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Positive news about what's happening in technology, social media, and the world.

Webscalers, created in part by BU's Weiyi Meng

Binghamton University's own Weiyi Meng has recently been working on a business called Webscalers, a technology-based company which provides solutions to various business problems associated with online search coverage, quality, & effectiveness.  

Weiyi Meng & Webscaler's technology assists in building systems to support unified access to multiple different search engines.  Research and development of the technologies has been the result of collaboration between universities as and the company along with funding from the National Science Foundation.  

For more information on Weiyi Meng, visit his website.  

For information on Webscalers and their technology, click here.   

 

"Smart" Music Add-On for IPhone/Smartphone

A local start-up recently released a new, "Smart" music download for your IPhone or Android-Based Smartphone.  

The player, named the Instinctiv Player, looks at what songs you've listened to and what songs you've skipped in order to develop personalized playlists and shuffle.  It even takes data over extended periods of time in order to develop a sense of your shifting music tastes.  Other features of interest include album artwork downloads, the ability to search for songs via title/album/artist, playlist creation and editing, among others.  

More information and available downloads can be found at Instinctiv Player's website. 

   
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