Posts by Melody Smith
Location Tool Drives Business
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.
Read MoreSix Degrees of Indexing
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?
Read MoreiGlue On Its Way To Being a Publicly Traded Entity
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.
Read MoreSemantic Search Technology Awarded a Patent
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.
Read MoreThe Semantic Web Draws a Crowd
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.
Read MoreNew Acquisition Beefs up Semantic Search
Intertainment Media Inc. has agreed to buy mobile software and app developer Commobility Inc.
Read MoreWorkshop on Automated Reasoning
A workshop on automated reasoning about context and ontology evolution will take place in Barcelona, Spain on July 17-18, 2011.
Read MoreThe Power Of Survey Taxonomies To Skew The Results The Way You Want Them
I went to the doctor’s office this week and they asked if I would participate in a short Federal survey. I said sure. What followed was beyond frustrating.
Read MoreNew Grant Funds Digital Research Center
Emory University is soon to have a coffeehouse-like environment in which students can work in cross-discipline collaboration and allow researcher access to the library’s vast experts on all things library. This will differ from other digital research centers because of the cross-discipline collaboration potential.
Read MoreWhat Does the Future Hold for Libraries?
A table of powerhouses gathered to discussion a slew of topics from the impact of cloud computing and open source ILSs to issues surrounding user engagement, the digital divide, and declining library budgets.
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