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Semantic Search Goes To Work

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

We are increasingly tied to data. Business has always been about the data, whether it is how to successfully grow crops, trade money, or even building cars; all businesses are really the business of knowing how to do something.  The massive amounts of information that our corporations produce on a ...

Online Advertising Unpacked

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I have wanted to write a few news-streams to discuss with you the progress being made in the online advertising market.  This is a fascinating area of growth that impacts all of us because it is changing how marketers get to us, and the level of privacy we will have ...

Social Community Rant

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I am a fan of social community sites and I think that the social networking aspect of the Web 2.0 trend is at the forefront of innovation right now.  I love the feel of a community when it has a solid platform, a strong current of interaction and a lot ...

Amazon and Microsoft Announcements

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Microsoft Gets Serious About Data Optimization I am impressed with the recent move Microsoft has made into the database vertical with the purchase of an Israeli company, Zoomix, which will be moving their offices into the Microsoft Israel R&D Center.  The additional applications and intellectual property will become part of the ...

Google Joins the Virtual World

Monday, July 14th, 2008

For months now I have been talking about virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe, and I always end the discussion by mentioning that it is only a matter of time until Google gets into the act.  Last week they announced their first foray into the virtual space with Lively.  Although I was ...

Work Anywhere

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Apple Goes Mobile With the recent announcement by Apple that the .Mac platform is morphing into the new MobileMe system, I think I am going to make a conscious choice to work at home from now on.  MobileMe is a push technology that offers your email, calendar, contacts and files all ...

Search News and Seeing Data

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Microsoft Grabs Powerset Microsoft is bolstering its search strategy by buying Powerset today.  If you are not familiar with Powerset, you will be.  Powerset searches the Wikipedia site, nothing amazing there, but they do it in a slightly different way. When you use a search engine on the Internet today, you are ...

The Next Generation of the Internet - Third Installment

Monday, June 30th, 2008

One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment.  It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go.  If you are not aware of the ...

The gPhone… Should I wait?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

One of the hardest things for me to do as a technology guy is to be patient when a new product comes out.  When the iPhone was announced, I was torn between my greed to have the latest, and my grown up awareness that the price would drop and the ...

More WiMAX Goodness

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Back on April 11th I wrote about the future of WiMAX and how I see it changing the way we view the Internet.  Since then we have seen some significant movement in the WiMAX space.  Sprint's XOHM and Clearwire combined their networks to create a mobile broadband company with an ...

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