xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
20th November 2006

The Up Side of Down

John Maeda: “Today I learned from my trusty, and sometimes brutally honest (thankfully), assistant that reviews for my current MIT undergraduate class were poor. This was a revelation for me as I enjoy teaching and interacting with undergrads. My first reaction was the classic failure reaction of difficulty in breathing and massive reduction of my already abnormally-low blood pressure…”

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20th November 2006

like visual search engine

“a new visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search & retrieve similar items. users can search their favorite pair of earrings or shoes by selecting parts of images, by color, by detail or by similarity to uploaded photos, & order them by color, shape or pattern.”

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