This NY Times article about some of the new technologies being designed to search the Deep Web is quite a good one. It outlines some of the problems the standard Search Engines have in their attempts to penetrate and index a lot of the data that lies below the surface… and also refers to some [...]
Archive > February 2009
.Tel domains… join THE online directory…
I came across this the other day and have been quite intrigued with it since…
The .Tel initiative aims to create a large online directory for both businesses and individuals, which will list contact information without anyone having to set up any web-pages. Once a company or individual registers a .Tel domain they automatically get connected [...]
Internet Generation… lost the ability to be lonely?
Quite an interesting essay about the internet generation losing their ability to be lonely or spend time in solitude. I’m not sure I completely agree, but I find the concept/notion intriguing. Surely, this is just an evolution of our human instinct to interact? From the article…
If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, [...]
Ubuntu: Cloud Computing to the masses…?
This post on the Wired blog refers to how the next version of the Ubuntu will be looking at adding all the tools for developers to connecting and move their apps onto the Cloud on the Ubuntu Linux OS.
Shuttleworth is hoping that Ubuntu can do for cloud computing what it has done for Linux — [...]
GOOG → GONE?
This is a great post about the real impact to many of us web users and internet ‘workers’… if Google were to suddenly disappear, taking all it’s services with it. I’m usually one of those that gets a little concerned when I see one company with so much power. I’ve certainly been concerned over the [...]
How Social Media sites compare to SEM…
I thought this article by Danny Sullivan on SearchEngine Land very useful… he breaks down and categorizes Social Media sites into the following categories:
* Social News Sites (such as Digg, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz)
* Social Bookmarking Sites (such as Delicious, StumbleUpon)
* Social Networking (such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn)
* Social Knowledge (such as Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers)
* Social [...]
Usability of the web as an extension of your brain…
While this post is a little light, the concept of web usability needing to represent an extension of the human brain… has struck a chord for me. I can tell that as a result my curiosity is going to lead me down an interesting research path. The following excerpt pretty much covers it:
“We are quickly [...]
Semantic Search on Google…
I know it’s already February and it’s time we stopped touting 2009 as the year of x or y…etc. but based on this post on Google Watch it seems Semantic Search is going to become more prevalent in 2009. It looks like Google is thinking about releasing some enhancements to it’s Search Engine that will [...]
Social ‘Engagement’ in Online Travel…
This article/post was written by the CEO of WorldNomads.com and emphasizes the fact that Social Media needs to be considered as a form of Social Engagement rather than a form of ‘Marketing’. It’s true that in 2008 many companies were looking to monetize the Social Networks such as Facebook and Bebo… but I can’t help [...]
Google assigns resellers for Apps…
Not sure if any of you guys saw this a few weeks back, but Google took another encroaching step into Microsoft’s world.
According to TheRegister (and several other blogs) in mid-January Google had assigned several re-sellers (50 so far) to take the charge on selling Google Apps on their behalf.
Google Apps have been around for at [...]
