Search me inc. was a visual search engine, similar to ours (Oolone.com) that launched in 2008. After spending millions of dollars (it launched with $25m backing from Sequoia Capital), the engine went offline in 2009. In fact, over 3 months in 2009 the engine lost 1.2 million visitors. As far as I can see, there
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1 Comment » Why is it so difficult to get hard evidence for the positive impact of iPads and interactive technology on students’ learning? We can all see young peoples’ plastic brains adapting to new platforms far quicker than our own, interacting seamlessly with the latest console as they learn miles of cyber terrain in a matter of
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Pinterest recently, in a single week, received more visits than the population of Portugal. This is a 40x increase on the same period the year before. Pinterest is a social network that allows users to share things of interest on their virtual ‘pinboards’. By all accounts, Pinterest’s growth hasn’t always been as explosive, with relatively
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Death of the television There are multiple cool technologies on the horizon, multiple ways that visual technology could go. But whether devices are on our laps, hands, or windows, the interaction has already changed from that of sitting round the family TV set. To paraphrase Joey from Friends, if we don’t have a TV, what
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A few people have asked for our opinion on ‘Search cube’, a search engine, like ours, that displays search results in a visual manner. We were aware of services such as ‘Search cube’ and the now defunct ‘Search Me’ before building Oolone, and while we enjoy their services, we felt that they don’t utilize the
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Recently Facebook filed their S-1, starting the wheels in motion on their journey to become a public company. There are inherent dangers in making the leap from a private to a public enterprise. When Google went public in 2004, one of their main concerns was that their competition would find out just how successful they
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