April 2011

Six Degrees of Indexing

By |April 20th, 2011

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?

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iGlue On Its Way To Being a Publicly Traded Entity

By |April 20th, 2011

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.

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Semantic Search Technology Awarded a Patent

By |April 20th, 2011

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.

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New Acquisition Beefs up Semantic Search

By |April 19th, 2011

Intertainment Media Inc. has agreed to buy mobile software and app developer Commobility Inc.

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Workshop on Automated Reasoning

By |April 19th, 2011

A workshop on automated reasoning about context and ontology evolution will take place in Barcelona, Spain on July 17-18, 2011.

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The Power Of Survey Taxonomies To Skew The Results The Way You Want Them

By |April 18th, 2011

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.

New Grant Funds Digital Research Center

By |April 18th, 2011

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.

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What Does the Future Hold for Libraries?

By |April 18th, 2011

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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Location Development Tackles Huge Hurdles

By |April 15th, 2011

Fwix founder speaks about the challenges they have faced in location development and their solutions.

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