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Was looking at my traffic and saw this spike in traffic.
Checked the web traffic and most often hits was to the login for the website.
Don’t know why someone would want to get into my site so bad. Changed the site password to something unique and not used anywhere else. Hope I can remember it. :-)
Whenever you add photos to a service people automatically assume tagging will be a feature. I don’t know about you, but I think photo tags suck. My brain isn’t well enough organized to be like a database, remembering all the tags I’ve used in the past and which images I applied them to. So, for now no photo tagging.
Even if you had perfect tagging then you would run into semantic problems when you are in a group. A word means one thing to me and means a different thing to others yet we use the same word.
This weekend I was taking photos of the kids getting ski race medals and after taking a picture with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 app it would prompt me to tag the image. I defaulted to date as I found after I took a picture the last thing I wanted to do is tag an image and type. Seems really stupid that my kids are smiling in the moment and I would have my head down pecking on my phone. Doing it later is too painful, and you are spending time sharing the photos with family and friends.
This experience confirmed a better way to tag that came from a friend who was using a new photo based service and made an awesome point. Sorry not sharing the idea. It is too good. Especially since I have been staring at this problem for over 2 years. With patience and identifying that photo tagging sucks, finding a better way is the reward for the years of patience.
Photo tagging is important enough that Facebook was granted a patent for photo tagging.
Facebook Wins Patents For Tagging in Photos, Other Digital Media
Tagging was arguably the feature that made Facebook the biggest photo site in the world and seeded the idea for creating the platform.
Now the company has finally won a patent for it.
Nearly five years after the company originally filed for the invention, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave Facebook a patent protecting the ability to select a region in a piece of media (like a photo or video) and associate people or other entities with it. Mark Zuckerberg, longtime designer-turned-product architect Aaron Sittig and former Facebook engineer Scott Marlette were credited as inventors.
Zuckerberg has long talked about photo tagging as the innovation that helped him and other early Facebook employees initially conceive of the idea for the platform. The company did a competitive analysis of all other photo products out on the web and while Facebook didn’t offer features like high resolution or printing, it still outcompeted rivals simply because it centered its product around people, and not around technical capabilities. Last year the company said it was seeing more than 100 million photo uploads a day. It has not updated that statistic since.
Zuckerberg has long talked about photo tagging as the innovation that helped him and other early Facebook employees initially conceive of the idea for the platform. The company did a competitive analysis of all other photo products out on the web and while Facebook didn’t offer features like high resolution or printing, it still outcompeted rivals simply because it centered its product around people, and not around technical capabilities. Last year the company said it was seeing more than 100 million photo uploads a day. It has not updated that statistic since.
I think the last time I saw a Microsoft Presentation at Open Compute Summit is Dileep Bhandardar’s talk in 2011 for the first Open Compute Summit. There are a handful of people besides Facebook employees who have gone to all the Open Compute Summits. I’ve gone to all so I know first hand who presented. I remember Dileep’s talk as I coincidentally sat next to Dileep on the flight from SEA to SJC in first class and we spent some time going over his presentation. Dileep is now with Qualcomm and since then I think I can count the number of Microsoft employees I’ve seen at OCP on one hand who I recognize. (note: given it has been 8 years since I left Microsoft i missed a whole set of Microsoft attendees.
When I checked out the latest schedule for OCP.
Bill Laing is keynoting right after Frank Frankovsky. Given Bill is keynoting I got a feeling there will be a bunch more Microsoft employees at this event.
I grew up in the SF bay area and live there for 32 years before making the the move to Redmond and now I work from home. Back when I used to commute to Microsoft, I had a less than a 3 mile drive and used to gas the car up every other month. This would in theory a good scenario for an electric car, but I don’t think an electric car pays for itself when you drive less than 3,000 miles a year.
When I go to the bay area I borrow one of family’s cars and can get 45 mpg in a VW diesel. When driving I see lots of EV. Given Bay Area commutes there are probably many who count on getting a charge at work. All sounds good until you get to work and find there are no EV spots.
Here is a MercuryNews article on the problem of not enough EV chargers.
'Charge rage': Too many electric cars, not enough workplace chargers
By Dana Hull
SAP is one company highlighted.
Just three years later, SAP faces a problem that is increasingly common at Silicon Valley companies -- far more electric cars than chargers. Sixty-one of the roughly 1,800 employees on the campus now drive a plug-in vehicle, overwhelming the 16 available chargers. And as demand for chargers exceeds supply, a host of thorny etiquette issues have arisen, along with some rare but notorious incidents of "charge rage."
"In the beginning, all of our EV drivers knew each other, we had enough infrastructure, and everyone was happy. That didn't last for long," said Peter Graf, SAP's chief sustainability officer and the driver of a Nissan Leaf. "Cars are getting unplugged while they are actively charging, and that's a problem. Employees are calling and messaging each other, saying, 'I see you're fully charged, can you please move your car?'"
This is probably just the beginning of EV charging problems. Can you imagine running power all over a parking lot? EV charging tends to be close to a building.
It can be hard to figure out the growth of the data center industry. One data point is Intel’s sales of its data center server chips.
ZDNet’s Larry Dignan digs into this aspect.
Regarding the data center, Smith said on a conference call:
If you look at the trends in the fourth quarter, I think the trends actually reinforce the growth rate among cloud, high performance computing, networking, storage. They all came in consistent with what we thought. As we entered Q4, we saw that we had more inventory out in the world than we knew when we started the quarter so that had to be burned off. And then secondly, we saw a tapering off in order patterns across certain customers. We think that was driven by the government shutdown and the uncertainty around the debt ceiling. Because when you look at the customers and the segments it's pretty clearly in those segments. We had a range around growth rates for 2014 and the investor meeting we said 10 to 15%. Based on a slower growth in enterprise in Q4 and maybe a slower recovery in enterprise over the course of 2014, I'd say we're now at the lower end of that range. So we're more at the 10% range than the 15% part.
