Archive for November 1st, 2008
Heads Up On A Quality Online Magazine
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While web-surfing the other day I came across a unique online niche magazine that I found of interest, and believe many of my readers will, as well. The website I’m referring to is called PursuitMagazine, and as you might gather from the name, it specializes in providing industry information for those in the investigations and related industries.
PursuitMag is a PI magazine chalked full of quality information. In fact, you’ll be able to peruse a variety of private investigator articles which tackle everything from specialized investigation techniques, to how technology is advancing the industry. Really, if you’re in the industry and looking to advance your career, or even to simply stay on top of the latest information, you’ll want to visit PursuitMag regularly. You should also consider subscribing to their email updates - this way you won’t miss out on any pertinent information when it is posted on their private investigator blog.
One aspect of the website in particular that made me realize PursuitMagazine is run by professional, thoughtful people is that they included a jobs section, which is clearly something that will be helpful and appreciated by their reader-base.
Overall, PursuitMag is a very clean looking online magazine that provides quality, well-written material, and I recommend for all of you with an interest in investigations to check it out.
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Tivo has recently signed an agreement with Netflix to begin offering streaming videos.
The agreement stated that the owners of recent Tivo machines(TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL) who additionally have an unlimited subscription to Netflix will be allowed to select and watch content from Netflix’s collection of about 12,000 on-demand movie and TV titles.
For its part, Tivo hopes that the agreement will help the company sell more of its devices since the shows will be displayed on television sets through its devices.
This agreement is likely to cause Netflix subscribers to request less DVDs, thus reducing the company’s shipping costs and end up saving capital.
The integration is now being tested in several thousand homes and should be available in early December. The Los Gatos-based Netflix ended with 8.7 million subscribers and the Alviso-based TiVo ended July with 3.6 million subscribers
This indeed sounds like the ultimate movie/TV on-demand service.
Searching for PDFs and Multimedia with Google
Google rarely includes scanned documents in its search results since it cannot determine the nature of the content. This will change according to Google since it is planning to use advanced optical character recogniton (OCR) software to make PDF search a reality.
The advanced form of the OCR technology will convert scanned documents into equivalent text files for searching and indexing. This technology will also aid Google in its Book Search project, for scanning the entire book collections of the world’s major libraries. This is taking place at a rate of 3,000 books per day.
This step highlights the cumbersome process that currently exists when it comes to search retrieval. Currently, only multimedia material that is tagged as text can be searched. Ideally a search query could provide results of text, audio, video, etc’, even when no text is used as a tag.
Adobe has made some advances with this type of search when it revealed in July that its Flash player could be used by search engines to index Flash files.