• Two Pundits and Their Punditry

    Updated: 2012-03-31 12:14:52
    I find the notion of pundits fascinating. The US in 2012 pivots on a news hook, the Warhol fame thing, and a desire to share viewpoints to Flipbook and Pulse users. This morning I was listening to the crackle of small arms fire in rural Kentucky. Dawn had not yet extended its crepuscular reach to [...]

  • Give SharePoint PDFs ID Numbers

    Updated: 2012-03-31 06:17:22
    On a daily basis I work with hundreds of PDF files and in order for me to keep track of them, I assign each an ID number. If one goes missing, I automatically know who the MIF (missing in filing, trying to play off MIA—ha ha!) document is and I can locate another copy. As [...]

  • SAS Gets More Visual

    Updated: 2012-03-31 06:12:14
    Inxight (now owned by BusinessObjects, part of the SAP empire)  is history at SAS or almost history. Now the company is moving in a different direction. Jaikumar Vijayan writes about a new visual analytics application recently unveiled by SAS in his article “SAS Promises Pervasive BI with New Tool.” Einstein is believed to have once [...]

  • A Road Map for Censorship

    Updated: 2012-03-31 06:02:20
    David Bamman, Brendan O’Connor, Noah A. Smith  present some interesting facts based on a study they wrote about in their article, Censorship and Deletion Practices in Chinese Social Media.  Their study touches on a variety of different aspects regarding how China allegedly controls the intake and outflow of information. The Chinese government methods are far [...]

  • Love Lost between Stochastic and Google AppEngine

    Updated: 2012-03-30 10:01:14
    Stochastic Technologies’ Stavros Korokithakis has some very harsh words for Google’s AppEngine in “Going from Loving AppEngine to Hating it in 9 Days.” Is the Google shifting its enterprise focus? Stochastic’s service Dead Man’s Switch got a huge publicity boost from its recent Yahoo article, which drove thousands of new visitors to the site. Preparing [...]

  • SharePoint A Key Tool in the Collaboration Network

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:56:51
    You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. We have all learned about how overwhelming it can be to navigate the many social networking web sites and to monitor the professional work network at the same time. Enterprise 2.0 is a confusing digital world, but there are techniques and others tools to help monitor it. ZDNet’s Oliver [...]

  • Michael Moody Joins Lucid Imagination

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:20:09
    Market Watch recently reported on Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene and Solr search technology, in the article “Lucid Imagination Names Software Development Luminary Michael Moody Senior Vice President of Engineering.” According to the article, Michael Moody brings more than 30 years of software engineering to the search technology company.  He has held [...]

  • Attensity Sallies into the Insurance Sector

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:15:09
    Insurance Networking News recently reported on a new application that is designed to enable insurers to analyze unstructured data in the article “Insurance – Specific Social Analytics Software Launched.” According to the article, Attensity, a provider of social analytics and engagement solutions, is working to help insurance companies make their claims processes more efficient by [...]

  • Improving Governance Compliance in SharePoint

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:14:30
    Jeremy Thake addresses the important issue of governance compliance in, “SharePoint Gone Wild: When Governance Lacks Compliance.” Many organizations employ multiple repositories for sensitive content, and an out-of-the-box SharePoint system makes it hard to enforce the guidelines of where content should go. Thake explains, “The out-of-the-box auditing features in SharePoint 2010 have some key limitations [...]

  • Newspapers Losing Revenue: Time for a Change

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:12:14
    Newspaper acquisition time? I was surprised by a headline I landed on while browsing Business Week; an article titled, “Newspapers Lose $10 in Print for Every Digital $1” grabbed my attention. According to the article, newspapers in the United States lost $10 in print advertising revenue in 2011 for every dollar gained online. The article [...]

  • Recommind looking to Predictive Coding to improve eDiscovery search

    Updated: 2012-03-29 18:45:00
    Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Lucid positioning for success in open source search Main March 29, 2012 Recommind looking to Predictive Coding to improve eDiscovery search Recommind the search vendor best known for its focus on eDiscovery , has recently blogged about predictive coding and their use of it in the product line . What , you may ask , is predictive coding The blog post above does a good job of providing background and some . definition Craig Carpenter , the author of the post , makes it clear that predictive coding is an assist for human reviewers it is technology that is useful in conjunction with people and workflow . It assists the process of identifying critical concepts and using the information in this case ,

  • SharePoint 2010 Search Center Improvement

    Updated: 2012-03-28 18:29:51
    Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe The importance of context in enterprise search Main March 28, 2012 SharePoint 2010 Search Center Improvement Our friends over at Arcovis  are hosting a SharePoint Shoptalk webinar Thursday 3 29 that SP search admins and business line managers should attend . 0160 5 Little things you can do to make a big impact on your SharePoint Search Center will address steps that you can take to improve search in SharePint . Paul Olenick is the speaker , and he certainly knows his . stuff Register here Posted by NIE at 11:29:51 AM in FS4SP SharePoint Technorati Tags improving search search center SharePoint Search TrackBack TrackBack URL for this : entry http : www.typepad.com services trackback

  • The importance of context in enterprise search

    Updated: 2012-03-28 17:36:22
    Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Webinar : Is bad metadata costing you money Main SharePoint 2010 Search Center Improvement March 28, 2012 The importance of context in enterprise search For years we have talked about the important of context when it comes to enterprise search . we blogged about it as long ago as 2007 and we stressed that the context of the user , the content , and the query all need to be considered between the time the user click Search' and the search platform gets the extended query . As an example , we've used things like Google's special treatment of 12-digit numbers that match the algorithm for FedEx tracking numbers . 0160 Now it appears that Google has started plans to expand their use of context as

  • Webinar: Is bad metadata costing you money?

