In a familiar story, we learned that Lucid Imagination released an update to their LucidWorks Enterprise product this week that includes a way of connecting the search tool directly to SharePoint repositories.
A new website has been launched to assist drivers, dealers, and repair shops to locate parts. Seems like an easy task, but with FinditParts.com, products from more than 800 manufacturers and OEMs are available.
The paint is barely dry on the closed sign for Q&A start-up PeerPong, but competitor Formspring has already picked up PeerPong CEO Ro Choy to serve as its COO, as well as a few other former PeerPong employees.
On a totally unrelated, but very enjoyable topic, I must share a blog that was recently brought to my attention – Reprobatio Certa. This humorous, however very eloquently written blog is defined as Rejection letters, correspondence, and miscellanea from the otherwise empty annals of the Journal of Universal Rejection.
The Multilingua Universal Decimal Classification Summary project, containing an abridged schedule of over 2000 classes with notes and examples, continues to progress with 40 languages online, some completely translated and others in various stages of translation.
The Wall Street Journal on April 19, 2011 talked about the need for customer name authority control in banks. Okay, so maybe that is not what they said. What they did outline was the problem Arabic names and the many ways to state them gives to banks and other organizations which try to track the information or put a hold on funds for organizations like the example, Moammar Gadhafi. Also know as many other names. His first name could be transliterated as Muammar, Mummar, Mohamed Mahmut, Mehmud and more than 20 other variants. The same goes last name could be Gaddafi, Ghathafi, Elkaddafi, El-Kaddafi, Al-Gaddafi, Gadhafi, Qaddafi, Al-Qadhafi, El-Qaddfi, Qadhafi, Abu Miryar Al-Qahafi, Ghadaffi, and others. Any combination of these names is valid. There are further complications of the Abu or Al or El and other designations of honor make things even more interesting.
Whether you prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate, briefs over boxers, or the Stones over the Beatles, the personality test is the perfect example of categorization in its truest form.
Texting may be faster, more efficient and mostly gets the job done. But the slippery slope of bad grammar we have taken from emails to texting has taken away all quality of writing and content. Using the smallest number of letters to get your message across does not equal writing.