Technobabble Podcast – Episode 4

by anshul on 7/02/2011

The show hosts continue to surprise themselves by bringing out yet another episode of the technobabble podcast with Kiran, Deepak, Hitesh and Anshul.

In this show:

  • More war stories from Kiran, starring over-enthusiastic font-destroying printer folks and unreasonably reasonable autorickshaw drivers as doctypehtml5 goes to vibrant Ahmedabad
  • The HTML5 hype
  • Likes and dislikes for the Honeycomb UI
  • The new Apple Tax on ebook apps on the iOS platforms and why Apple seems uninterested in India
  • Google calling out bing: the Larry Page effect? Also Google, Bing and Blekko try different tactics to combat web spam

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  1. 9/02/2011Ashwin Nanjappa says:

    It was again entertaining to listen to Kiran’s stories from Ahmedabad! I loved Hitesh’s 3 main criteria for the work-life quality of an Indian city: electricity, internet and traffic. Reminded me of Indira Gandhi’s roti, kapda and makaan. :-)

    The Google-Bing fight reminds me of how stoic research in fields like AI, computer vision were about taking in any human interaction. For decades, they wanted a pure machine solution to their problems. But now, almost all of their practical solutions have benefited by adding some (direct or indirect) human feedback into the loop. It is not hard to see that search algorithms will also end up requiring some human feedback, thus making this latest allegation by Google a bit trifling.

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