Popular music search and discovery systems such as Pandora and Last.fm rely primarily upon human entered annotations to properly classify songs for search retrieval.  Though effective, human centric approaches to music classification are labor intensive and the recommendations that can be generated are limited in scope. For instance, a person must know the name of [...]

Recently, Doritos began an innovative campaign, Doritos Late Night, in which you can use a webcam and a bag of chips to see a concert appear in your hands. Bags of Doritos have been printed with a computer vision tracking marker which the webcam detects and uses to render a pre-recorded 3D concert. [...]

In 2007, the phenomenon of Justin.tv thrust the notion of personal live broadcasting into mainstream internet culture.  Anyone with an internet connection and a USB webcam now has a plethora of options for live broadcasting with sites such as Stickam, Justin.tv, and others. In the mobile arena, Qik, Kyte, and Flixwagon have released applications allowing [...]

Microsoft Research has developed an excellent system for creating mobile readable tags which encode URL’s.  Called Microsoft Tag, it can function as an interesting alternative to short codes.  The technology and its applications are explained in this video.

Microsoft Tag has recently become publicly available at http://tag.microsoft.com/.  Visit http://gettag.mobi/ to obtain a reader for most camera [...]