    Updated: 2012-03-23 07:47:12
    : Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Making sense of the Lexmark ISYS acquisition Main March 23, 2012 Webinar : Is bad metadata costing you money We've planned a webinar that will help identify whether you have a metadata problem , what you can do to fix it , and how to justify the . cost Despite what some vendors claim , enterprise search platforms rely on good metadata in order to deliver quality results . Yet few organizations have the resources to attack their metadata problems , so findability suffers and users lament Why don't we use Google Search managers know that even the Google Search Appliance , without quality metadata , can't deliver the internet search experience end users know , love , and trust . Yet it's hard to

  • Facebook Paves Way for Huge Growth in Advertising NYTimes.com

    Updated: 2012-03-20 10:04:27
    Log In Register Now Help Home Page Today's Paper Video Most Popular Edition : . U.S Global Search All NYTimes.com Business Day Media Advertising World . U.S N.Y . Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Global DealBook Markets Economy Energy Media Personal Tech Small Business Your Money Substantial Growth in Ads Is on the Way to Facebook By TANZINA VEGA Published : February 29, 2012 Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Facebook s hundreds of millions of users could soon be faced with a lot more advertising in their newsfeed , on their mobile devices and even when they log off . Enlarge This Image Mike Segar Reuters Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook at Wednesday's announcement . Facebook hopes to take advantage of more mobile advertising . Add

  • MOOCs Large Courses Open to All Topple Campus Walls NYTimes.com

    Updated: 2012-03-20 10:04:26
    , , Log In Register Now Help Home Page Today's Paper Video Most Popular Edition : . U.S Global Search All NYTimes.com Education World . U.S Politics Education Bay Area Chicago Texas N.Y . Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls Max Whittaker for The New York Times Sebastian Thrun , left , a Stanford professor , and Andy Brown , a course manager , recording in their studio in Palo Alto , Calif . By TAMAR LEWIN Published : March 4, 2012 Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints The pitch for the online course sounds like a late-night television ad , or maybe a subway poster : Learn programming in seven weeks starting Feb . 20. We'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a Web

  • Pew Study Finds Ads on News Web Sites Are Missing Users NYTimes.com

    Updated: 2012-03-20 10:04:25
    Log In Register Now Help Home Page Today's Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Business Day Media Advertising World . U.S N.Y . Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Global DealBook Markets Economy Energy Media Personal Tech Small Business Your Money Study Finds News Sites Fail to Aim Ads at Users By TANZINA VEGA Published : February 13, 2012 Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Web sites for newspapers , magazines and television stations might be hungry to make money with digital advertising , but you wouldn't know it by the way some of them do business online . Enlarge This Image The Economist's home page is not unusual in displaying ads for the company's products . A new study released Monday by the Pew

  • Vannevar Bush: His future, our present

    Updated: 2012-03-14 13:58:00
    : , Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Solr essentials Training : Lucid Imagination Main March 14, 2012 Vannevar Bush : His future , our present In the last few weeks I've been reading Your life , Uploaded' by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell . The book talks about MyLifeBits' , one of the Microsoft Research projects . In it , the authors talk about the process of capturing your life digitally . It sounds a bit compulsive to me , but you never know : I used to think texting was something only kids did , and yet I now use text messages to communicate with other folks in our company nearly every . day Anyway , the book mentioned Vannevar Bush one of the little known pioneers of the internet who was born in 1890 and who passed away in

  • Microsoft Research Site Down

    Updated: 2012-03-14 10:28:51

  • Learning to Target What Works for Behavioral Targeting Yahoo Research

    Updated: 2012-03-10 09:53:50
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  • Learning to target

    Updated: 2012-03-10 09:53:49
    Full Text Link is expired or malformed . Try again . below SIGN IN SIGN UP Learning to target : what works for behavioral targeting Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Sandeep Pandey Yahoo , Santa Clara , CA , USA Mohamed Aly Yahoo , Santa Clara , CA , USA Abraham Bagherjeiran ThinkersR.Us , Sunnyvale , CA , USA Andrew Hatch Yahoo , Santa Clara , CA , USA Peter Ciccolo Google , Mountain View , CA , USA Adwait Ratnaparkhi 33Across , Sunnyvale , CA , USA Martin Zinkevich Yahoo , Santa Clara , CA , USA 2011 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 51 Downloads 12 Months 137 Citation Count : 0 Published : in Proceeding CIKM 11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management ACM New York , NY USA 2011 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-4503-0717-8

  • Research I university Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

    Updated: 2012-03-10 09:53:18
    , Research I university From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search Research I university was a category previously used by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to indicate those universities that engaged in extensive research . activity In the 1994 edition of the Carnegie Classification , Research I universities were defined as those : which Offer a full range of baccalaureate programs Are committed to graduate education through the doctorate Give high priority to research Award 50 or more doctoral degrees each year Receive annually 40 million or more in federal support 1 The Carnegie Foundation reported that 59 institutions met these criteria in 1994. 2 In their interim 2000 edition of the classification , the Carnegie Foundation renamed

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