My first magazine article just came out in IEEE Multimedia:
ZoneTag’s Collaborative Tag Suggestions: What is This Person Doing in My Phone?
Mor Naaman and Rahul Nair
Yahoo!
A huge thanks to my co-author Mor for both the paper and the title of this blog post :-).… Read the rest
Our paper titled “World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections” just won the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JDCL 2007. A big thanks to my co-authors Shane Ahern, Mor Naaman and Jeannie Yang for all their help in both building the system and writing the paper – it was a great joint effort. You can read the paper, see the demo or look at my slides below.
Judith Bush has a report about my presentation as well.… Read the rest
UPDATE: Since Yahoo! has shut down may of the services that Trip Tracker relied upon I have replaced the live links with some real example images that I captured over the years.
Trip tracker is a quick hack that I created using the FireEagle location platform from Yahoo! Research Berkeley and is designed to convery a quick summary or what I’m doing during my summer holiday. The first part is a badge image (above) that shows you some quick summary about my current location. It shows you the following things
Location: A map tile of my location which zooms appropriately based on the accuracy of the available location.… Read the rest
The following is a post I wrote for the YRB blog. My readers get the bonus YouTube footage directly embedded on the page 🙂
A few weeks ago when the research community was looking at CHI, Formula 1 racing fans were looking at Germany to watch a very different event. Nick Heidfeld was driving a F1 car around the famed Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit in Germany. “The Green Hell” as it is popularly known is one of the toughest race tracks on the planet and last hosted an F1 race back in 1976 when Niki Lauda’ near fatal crash put an end to F1 at the track.… Read the rest
A short video about life and work at YRB. Includes demos of some cool projects as well as a glimpse of the unique Berkeley lifestyle.
Check out the original blog post on Yodel Anecdotal by Bradley.
[tags]video, YRB, Yahoo! Research Berkeley, life, PR[/tags]… Read the rest