Best Web Face Forward

By |November 16th, 2010|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Best Web Face Forward

A recent survey revealed almost half of business technology professionals run more than five separate online sites. This was according to the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 Corporate Web Presence Survey. So how good are we at multi-tasking?

Semantic Technology in Travel

By |November 16th, 2010|News, search, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology in Travel

UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.

Libraries Become More Valuable

By |November 12th, 2010|indexing, News|Comments Off on Libraries Become More Valuable

A new agreement between OCLC and EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) will create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. Among other benefits that this partnership brings, libraries will be able to use EBSCO Discovery Service to facilitate interlibrary loan (ILL) via OCLC.

SlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box

By |November 11th, 2010|News, ontology|Comments Off on SlipBox Thinks Outside of the Box

Intentionally avoiding the use of a keyword ontology, SlipBox is based on traditional slip boxes and manages the notes in a similar manner as the human memory.When taking notes, SlipBox actively discourages the use of categories like they are required by most note-taking applications and just focuses on tags.