Disney Idea Generator Matt Buchanan brainstorms around Star Wars Weekend events – with a very special guest.

When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage. You’re looking to get answers, understand concepts and explore. The next frontier in search is to understand real-world things and the relationships among them. So we’re building a Knowledge Graph: a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they’re connected to one another. [...]

Embedly have kindly shared some internal data on how many of the URLs they process contain Facebook’s Open Graph semantic metadata. It’s massive. They show that nearly half of all their traffic is enriched with this additional semantics – an impressive amount considering that the initial Open Graph released in 2010 was limited to the [...]

What happens when all the things we based our icons on don’t exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery? Floppy Disk – Save Save? Save where? You know, down there. Adding the Arrow to the 3.5″ floppy makes me smile. Is it pointing to under my desk? [...]

Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday a redesign of its Bing Web-search engine that incorporates more information from social networks such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., another step in the company’s campaign to chase market-leading Google Inc. Microsoft’s redesign of Bing splits up the familiar page of Web-search results into three columns. The latest version of Bing, [...]

You want to ditch your shoelaces. We know and feel your pain. Laces come undone and get filthy, you step on them and trip, and you’ve spent countless hours tying and untying them. Shoelaces have been around since about 3500 BC – technology has improved almost everything else and yet here we are still, with [...]

Video sketch exploring new ways of interacting with media across multiple devices. Via ishback