Location tracking

Today Karthik directed me towards an interesting feature in google maps. It's the my location feature which has been available since mid 2009. This feature is surprisingly accurate. On my laptop it was able to pinpoint the exact street. The location service for this feature is provided by a company called Skyhook and it works by identifying nearby Wi-Fi locations. Here is a nice talk about the privacy implications of such a service.

First Post

Finally I decided to start blogging. This blog will serve as a collection of things I work on an and things that catch my attention. I will be writing mainly on the topics of technology and probably more about my areas of interest in data mining, machine learning and media. Hopefully it will start some interesting conversations.