2011 – Page 53 – Taxodiary

Time for the Turf War to End

By Melody Smith | April 22, 2011

There has been a long time competition, war, or some battle of sorts between website usability and search engine optimization. Each side argues that they know best how to make web pages findable in search engines. The irony? They are both right.

Social Media at Walmart

By Melody Smith | April 21, 2011

WalMart Stores has acquired Kosmix, a technology firm which searches and analyzes social media connections in real-time to deliver customized feedback to users.

Earth to the Clouds

By Melody Smith | April 21, 2011

Google Earth Builder will serve up data from businesses and government agencies to the World.

Location Tool Drives Business

By Melody Smith | April 21, 2011

LocalResponse launches its long-awaited public beta of their new tool that allows business owners to respond to their customers to drive transactions. Localresponse.com allows businesses to track their consumers in real time by organizing, indexing and prioritizing various location-based services.

Six Degrees of Indexing

By Melody Smith | April 20, 2011

What would it be like to have search sites take your friends’ opinions into account when you look for restaurants? Newspaper sites that use their knowledge of what’s previously captured your attention online to display articles you are interested in? Sounds a lot like Amazon’s technology, doesn’t it?

iGlue On Its Way To Being a Publicly Traded Entity

By Melody Smith | April 20, 2011

Power of the Dream Ventures has announced they are going forward on a roadmap for iGlue to take the company public in the United States.

Semantic Search Technology Awarded a Patent

By Melody Smith | April 20, 2011

Expert System has been awarded a patient by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Cogito® semantic platform. The patient safeguards Cogito, which relies on deep linguistic analysis and semantic disambiguation of text to ensure a complete understanding of a text without the use of statistics or keyword based technologies.

The Semantic Web Draws a Crowd

By Melody Smith | April 19, 2011 |

Members of the IPTC will address semantic markup and introduce attendees to rNews at the Semantic Web Meetup scheduled for Thursday, April 21st at the New York Times Building.