenes of a social search engine in the making, we have interviewed Scour CEO Dan Yomtobian.(From Pandia search engine)]] http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4753389.ece http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4753389.ece 9/15/2008 [CDATA[Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore. (From Times on line by Murad Ahmed) ]]