Show Me the Money
By 2025, the Winklevoss twins, more known for their legal battles with former classmate Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, predicts a “cashless society” will dominate with the virtual currency bitcoin.
Among Good Company
TEMIS joins the prestigious list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management. KM World made their annual announcement recently as they recognize the top industry influencers in content, document, and knowledge management.
Emojis: Communication without Words
Each year since 2000, the Global Language Monitor has selected the Top Words of the Year, which they derive through statistical analysis of word usage. Some may have thought the organization had gone insane this year when they announced the selections for 2014 because, at the very top of the list was not a word at all, but the heart emoji. It's true; a tiny cartoon heart got used so often last year that it supplanted all other actual words.
Intelligence of All Kinds
Artificial intelligence has come a long way from the character Data on Star Trek and even farther from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is now part of our daily habits, i.e. Apple's Siri.
NFAIS Conference Coming Soon
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Conference is coming soon to Maryland. Check your calendars for the February 22-24, 2015 event. Information services are essential in everyday decision-making. The demand is growing to create relationships among linked data sources and formats has raised expectations for improved discoverability and accessibility.
Techie Terms
Every year, additional words and phrases are added to our dictionaries. Many of them are technology-driven as evidenced by hashtag, selfie, and big data, which were all added to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary in 2014. Among the many new terms added, four specifically fall into the aforementioned technology group.
Technology’s Impact
Technology has changed our behavior. We often ponder what we did prior to the existence of the Internet search engine.
Control the Chaos
Mark your calendars today to plan on attending the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) conference on March 18-20, 2015 in sunny San Diego, California. This unique moment in time when the acceleration of technology change is forcing organizations to reinvent themselves, new approaches are needed. You can find those at the AIIM Conference 2015 and help your organization embrace the chaos.
Let the Geeks Celebrate
Those of us in the world of taxonomies understand the importance of consistency and standards. So when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently published a Recommendation of HTML5, the fifth major revision of the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform, we got a little excited.