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Social recommendation engine to find a babysitter

Google's tally of activity on "Google Plus-enhanced products," by contrast, suggests frequent activity on the network by at least 50 million people. But it includes activity on YouTube, the Android Marketplace and the Google search engine. Even if you don't have Google+, you probably spend a significant amount of time on these sites. In The Times article, Google defends its statistic by saying time spent on Google+ isn't reflective of how much the network is being used. Gundotra described the social network as "a social blanket that envelopes the entire Google experience."

If Google is successful with a "balloon network" will the traditional "tower & satellite" telcos be disrupted? NOTE: they do have the barricade of licensed spectrum...

Japanese researchers have unveiled the AquaTop display, which consists of a screen projected onto the surface of water, controlled by interacting with the liquid. The creators engineered the system to use the water surface as an integral part of its control - for example, one action is carried out when users dip their fingertips to interact with a screen object, and another when they approach the item from underneath the water. On-screen items also react to the movement of the water, meaning that they can be moved or changed by simply disrupting the surface with a splash, or scooping up the water and placing it elsewhere.

Gut bateria and cognitive capacity, another argument for either engineered (3D printed) food or nanobots that live in us.

24 billion searches per month more than yahoo and bing combined daily 7.7

daily 7.19 no word on how foursquare would be integrated, but their info shows interesting trends that would enrich search

They'll use Victors & Spoils' Squirrel Fight creative submission engine.

Discussion of how quality of search results is declining and how new search engines, like DuckDuckGo and Blekko, are trying to change search for the better.

Outbrain, a New York-based starteup, is a content recommendation engine that steers web readers to other stories within the site or to other sites that are relevant to the article they're reading, but the business is built on paid distribution, where big publishers such as Slate, USA Today and Conde Nast, which have all been using Outbrain's technology, pay to have articles show up on another site. As an example, Slate might pay to have a link to one of its articles appear under a USA Today story as long as the content is relevant.

Application of semantic web to improvement of web search - specifically, creating a recipe search engine. Search agencies may be able to get new business by helping businesses optimize for similar searche engines along multiple verticals.