Let’s face it… sometimes you just skim through those documents, websites, blogs or news articles because you just don’t have the time to digest it all. We all do it, but what if there were something that could help you skim through a document and quickly identify the key sentences for you? I ran across
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Back in March, I wrote an “Open Letter to New Lexis.com” where I asked that they “let everyone know exactly who you are, what you can do, and how much you are going to cost us.” Last week, I talked with Marc Osborn and Jorge Martinez of LexisNexis and they gave me a
For some reason, I missed the announcement last week of this “concept” phone from design wiz Billy May (the designer, not the recently deceased Milly Mays of OxyClean fame). If you haven’t watched this video of what a phone could do, you need to. It looks simply amazing.
I’m wondering if something like this will
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I’ve been using Sunlight Labs’ “Congress” app for the Android phone for a couple of months now and still enjoy the amount of information I am able to get from it. The idea is simple, but extremely useful if you want to track what your federal representative or Senator is doing back in D.C.
While I was attempting to find an article yesterday, I stumbled upon an interesting looking search tool called Interceder (apparently a Spanish word meaning “to intercede”). This dashboard approach at search results definitely caught my eye because it had so much information strategically placed in what looks very similar to SharePoint Widgets. When I ran
I’ve always thought I wrote my blog posts in the tradition of great writers like Jonathan Swift, and now I have the data to back up my claim. The website “I Write Like” allows you to paste in some of your writings and it will analyze it against the writings against a list
If I were to say the phrase “Temporal Analytics Engine” to you, would you think I was quoting something off of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well, it would turn out that (this time at least) you would be wrong. A temporal analytics engine (TAE) is actually a method of searching documents that discuss related
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With Google’s announcement yesterday that it is going to wind down Google Wave at the end of the year and move the pieces around to other products, the blogosphere and twitterverse have been full of “Ha!! You early adopters can suck it!!” comments. There’s also a lot of discussion of
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It’s been a while since we’ve mentioned anything about Wolfram Alpha’s “computational knowledge engine”, but they released a neat little tool to create your own widgets. The widget builder makes it very easy to set up your own widget where you set up your input and allow that input to be manipulated.
For example,
I know that with the exception of Flipboard for the iPad, that BlindType has been getting a lot of talk around the mobile webisphere (can I trademark “webisphere”??) But if you haven’t seen this “soon to be released” product yet, you need to take a look. It will change the way you text (especially those