Taxodiary – News

Remember Google+?

By Melody Smith|May 4th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Remember Google+?

The latest player in the social media arena, Google + has had a dismal start and experienced non-existent growth. There seems to be some pseudo-taxonomy of social media that labels various sites for various purposes, i.e. Facebook is for pictures of kids, Twitter is for news, and LinkedIn for recruitment. I don’t think I agree with that totally and to be completely honest, I’ve not given Google+ a try. However, the ability to segment your followers and therefore, your conversations is a feature that seems like it would have a following.

Social Reading

By Melody Smith|May 3rd, 2012|News|Comments Off on Social Reading

In this day and age of social media infiltrating every area of our lives, for good or bad, there is one area that has resisted this trend (at least up until now) – books. Perhaps the last refuge from social media, many go to find shelter from the friending and tweeting in their comforting pages and worn binding. Unfortunately, this once solitary refuge is looking to join the social realm as companies like Copia and BookGlutton look to jump on board.

Discovery Services Aid the Professionals

By Melody Smith|May 3rd, 2012|News|Comments Off on Discovery Services Aid the Professionals

Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the very honorable librarian profession. The web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.

Taking Advantage of the New Deadline

By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 2012|Autoindexing, indexing, News|Comments Off on Taking Advantage of the New Deadline

Even though we finally have a new ICD-10 implementation deadline, will just an extra 12 months really make a difference? Some ponder that healthcare providers who were on track to comply by Oct. 1, 2013 now have a chance to strengthen their plans and those who were behind now get a chance to catch up.

Pandora Kicks It Up A Notch

By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 2012|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Pandora Kicks It Up A Notch

Pandora is known as one of the most popular personalized radio services out there and now they have rolled out the ‘Inside the Music’ program, in partnership with Intel. The program offers users the opportunity to explore behind-the-scenes of the Pandora Music Genome Project providing them with all necessary information on their favorite music.

Semantic Search Technology Used by New Start-up

By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Search Technology Used by New Start-up

Big data startup, PureDiscovery, is offering an answer to outdated enterprise search technology. Brainspace can learn just about everything about how pieces of content are related to one another. That means users will become less dependent on searching for information because the platform will feed them what they want to know as they interact with other content.

Big Data Analytics – The Popular Kid

By Melody Smith|May 1st, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Big Data Analytics – The Popular Kid

Big data analytics is becoming more and more common. Quantivo now offers big-data analytics to corporations of all sizes using a cloud-based architecture. This patented technology will enable customers to harness information that has been buried in big data at a fraction of the cost of using other methods.

SciVerse Chosen by Researchers

By Melody Smith|May 1st, 2012|indexing, News|Comments Off on SciVerse Chosen by Researchers

Netherlands publisher Elsevier has announced that the European Research Council (ERC) has selected the SciVerse Scopus database to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world.

Enhanced Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith|April 30th, 2012|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Enhanced Semantic Technology

Sprylogics International has announced the leveraging and enhancement on their existing patent pending technology base to build mobile search solutions that interpret what people are saying online and on their mobile phones.

The Valuable Data of Healthcare

By Melody Smith|April 27th, 2012|metadata, News|1 Comment

Apixio has announced that it has provided funds for research to the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) at Stanford University for developing data driven methods to improve health care outcomes. Funds will support research to investigate and understand the impact of utilizing large scale clinical data in enhancing quality and improving health care enterprise. BusinessWire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Stanford University and Apixio Interpret Big Data for Healthcare.”