Met some interesting people, exchanged business cards, and managed to capture the latest in Web 2.0 hairdos using Charlie's camera :) Looking forward to more of these.
But also check this out .. enter a URL and you'll get a version of the page for your mobile device. No information on this page in typical Google style, looks like someone just stumbled on to this page and tagged it on del.icio.us.
I had forgotten about YubNub until this post on MobileCrunch reminded me again. But this time I can tag it on del.icio.us and this time safely forget about it again :)
Still love the idea. Best part .. it's built on rails. Can't wait to write my own first RoR application.
Frankly, smoking, drugs, alcohol--and using an IBM PC--are signs of stupidity ... :)
So now that the dust has settled down, let's review what this MacWorld brought us.
AOL yesterday acquired the video search engine Truveo. This is interesting in light of Google paying $1 blilion for AOL's 5% and even stinks of betrayal. Techcrunch's post with the news here, also covered by Jeff Clavier here.
They use some innovative techniques to create metadata about the media files, looking at surrounding content to determing context. Techcrunch's original review on Truveo here.
Here's a good demonstration of Truveo in action by comparing search results for Google's keynote video at CES 2006, covered earlier.
According to the Yahoo! Music Blog, Yahoo yesterday acquired the online music playlist publishing company WebJay. I've never used this site myself, but it's an interesting concept. They use an open XML format for sharing playlists called XSPF (pronounced "spiff"), which should soon be available as part of Yahoo Music's already existing open APIs.Also reported on Techcrunch and an IM interview of Lucas Gonze, the creator of WebJay.
According to their blog and also at Techcrunch, Riya has managed to raise $15 million from Bay Partners for their second round funding.