September 2010

Microsoft + Yahoo = Bing

By |September 3rd, 2010

Scarcely a week after Yahoo and Microsoft announced the transition of Yahoo searches to Microsoft Bing infrastructure, the two search engine giants have announced that the integration of the back end technology is complete.

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Lucene Revolution — Conference Dedicated to Open Source Enterprise Search

By |September 2nd, 2010

Apache Lucene and Solr open source search technologies are playing host to the first-ever conference in the US devoted to open source search. The conference will take place October 7-8, 2010 at the Hyatt Harborside, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Words of Advice From A Departing Yahoo’er

By |September 2nd, 2010

Yet another major departure from Yahoo in recent days. Yahoo VP for Social Platforms Neal Sample has left the company for eBay where he will be the chief of architecture.

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More Commitment from Google for Realtime Search

By |September 2nd, 2010

Search engine Google has recently announced expanded commitment for providing real time search results. Social media is the generating force.

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New Director of Interoperability Certification for Open Geospatial Consortium

By |September 1st, 2010

Dr. Luis E. Bermudez has been appointed Director of Interoperability Certification for the OGC where he will among other things, manage the OGC Certification Program and lead plugfest activities.

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New Version of Enterprise Semantic Intelligence Knowledge Suite Available

By |September 1st, 2010

Transinsight released the next version of its Enterprise Semantic Intelligence Knowledge Suite at the I-SEMANTICS Conference in Graz, Austria.

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Integration – The Most Overlooked Component of Semantic Technologies

By |September 1st, 2010

Sean Martin, CTO of Cambrige Semantics was recently interviewed on his views of integration.

August 2010

Knowledge Organization – How and Why?

By |August 31st, 2010

A new book is coming that answers questions like - How do we organize objects so that they make sense and are useful and what role do categories, classifications, taxonomies, and other structures play in the process of organizing? TaxoDiary readers get a discount.

Granicus’ Recent Purchase Supports Governmental Transparency

By |August 31st, 2010

Granicus beefs up its powers in the governmental cloud with the purchase of a company that shares its vision of open government.