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Hierarchy of Crowdsourcing

I heard a speaker today vehemently making a point about how much the printing press impacted us as human beings because it made knowledge available to the common man.  Although agree, it pales in comparison with what the Internet is … Continue reading

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Semantic Aggregation And Hive Intelligence

The next iteration of the World Wide Web is, as always, on my mind. I wrote about the future of semantic search in my last post, Semantic Search Goes To Work, and since then I have been reading about little … Continue reading

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Semantic Search Goes To Work

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 … Continue reading

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Search News and Seeing Data

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. … Continue reading

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iPhone Goes to College, Mobile Computing Anyone?

There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for … Continue reading

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The Microsoft Yahoo Hunt – February 23, 2008

I was not sure we should even write another post on this potential deal, but I was giving a speech today in Florida and someone texted a question wanting my opinion onto the screen, so I take it people are … Continue reading

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Sony Wins a Battle, Will Microsoft?

I have been under the weather this week, but I wanted to write a quick post about some interesting items. So let’s dig in. Toshiba has given in and stopped trying to compete against Sony’s Blu-ray system in the high … Continue reading

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Widgetmania and my new assistant, Enso

Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site … Continue reading

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Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Banks Closing – January 11, 2008

So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them … Continue reading

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Technology Story – December 30, 2007

And still more year end review… The world of advertising and marketing continued to mutate based on technology tools in 2007. Ten years ago, advertising was primarily dominated by newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Today, online advertising is growing at … Continue reading

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