When I got my iPad earlier this year, the first app I actually ponied up real money for was a song recognition app called SoundHound. It is no secret to my friends and family that I love punk bands with female lead singers. So, when I run across a new-to-me band that I like,
[Note: Another brilliant Guest Post from our unofficial 4th Geek, Laura Walters] LinkedIn has become the most popular of the professionally focused social media sites, and therefore a goldmine for various competitive intelligence tidbits, sometimes disclosed inadvertently. What I particularly love about LinkedIn is the web you begin to detect between contacts and their
I got the idea for this multi-part post because Melissa Sachs has taken on the project of trying to find as many people as she can that work in AmLaw law firms that have Twitter accounts (#AMLAWTweeple). It’s a great work in progress, and you should go check out the list (and contribute
Scott Karp, co-founder & CEO of Publish2, Inc, recently published a blog on How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links.
In the war between print and online content, he makes a valid point: Google’s role is to not steal content but to promote links.
Taking this point one step further,
A friend of mine mentioned on Twitter that she was “loving” the FeeFieFoeFirm website this morning. I’ve looked at that site in the past, but never really took the time to do any serious searching on it. The timing of this reminder couldn’t have been better. I just happened to be thinking of a project
Two articles in yesterday’s Financial Times struck my fancy:
Retailer buys ‘social’ search engine
Google to match online adverts with web users’ viewing habits
What Google and Sears–yes, Sears, the seller of all things American–are heading towards behavioral search engines that look at a person’s online activity and social networking profiles to determine their interests
Having touched on Semantic Search in general terms, this post explores it in a bit more detail. Having watched a series of webcasts from Semantic Universe on the tools of Web 3.0, I have been on the lookout for interesting semantic applications that shed more light on the power of Web 3.0. From my subscription
