Ooyala reminds me of riya.com where there was a great effort to tag images on the web…Similar to riya where experts in the field are going to develop video search software. Would be interested to see how it pans out Via What Ooyala is Up To : The company has hired six experts in computer vision, who’ve developed a way to catalog various objects within a video. When a viewer clicks on a football highlight featuring Patriots' QB Tom Brady , for example, Ooyala’s technology will know it is him and will bring up relevant information (this could be anything from links to products Brady sponsors, his statistics, or maybe a message board where fans can discuss his latest exploits).

Pagerank algo is being used by a hospital , objective - to cut down infections!! Via : Google tool could search out hospital superbugs Our new model is based very much on the way Google has achieved number one status among search engines," he explains. “When [Google’s] spiders crawl the web they build up a connectivity matrix of links between pages.” Node search Shepherd’s idea is to build a similar matrix describing all interactions between people and objects in a hospital ward, based on observing normal daily activity.

I was working on my univ’s website for the past 48 hours as it needed a revamp . Output is not that bad I guess. Here is the link to the site where it is hosted temporarily - Site

An inspiring talk by IsabelAllende http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf

Concept arbitrage : Nice word for applying Ctrl+C and Ctr+V to webapps