Article from the nytimes :

…On Thursday at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing, two Google scientists presented a paper describing what the researchers call VisualRank, an algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar.

Although image search has become popular on commercial search engines, results are usually generated today by using cues from the text that is associated with each image…..[full article here]

Damn…I would like to see that in real time :-)

If you use Gmail, you know that you can store about 6Gb of mails…well Gmail drive let’s you use it as a virtual drive.

Gmail drive is a small free app that you install on your pc. After installation you get a virtual drive on the computer where you can easily create folders and drag & drop files. Every file you upload also goes to your mailbox. Easy if you want to have your files available from everywhere or use it as backup.

MAC users can use gDisk

Source: TZine

If you have missed the 2008 hot trends, you can find them on Read/Write Web.
What I have noticed is that Mobile is in the list again, I have seen that a few times in there before but it never lifted off like it should (to me). Let’s see what it brings this year…

Source: Read/Write Web

Beam it up Scotty is a service that let’s you send any file to your mobile phone. Very handy if you want to transfer nice backgrounds, ringtones or images to you phone without using any cables or  if you want to send an excel file to somebody.

The service is free, only keep in mind that the mobile provider asks a fee to download files…

Source: TZine

Resize and send your digital photo images online in 3 easy steps! It’s free and It’s easy.

We can’t miss this one! Crusty built his own Web2.Oooh thingy :-)

What’s the best part about Christmas? Making Christmas lists not?? Well Wantz.it does it for you and it’s never been that easy. It leverages your Del.icio.us account to build up your wish list. Any bookmarks you submit to Del.icio.us with a “dowant” tag will be automatically added to your Wantz.it account. Simple.

Wantz.it itself is pretty cool, but the member pages end up looking like redzie.wantz.it. Easy not?

Nize job Crusty, if you have more idea’s like that…go ahead ;-)

Art2blog is going on holidays for 1 week to Bodrum. We’ll be back on October 4th. In mean time don’t stop reading our favourite colleagues. If you still have some holidays planned, check out Fasten Seatbelts where you can find the “Do’s and Don’ts” of the country you’re visiting.

We will certainly remember that:

• In Turkey, it is rude to show the sole of your shoe.
• In Turkey, the “OK” sign is very rude.
• In Turkey, in crowded busses (Dolmus), the way to pay for your ticket is to pass the money from passenger to passenger towards the bus driver.
• In various countries, you may be asked to remove your shoes before entering a home.

They couldn’t find a more stupid name but ok…Microsoft has offered a sneak peak at its upcoming Gatineau service, which will be a direct competitor to Google Analytics.

I already subscribed…let’s see what it gives…

Some more info and screenshots can be found here

Source: Mashable

WoW! Talking about branding …

The last few days it has been quiet…well…now you know why. I moved our blog to my own hosting.http://www.art2blog.be is the place to be now…I’ll make some more changes the coming days on the design but all credits go to Design Disease which created this great 3 column wordpress theme. Furthermore you don’t have to change your rss feed address, that stayed the same (http://feeds.feedburner.com/art2blog)!

Hope you enjoy…