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Check out the informative graphics in Mashable’s “How 9 Tech Giants Traded After Going Public [Infographic].” On the heels of Facebook’s initial public offering, this write up examines the fates of other tech companies who have gone public. Writer Matt Silverman explains: Given the hubbub (or the hullabaloo, if you really want to get technical), [...]
Updated: 2012-02-04 05:03:33
Digg asks, “Under New Leadership, Will Yahoo Find Its Way?” Our view: nope. The CEO shuffle doesn’t seem to have helped the waning company the last three times they tried it. Installed January 9, Scott Thompson is Yahoo’s newest captain. The article reports: Thompson, who was previously president of eBay’s PayPal unit, might be Yahoo’s [...]
Updated: 2012-02-04 05:01:08
It is no secret that Facebook is the world’s leading social networking site. But it is not every day that you see it leave competitors in the dust. Read Write Web recently reported on the social networking giant in the article “It Only took One Year for Facebook to Beat Orkut in Brazil.” According to [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:57:05
Dr. David Livingston explored the jungles of Africa for adventure and new discoveries, intranet end users search through the webbed jungles of their servers for content and missing files. Content networks are supposed to eliminate search problems, but users usually upload their files without regard to structure and governance. CleverWorkarounds.com wrote a web article series [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:14:42
There has been a lot of talk recently about big data and what to do with it especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. A recent article in Financial Times, Big Innovation Needs ‘Big Data’, gets right to the heart of the issue and lists exactly what CPG must be willing to do to [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:14:40
Social business, social media, anything social and it is written up as a weakness in SharePoint. Widely adopted as a broad solution, SharePoint is not exactly end-user friendly or intuitive. The SharePoint Social blog conquers this very topic in, “39 Solutions for Doing Social Business with SharePoint.” The author proposes: Doing Social Business with SharePoint [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:08:51
IBM makes a social software sale. Did Watson help or is me-too-ism at work? Writer Darryl K. Taft doesn’t say in “Electrolux Taps IBM for Social Software” at eWeek. Looking to bring its workers in 60 countries together for collaboration, appliance maker Electrolux turned to IBM. The new intranet is based on IBM Connections and, [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:08:43
Google could be in trouble, as Business Insider illustrates in “This Chart Shows How Christmas Never Arrived at Google.” The company’s 2011 fourth quarter numbers show its revenues only increased by 25%. Writer Jim Edwards points out that, compared to all other ad-based businesses, that’s actually a good showing. However, the market seems to disagree; [...]
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:07:54
Oracle brews a data latté with cinnamon you may enjoy if you if you suck down this new book. The Salvatoreyc blog presents for download, “Oracle XSQL: Combining SQL, Oracle Text, XSLT and Java to Publish Dynamic Web Content.” The product description states: Welcome to the exciting world of eXtended Structured Query Language (XSQL). ‘Oracle [...]
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SIGN IN SIGN UP Discovering URLs through user feedback Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Xiao Bai Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain B . Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Flavio P . Junqueira Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain 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 doi 10.1145 2063576.2063592 2011 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 65 Downloads 12 Months 65 Citation Count : 0 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save to Binder Export : Formats BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref Upcoming : Conference CIKM'12 : Share : Tags experimentation performance relevance feedback
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: The Noisy Channel ABOUT DISCLOSURE Follow dtunkelang HCIR 2011 : We Have Arrived Interview in Forbes : What is a Data Scientist RecSys 2011 Tutorial : Recommendations as a Conversation with the User October 31st , 2011 2 Comments General Last week , I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems RecSys 2011 Given my passion for HCIR and my advocacy for transparency in recommender systems it shouldn’t surprise regular readers that I focused on both . Unfortunately the tutorial was not recorded , but I hope the slides above prove useful . I also encourage you to take a look at the other tutorials whose slides are posted on the conference . site If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed 2 responses so far 1
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SIGN IN SIGN UP Improving quality of training data for learning to rank using click-through data Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Jingfang Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Chuanliang Chen Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China Gu Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Hang Li Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Elbio Renato Torres Abib Microsoft , Redmond , WA , USA 2010 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 15 Downloads 12 Months 82 Citation Count : 1 Published : in Proceeding WSDM 10 Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining ACM New York , NY USA 2010 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-60558-889-6 doi 10.1145 1718487.1718509 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save
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Justin Zobel Professor and Head , Department of Computing and Information Systems the University of Melbourne Mail : Department of Computer Science Software Engineering , University of Melbourne , Parkville 3010, Australia . Office : Computing Information Systems , Level 4, ICT Building Phone : 61 3 8344 1505, email : jzobel at . unimelb.edu.au Some current activities Editor-in-Chief Asia Australasia International Journal of Information Retrieval Associate editor , ACM Transactions on Information Systems Associate editor , Information Processing Retrieval Associate editor , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Theme leader , bioinformatics , VLSCI Lecturer , Research Methods semester 2 2011. A recent keynote at CIKM 2011 ACM Conference on Information Knowledge Management
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: Haystack Blog MIT CSAIL Research Group Website CIKM 2011 Keynote : User Interfaces that Entice People to Manage Better Information Filed under : News PIM Search Social Computing User Interfaces Visualization by David Karger on Tuesday , 25 October 2011 1 Comment Tags : CSAIL Today I gave a keynote at CIKM 2011 I argued that in addition to all our work on tools the process information for users , we should also be looking at tools that make people better able to apply their innate information processing talents for themselves . I talked about the following tools that reflext that idea , all of which are available for you to try out on the : web List.it a note-taking tool for information scraps capture Nb for social annotation discussion of class lecture notes Feedme for social content
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