Structural Vs Organic: the Search paradigm!
We all kneel to Google search paradigm. The paradigm is based on the study of the relational structure between pages that is created by the complex network of links.
The idea came to Larry when he mapped (in his mind) hyperlinks to citations and web-pages to peer-reviewed papers.
The Long Tail
The Long Tail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ok, this is the most interesting concept discovered this week. Re-coined by Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson, the long tail tells a long story about what's happening in business models, markets, and uncovers new market niches.
WebTop Vs On-A-StickTop
As a good friend of mine introduced me recently to TiddlyWiki, stormy winds blown my spirits away: an alternate competitor to the webtop! An On-A-StickTop! Indeed, with the flourishing of cheap high storage capacity usb flash drives, one may virtually carry around its own personal documents, and the
Google Query Engine: proof of concept
Have you ever heard of the Google Query engine? Of course you have; or at least you have already experienced it in some other way.
Ideas to develop
It is quite easy to embed special html code that allows you to plug-in videos (youtube, google), photos (picasaweb, flickr), audio (gmail, odeo) in blogs and wikis.
Wind action on a water column creates the Ekman spiral
This image shows the current intensity and direction along a water column when forced by a constant wind.
This was some of my early works as a phd student at Maretec. Eventually this work led to MOHID vertical unidimensional hydrodynamic model (http://www.mohid.com).