Taxodiary – 2011

Archiving Digital Requires Standards

By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Archiving Digital Requires Standards

Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but in the world of media and entertainment, the demise of the videotape and the prevalence of digital creates a perfect storm of data volume. Without the tangible backup tape, archiving digital data carries more weight than ever before. The urgent need for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage and proprietary data tapes is here.

Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing

By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing

Atempo has announced the findings of a new industry analyst research report - Archive Agility: Building Business Resilience Through Active Archiving - that identifies the best technologies and operational processes for successful active archiving align with the key differentiators of Atempo Digital Archive.

Pandora Continues to Grow in Use and Favor

By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Pandora Continues to Grow in Use and Favor

Edison Research has released audience analysis that showcases ratings for Pandora internet radio, and they show that listeners are tuning in Pandora personalized radio more and more.

The Age of Big Cloud Data

By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Age of Big Cloud Data

There is yet another acronym on the horizon. ABCD – The Age of Big Cloud Data. With the Web accelerating the digitization of all content (digital information was 1% of all information in 1986 but 95% today) and the creation of new digital content (from 4.5 billion gigabytes in 2000 to 1227 billion gigabytes in 2010), there has to be room in the clouds for all this data to transition from physical to virtual.

XBRL Taxonomy Search Tool Made Available

By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2011|News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on XBRL Taxonomy Search Tool Made Available

CompSci Resources, LLC is making available to the public its XBRL taxonomy search tool in order to assist issuers and mutual funds generate their XBRL submissions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

New Partnership Provides SEC Compliance Solutions

By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2011|News|Comments Off on New Partnership Provides SEC Compliance Solutions

Insight2Infinity and Compliance Xpressware has formed a strategic partnership where the two companies will maintain an ongoing business relationship enabling Insight2Infinity’s customers to meet SEC's HTML/XBRL compliance requirements.

Renting e-Books Could Save a Few Trees

By Melody Smith|July 27th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Renting e-Books Could Save a Few Trees

With Amazon’s announcement about the Kindle Textbook Rental program, it makes one wonder how many basement hackers are gearing up to swipe content and begin a new career. It isn’t that I don’t think it is a good idea, I think it is a great idea. Besides the whole saving a tree benefit, textbook costs are a big black hole of which you never get a return. Even reselling books is pennies on the dollar and usually you are stuck with them. Almost everyone has a box of textbooks tucked away in their storage area because you just can’t stand the thought of tossing thousands of dollars worth of books. Instead, you move them from location to location, thinking someday you will find someone who can use them.

Goldfire 6.6 Released

By Melody Smith|July 27th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Goldfire 6.6 Released

Invention Machine is making available Invention Machine Goldfire 6.6, the Company's innovation intelligence platform. The latest release features enhancements that help companies build and foster a collaborative culture for accelerating innovative products and services to market.

SLACK Implements RSuite CMS

By Melody Smith|July 27th, 2011|News, search|Comments Off on SLACK Implements RSuite CMS

SLACK , Inc. has implemented RSuite CMS by Really Strategies to automate distribution of its journal content to licensing channels.

Can Humans Do Better Than Computers? Sometimes?

By Melody Smith|July 26th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Can Humans Do Better Than Computers? Sometimes?

The buzz continues around Google +, both good and bad. It seems like every day I am hearing about a situation with folks being “booted” or blocked. Even William Shatner apparently got booted from the algorithm giant. Is this because they are so locked into those algorithms that even semantic technology can’t save them from a misunderstanding? Can they really loosen the reins enough to let users have some control?

Yearly Archives: 2011