Archive for January, 2005

Amazon A9 Search Engine

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Robsta.id.au ranks #1 for the search term ‘robsta‘ on Amazon’s A9 search engine.

But apart from that, A9 is a very interesting search engine. US Residents can use a yellowpages feature to get street views of millions of businesses and their surroundings.

The most powerful technology A9.com invented for Yellow Pages is “Block View”, which brings the Yellow Pages to life by showing a street view of millions of businesses and their surroundings. Using trucks equipped with digital cameras, global positioning system (GPS) receivers, and proprietary software and hardware, A9.com drove tens of thousands of miles capturing images and matching them with businesses and the way they look from the street.

Heres how they did it.

Bemused

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

I stumbled across this interesting SourceForge project. Bemused is a system which allows you to control your music collection from your phone, using Bluetooth. It requires a Series 60 or UIQ phone (e.g. Nokia 7650/3650, or Sony Ericsson P800), and a PC with a Bluetooth adapter.

So apparently I can control Winamp from my P900. The only thing left to do is buy a bluetooth dongle for the PC.