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…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

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…

JacobMorgan
5 Min Read

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…

Daniel Tunkelang
4 Min Read

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…

TomAnderson
3 Min Read

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…

Daniel Tunkelang
3 Min Read

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…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

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…

Peter James Thomas
20 Min Read

#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…

brianfarnan1
8 Min Read

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…

DavidMSmith
1 Min Read

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…

BobGourley
1 Min Read