Social listening is not eavesdropping like it would seem. The technology has been around for awhile and the buy-in is reaching significant points. So what is social listening? Social listening is the ability to capture consumer comments about products, brands, campaigns, corporations, etc. This knowledge of trends and opinions is valuable, very valuable.
Upstream Commerce’s latest tool in its Retail Intelligence Suite is Assortment Intelligence, which allows retailers to track assortment changes at competitors' websites in real-time, and adjust their own product-mix accordingly.
Last month, Russia held a conference where they brought together some of the foremost Russian and international leaders on artificial intelligence and natural language processing. This first time ever and well attended event featured over 20 presentations.
Expert System has released the latest version of their Cogito semantic technology apparently featuring better support management of Big Data.
A new software for human resources, project, task, and scheduling management has been launched for small or large companies. The new semYOU Cloud Office is a complete software infrastructure for organizations to work globally and collaborate with different partners worldwide.
At the beginning of the year, one author predicted that 2012 would be the year of the semantic web. At the half-way point he is revisiting that to see where those predictions stand now.
Technology continues to amaze us. Remember when a fax machine impressed us? Now they are teaching computers to analyze and understand the real world, or at least they are trying.
History has tried to tell us that paying for search rankings is a very bad thing. However, it is interesting that Google has begun to accept payments for inclusion in some of its newest search products. This was evident recently with its Google Hotel Finder and Google Flight Search, where Google looks to be taking some kind of payment in order to be included in the results. This is also evident with Google Advisor, which offers links to financial services and products.
With Apple's Siri and Kngine responding to both written and spoken questions with text, pictures, graphs, and images, it is hard to argue that the semantic web is any longer a pipe dream. Yet, there are those that are doing just that.
As humans, we need context and narrative to discern the meanings of facial expressions, word usage and many other life situations. This is what makes us different from say, animals and machines.