January 2011

New Website Reaching Out to Readers

By |January 11th, 2011

F+W Media have partnered to create a new online venture, NetPlaces.com, which pairs F+W’s content and eCommerce engine with the About.com platform.

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New Visual Recognition Technology Understands Images

By |January 11th, 2011

As technology goes, visual recognition continues to be one of the most talked about areas. So it was no surprise when Cortexica came on the scene and started using algorithms that emulate the visual cortex and the techniques the brain uses to identify and categorize objects.

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Please Bear with Us

By |January 10th, 2011

TaxoDiary has recently changed servers, and a syncing issue has been discovered. Our stories and archives should be back within the hour.

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Technology Raising All Boats

By |January 10th, 2011

Words of encouragement mixed with some motivational challenge for SLA members came from James King, the 2010 President of the Washington, DC Chapter and long-time convener of the Information Futurists Caucus.

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New Partnership Expands Semantic Potential

By |January 10th, 2011

Epic Media Group has partnered with LucidMedia. This new alliance will allow Epic Media Group to deploy interactive advertising campaigns leveraging the LucidMedia demand-side digital advertising management platform.

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A Well-Constructed Thesaurus

By |January 10th, 2011

A thesaurus is a special type of controlled vocabulary, which is itself a list of specifically selected terms to represent a set of concepts - concepts described in an electronic collection of documents, podcasts, captioned photos, emails, or other types of content.

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Visioning the Future of Cloud Computing

By |January 7th, 2011

Cloud computing has exploded. So much so that it makes you wonder what the future holds for this technological evolution. That is exactly what one writer did as he meticulously described a future data center and the artificial intelligence that will run it.

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Dragon View 5.1 Released

By |January 7th, 2011

Rivet Software has released Dragon View 5.1, an upgraded version of software that simplifies the review and analysis of documents created in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format, the standard required for financial filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Getting Sentimental

By |January 7th, 2011

Sentiment360, Inc. a social media monitoring and analytics company has announced that it has completed the acquisition of artificial intelligence text mining technology from Enkia Corporation.

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New Recipe Site Uses Semantic Technology For a Healthy Result

By |January 6th, 2011

Yummly, the world's first semantic recipe search engine, brings together and understands recipes from all over the web. This new tool is designed to help people meet their nutritional and weight loss goals by making it easy to adopt and maintain healthy eating habits in 2011 and beyond.