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?
As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.
IDV Solutions is now official Microsoft launch partner for the upcoming Windows Azure Marketplace. IDV’s Fetch! mobile application will be one of a few select products offered in the Windows Azure Marketplace upon its launch.
A new social monitoring tool has hit the market, but a very specific market. Cruvee focuse solely on the wine industry, allowing users to track and engage in conversations across the web with current and potential customers.
"Resource Sharing in the Digital Age" is the theme for the upcoming Interlending & Document Supply Conference, sponsored by IFLA and ALA. The event will take place September 19-21, 2011 in Chicago.
Arizona court system chooses BMI Imaging’s Digital ReeL as its microfilm and microfiche conversion solution. This new process will be a far cry from the cumbersome and expensive archiving steps required in the past. With their unique indexing requirements, the solution that best made digitizing court records efficient for them was Digital ReeL.
Amerinet Inc. and Atigeo has joined forced to provide customized healthcare solutions. Amerinet will make Atigeo’s xPatterns solutions available to their members to reduce costs and improve productivity for ICD-10 code compliance.
Straight from Modena, Italy, Expert System, has developed a solution to improve customer service, combining semantic analysis of sentiment and customer satisfaction monitoring with advanced natural language customer interaction features.
Nanyang Technological University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), after an extensive trial process of many services, to enable findability of the library’s content from a single search box.