I dont know when is the right time you can call a city ‘mine’. This is a city that you fall in love with, the moment you come here. It is a city that takes a lot from you but gives you even more.
A photo essay, over a period of a month.
Polaroid
Washington Square Park
Union Square
East River
Roosovelt Island
Queens
West 4 St
Upper West Side
China Town
Roosovelt Island
Brooklyn Bridge
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Downtown
53rd Street
Statue of Liberty
Soho
Manhattan
5th Ave
Brooklyn
5th Ave
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A peek into the future – Google’s Goggles
The way we search the web is set to be revolutionized by including methods such as image recognition in our search. The first steps seems to have been taken. Meet Google’s new visual search engine, Goggles which lets you search by using a image captured by your phone camera.
Already a working app on the Andriod, it would soon reach the iPhone app store and other smartphones. Till now search has worked by matching tags that describe the webpage. The intelligent algorithms then would scourge and give you the best possible results for your search. Taking this a step further, voice search converts words (input as voice) into text and then searches the web.
Image recognition works by matching features and not words, which would be a huge leap in search technology. These matches are than used to give descriptions and even matching to tags. As this is just the beginning, the potential applications and implication would be immense. The first steps seems to be taken by google, but if others get onto this bandwagon and combine it with query based searches, we would see a new leader emerge. And that would have Mountain View on its toes.
Lets wait and watch.
For more information go to http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark
I’ve been using Zipcar for about half a year now, and from day one they have had not only fantastic branding across all their platforms (the cars, website, mailers, happy hour meetups they arrange, and keycard used to unlock the car), they have also made using their service nearly effortless.
While it seems like it may have taken longer than expected for a hip, online company like Zipster, they finally came out with an iPhone app that is simply amazing. In brief, it can locate where you are, find the nearest Zipcar garages and/or specific cars, let you extend time you rent the car on the go, provide directions to return your car, give you one-touch access to Zipcar to report any problems, and perhaps the coolest, it lets you lock/unlock/honk the horn of the car you rent on the app.
Anyone with a Zipcar membership and an iPhone needs this app.
