Social Media Data Continues to Grow

Sysomos is known for their social media monitoring and analytics. Now they can brag about reaching an important milestone – the indexing of 100,000,000,000 (one hundred billion) social posts. This interesting news was brought to us by MarketWatch in their article, “Social Media Monitoring Leader Sysomos Indexes 100,000,000,000th Post.” Sysomos collects social media data in real…

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Semantic Advertising Founder Takes On Next Challenge

Seven years ago, Peer39 created a new category of semantic advertising. This technology semantically analyzes every web page in order to properly understand and classify the meaning of a web page and then places the most appropriate advertising. Semantic advertising increases the chance that the viewer will click-thru because only advertising relevant to what they are viewing. This technology has changed the world of online advertising. Despite all this, Peer39 was sold earlier this year to Digital Generation.

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It Is Like Herding Cats

The web is full of unstructured data. There may be a few segments falling in line with semantic standards, but they are few and far between. The focus of search engines is on HTML but that leaves much of the data undiscovered.

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The End Result Will Help

Sometimes with all the anxiety and business around the ICD-10 coding classification transition, we forget that this will undoubtedly result in better insight into individual patient conditions and the wealth of data that will be available will improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery.

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Migrating to SharePoint Faster and More Easily

Kapow Software has partnered with CapTech to make migrating legacy digital assets to SharePoint faster. San Francisco Gate brought this news our way in their article, “Kapow Software and CapTech Partner to Automate SharePoint Content Migration.” The Kapow Katalyst Application Integration Platform allows any combination of legacy content to be systematically transformed, formatted, and migrated…

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The Growing Deficit in Computer Science Education

In our increasingly globalized economy many career paths that seemed to offer security are today only offering uncertainty to recent graduates. Students graduating with degrees in teaching, law, and even human resources or business are finding stiff competition and few opportunities. Even in our stubbornly weak economy, job growth in computer science fields has continued steadily; yet even as computer usage becomes ingrained in nearly every facet of modern life, many graduates find themselves ill-equipped to take on the requirements of technology-based jobs.

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