Author: Vince Kimball

The World's Information Desk

Web Techniques: The World's Information Desk. Q&A with Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology. Our goal is to make all the world's information available, not just that information that happens to be in HTML form. Supporting PDF was our first step towards expanding past HTML, and we plan to have others. [Tomalak's Realm]

The eyes have it

BBC News | SCI/TECH | The eyes have it. New research backs up the potential of automatic iris recognition as a security tool to replace keys and personal identification numbers (Pin). [Privacy Digest]

Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching

Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching. Gary Mosher proposes a “whatis” database for easier informative queries about domains. Whatis would include available site characteristics like news and discussion, that would make finding the type of site you want easier, and help researchers map the Net. 0810 [WebReference News]

Judges switch off Web surveillance

Judges switch off Web surveillance. From TheStandard.com: “Judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco are protesting the use of software within the federal court system that monitors Internet use on employee computers — including those of its judges.”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Untitled

Got back late Tuesday from a great trip to Philadelphia. Had never seen the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.

Tools

Matt Neuburg wrote docs on the Tools feature of Frontier and Radio. [Frontier News]

NEWS.COM

CNET NEWS.COM – Code Red hits Hotmail, FedEx servers. Microsoft has confirmed that some servers running its MSN Hotmail service were infected with a version of the Code Red worm, though it said no personal information was breached. A company representative said Thursday that a number of its servers were brought offline to deal with… Continue reading NEWS.COM