You know how current image search engines are based on just indexing text associated with an image to determine what’s in the image? That gives pretty weak search results. Now Google is talking about changing that. Their vision of next generation image search uses computers to analyze the stuff in photos, and then the analyzed [...]
Now that Adobe has recently released the official beta of the much talked about Photoshop Express, it’s good to look at a couple other online image editors that have been in the market longer than PES. The free version of Picnik is really basic and therefore also quick and easy to use. It doesn’t really [...]
When I was 13, 14 years old, I sometimes sat down for hours to draw maps of imaginary cities. I was, and I am still, interested in urban planning, though it never became my profession, and I’m drawn to maps of all kind. Last week I told my wife I’d like to start drawing those [...]
I’ve recently started using a couple new services that are now in beta testing: Floobs and Vailoma. Floobs offers tools for creating and distributing web TV channels. Sounds a bit like YouTube, and it is, but Floobs is more geared towards setting up independent “channels” for associations, sports teams, community groups, etc. rather than being [...]
Matka.fi (Journey.fi in English) is a handy, nationwide route information service, which, for most part, is funded by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Finland. The service provides information on rail connections and walking routes as well as on local transport connections in most of Finland. The service is free to its users. A [...]
This goes slightly off-topic for my blog, but the things that Apple announced today at Macworld are worthy of a note. The ultrathin MacBook Air is pretty cool, though, in order to save space, it does not have a CD or DVD drive. If I would’ve known that Time Capsule was coming, I’d waited before [...]
I know that Nike + iPod has been in the market for a while, but since I haven´t written anything about the great little thing here in my blog before, and I myself have been a happy user of the gadget for more than six months, I just need to say how much I like [...]
The UK will see advertisers spend more on the Internet than TV ads in 2009, according to the forecast from Group M, and in Sweden the Internet ad spend will overtake TV already this year (actually, another research lab, IRM, says that happened already last year). The Internet has grown to take almost a 20% [...]
At Eurobest, the Cannes Lions’ advertising awards for European agencies, this year almost 40 of the works shortlisted in the Interactive category were by Swedish agencies. German agencies got the second most nominations, over 20, and British agencies 12. Even though the Grand Prix didn’t go to Sweden this year, Farfar, Forsman&Bodenfors and Great Works [...]
Here’s an interesting article on how in Japan, consumers are buying other gadgets, like iPods and game consoles, rather than investing in a new computer. And I can see that happening in other places as well. Of course it’s not that computers are really becoming “uninteresting,” like the title reads, because a thing like a [...]
Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »
