Financial Times + Endeca = Newssift
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I’m proud to tell readers here about an effort I’ve been…
How do You Define Community?
I was watching Fox News the other day, I don’t remember what show it was but the commentator was talking…
Kosmix: I’m Impressed
One of the recurring objections to exploratory search is that it can’t work for the web. For example, some folks…
The Guy Kawasaki Twitter Bump – Anderson Analytics Facebook Application
Q. What’s the best way to market social networks?A. Other social networks of course.This past week, Anderson Analytics was beta…
Clay Shirky: Save Society, Not Newspapers
There is so much writing about the impeding demise of the newspaper industry that’s it’s becoming easy to tune it…
Challenge: Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark
I asked Aardvark the following question this afternoon: Trying to track down an animated short where a bunch of critters…
Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?
IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace it as a universal panacea capable of addressing…
#1: Here’s a thought…
The first in an occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Hadoop…
Dos and Donts for getting help
This article was written for the IBM developerWorks forum, but the general principles apply equally to posting to the REvolution…
You Really Have to See This: From MIT Media Lab
Words can hardly describe how neat this technology is. I'm excited and enthused for many reasons, including the potential power…