May 2011

Adventures of a TaxoTourist

By |May 23rd, 2011

The trip was awesome—a dream exotic vacation to Bali. It was not about eat, pray, love, but a rather unbalanced midpoint to meet my Oz-dwelling daughter. I enjoyed dashes of ecotourism and agritourism, but even in full vacation mode I couldn’t fully suppress my perspective as a taxonomist.

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Crystal Semantics Releases New Features Into AppNexus

By |May 23rd, 2011

Crystal Semantics has announced deployment of its semantic targeting technology within AppNexus, the real-time advertising platform used by ad networks, demand-side platforms, and other leading online advertising companies.

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Making Intranets Cohesive and Searchable

By |May 20th, 2011

Northern Light has introduced new coordinating capabilities for its SinglePoint enterprise strategic research portals and Microsoft SharePoint sites on a company's intranet. This move expands an organization's ability to leverage market research, competitive intelligence and other strategic documents.

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New Release Allows Flexible Search

By |May 20th, 2011

Mindseye Solutions has announced the first of two major releases. Included in these releases are Flexible Search and a number of significant improvements to the handling of Lotus Notes.

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Semantic Technology Strives to Increase Health Awareness

By |May 19th, 2011

We all know where our heart is located in our body (I hope) and most of us know where our kidneys are positioned. But when you get more obscure, like say the pituitary gland, do you know where it is exactly? A new 3D body visualization site that also works like a search engine has been launched by Healthline Networks and GE Healthymagination.

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New Product Uses Semantic Technology for Weather Data

By |May 19th, 2011

LMI has launched its Climate Change Knowledge Engine™, a new tool for the easy consumption of climate change data combining open-source semantic web technology and data from the public domain in a way that is accessible to nonscientific leaders in the public and private sectors. LMI-CliCKE is pronounced “click” and is free for public use.

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