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Economist.com - Tech.view - Improving Innovation - Search engines could be the answer
Article on innovation, culminating on the launch of Illumin8.
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Motricity to Slash Jobs, Move From N.C. :: WRAL.com
“Motricity plans to eliminate 250 of the 350 jobs in its offices at the American Tobacco Complex in downtown Durham over the next nine months, the company said in a statement.”
Archive for the 'Search/Browse' Category
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Sweet Juniper! - Photos of abandoned school depository
“Pallet after pallet of mid-1980s Houghton-Mifflin textbooks, still unwrapped in their original packaging, seem more telling of our failures than any vacant edifice.”
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“The open theme continues today as we are announcing that we are opening up Yahoo! Search itself.”
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illumin8 blog » Blog Archive » Welcome to illumin8
“It’s all started in an Elsevier Library Connect meeting in October 2006….”
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“Illumin8 is a workflow solution that helps R&D decision makers answer complex R&D questions faster, more accurately… Semantic indexing…”
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Netbase guy blog.
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Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
The coMscore press release on Facebook’s massive growth in use among non-college age users.
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Faceted Folksonomy | davidsturtz.com
via johnfudrow — Post on Faceted Folksonomy. This is one of my favorite topics as of late. Expect to hear a lot about this in the near future. Basically it is a concept for collecting richer user contributed metadata.
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InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Social Tagging
More on faceted tagging.
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From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.
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FaceTag: Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system
“FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classi
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via John Furdrow — Seems more general than the same author’s works on faceted tagging, but seems like it would be a helpful into to his line of thinking.
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citation-formats - Microformats
“This page will display several different types of citation format types.” In depth comparison of Dublin Core, MODS, bibTeX and Z39.80
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tiara.org » Online Identity Bibliography
“A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”
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tiara.org » status in social media
“I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media.” - Includes a nice discussion of status in Web 2.0 geek culture.
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The Real Paul Jones » Blog Archive » OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable - Q1
Paul is blogging his answers to the questions being given to panel participants. The topic of the virtual roundtable is online communities. Other panel members include Fred Stutzman, Lori Bell, and Ed Castronova.
The new WorldCat.org is a significant step forward. I am especially impressed with the efficient permanent urls (isbn/isbnnumber and oclc/oclcnumber) and the faceted browsing offered on the left of the results screen. Additionally, I like the breadcrumb trail that accompanies the faceted browsing. I am also impressed with the search speed and the simplicity of the interface. They have also describe a number of ways to integrate WorldCat into one’s browsing habits and websites. I look forward to seeing results appearing in search engine results. Overall, it seems like a significant step forward, but I need to look at it more carefully later.
The press release is here. This is possibly the nicest library catalog I have seen they use a database/search company instead of a typical opac vendor and appear to have tweaked it extensively. AMong other things, it clusters results based off subject headings, has advanced relavency rankings, and allows browsing of the full collection. It also facilitates browsing in other innovative ways.
