Monday, August 23, 2010
Ranker
Great new site Ranker about Lists, Rankings, Top Tens, Best Ofs – list making for all sorts of categories. You can find or make a Top 10 list or Top 100 list of just about anything. It’s a great place to see how anything you are interested ranks. For examples check out all kinds of best movies lists or top 10 music lists. You can also find more practical lists like college rankings
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Interesting Reads
Ill update with my comments about these later...hopefuly :)
Sociocast Unveils Personalization Platform
Sociocast Networks introduced this week its personalization and discovery technology, which will blossom first in a fashion site to be privately tested in October. Based on a combination of artificial intelligence and social network dynamics, the content delivery platform aims to leverage “associative memories” and “influencer networks” to help users find the information they want without having to create filters to encapsulate their desires.
http://www.semanticweb.com//article.php/3774951
An Open-Source Trip into the Semantic Web - TripBlox
The idea is that users can publish trip information on their own blogs, using XHTML or hAtom microformats and some semantic web markups, so that TripBlox can become aware of the existence of the formatted data. It will consume that information and pull it together with related information to become something of a search engine for trip ideas.
http://www.semanticweb.com//article.php/3756701
Sociocast Unveils Personalization Platform
Sociocast Networks introduced this week its personalization and discovery technology, which will blossom first in a fashion site to be privately tested in October. Based on a combination of artificial intelligence and social network dynamics, the content delivery platform aims to leverage “associative memories” and “influencer networks” to help users find the information they want without having to create filters to encapsulate their desires.
http://www.semanticweb.com//article.php/3774951
An Open-Source Trip into the Semantic Web - TripBlox
The idea is that users can publish trip information on their own blogs, using XHTML or hAtom microformats and some semantic web markups, so that TripBlox can become aware of the existence of the formatted data. It will consume that information and pull it together with related information to become something of a search engine for trip ideas.
http://www.semanticweb.com//article.php/3756701
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Been too long!!
Sorry havnt had time to write in a long while! I promise ill be back soon when i have a chance to breathe!
Cheers!
Cheers!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Semantic Technology Conference
The Semantic Technology Conference was this past week in San Jose, CA. Unfortunately i was unable to attend this year but a few of my co-workers where able to attend. Gathering a crowd of 1000 plus people ( up from 600 last year) I expect this year's conference to generate a significant buzz around the big players as well as some new up and coming ones.
Stay tuned for more once i can sync up with my colleages.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Google's Punch to the Gut?
First Facebook's Slap in the face and now this? Definitely seems like MS is gathering up some resources doesnt it?Scobleizer makes some interesting points around all this.
Even though MS is trailing behind Yahoo and Google in search if MicroHoo goes through then MS's vested interest in Facebook becomes VERY interesting. I read another article recently ( ill try to dig up the link later) that proposed away for a company like MircoHoo or some variant of to oust Google as the search King.
Remember that search is first and foremost about relevance. If the users stop finding what they want on your search engine... it wont be long before you become AltaVista of the search grave yard. The article pointed out that if another search giant decided to poach the top 1% of search results for the top 25% of keyword searches things can change quite drastically. By offering these publishers some sort of an incentive to remove themselves from Google's indexing ( and assuming they bite..which they wouldnt have much reason to not right?), Google would take a significant hit on revenue alone.
Of course this is all here say and only someone like MicroHoo could possibly pull it off but it definitely plays into the hands of Microsofts buy everything mentality doesnt it?
If mircosoft were to either purchase or create some joint venture with yahoo search and then subsequently buy facebook the hand down a similar path. If google cannot access information within the Facebook network but MicrHoo could relavence for search all of sudden becomes VERY important.
Atleast at face value this doesnt seem like an entirely new concept to me. Think AOL back in the early 90s. Basically a walled garden that everyone couldnt wait to break out of because there was SO much more to the net than the pretty little world AOL showed us. What MS is trying to do here is create that same walled garden but claim the entire web.
The last decade was search and we have already started on the next big thing which is social networks. Combining the two is definitely where everyone knows we need to go ( case in point: myspace data portability, google friend connect, facebook connect, yahoo search monkey). Everyone is gearing up for the war... fast forward 5 years and i guarantee you will be surprised by the causalities.
Even though MS is trailing behind Yahoo and Google in search if MicroHoo goes through then MS's vested interest in Facebook becomes VERY interesting. I read another article recently ( ill try to dig up the link later) that proposed away for a company like MircoHoo or some variant of to oust Google as the search King.
Remember that search is first and foremost about relevance. If the users stop finding what they want on your search engine... it wont be long before you become AltaVista of the search grave yard. The article pointed out that if another search giant decided to poach the top 1% of search results for the top 25% of keyword searches things can change quite drastically. By offering these publishers some sort of an incentive to remove themselves from Google's indexing ( and assuming they bite..which they wouldnt have much reason to not right?), Google would take a significant hit on revenue alone.
Of course this is all here say and only someone like MicroHoo could possibly pull it off but it definitely plays into the hands of Microsofts buy everything mentality doesnt it?
If mircosoft were to either purchase or create some joint venture with yahoo search and then subsequently buy facebook the hand down a similar path. If google cannot access information within the Facebook network but MicrHoo could relavence for search all of sudden becomes VERY important.
Atleast at face value this doesnt seem like an entirely new concept to me. Think AOL back in the early 90s. Basically a walled garden that everyone couldnt wait to break out of because there was SO much more to the net than the pretty little world AOL showed us. What MS is trying to do here is create that same walled garden but claim the entire web.
The last decade was search and we have already started on the next big thing which is social networks. Combining the two is definitely where everyone knows we need to go ( case in point: myspace data portability, google friend connect, facebook connect, yahoo search monkey). Everyone is gearing up for the war... fast forward 5 years and i guarantee you will be surprised by the causalities.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Semantic Targeting 4.0
Search 4.0 Search Ads and Behavioral Targeting
From: jonathanmendez, 4 weeks ago
SMX West Presentation 2008
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