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eHow.com - Crowdsourced "How to Do Just About Everything"
Fascinating example of a crowdsource powered business - the secret is, volume, and yet unlike many crowdsourcing initiatives, the sources make money from their contributions, as does eHow as a business, by selling advertising surrounding the content (text and/or video).
Twitterfall
Browser-based "realtime" twitter stream, based on search terms you control. Quite flexible, seems to be very stable, built with a "presentation mode" to remove all navigation extras for "live" streams in conferences, etc..
Boost Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) using Permalinks
Fairly ancient post (2005), but still as relevant today as it ever was. Makes the case for permalinks that are MEANINGFUL, for search bots as well as for people.
Google Audio Indexing: Keyword Searches for Political Videos - ReadWriteWeb
Findability of a different sort - Google Audio Indexing (or GAUDI - not the architect, nor the Alan Parsons album) is up and running in the Google Labs, enabling text-based search of political videos on YouTube. Again, more than one way to approach findab
Shazam - The amazing music discovery engine. Join our Community
Many paths to audio search - in this case, you take an iPhone, an iPhone app (Shazam), turn on the mic for Shazam to listen to a clip (playing on your car radio perhaps), and matches the clip to find the artist, album, etc.. Findability - it's not just se
Blocks and Files - The world of search is not enough
Brief writeup by Martin Edwards - Appreciate the coverage, but disagree that any of our research is slanted towards selling technology (for anyone). Seemed quite clear to me that we're saying technology isn't the answer by itself, and search definitely is
Microsoft Shoots and Scores with Powerset Purchase
Ron Miller asked for some commentary on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset, and he's once again pulled together an interesting article on the world of search. See todays aiimALERT for more commentary as well. Thanks Ron!
Twitter / David Berlind: AIIM: Survey reveals 82% strongly agreed...
Thanks for the tweet @dberlind... AIIM: Survey reveals 82% strongly agreed or agreed that finding information on the Web was easier than finding information in organizations.
CIO Magazine: Study: Companies Need Better Enterprise Search - CIO.com
Deeper dive into our forthcoming Findings on Findability. Chris Lynch interviewed Carl Frappaolo to peel beneath our initially shocking findings. Thanks for the coverage Chris.
Baseline Magazine: Enterprise Search Just Not There Yet
Our Findings on Findability Failings (leads the article) seem to be resonating pretty deeply. Thanks for the coverage Ericka.
Enterprise Search Frustrates Users by Wall Street & Technology
Referencing AIIM Market Intelligence data on Findability and Enterprise Search
Digital Web Magazine - Better Living Through Taxonomies
Always heartening to see Taxonomy practitioners who not only see that taxonomy is not just about navigation, but explains it well. There's more to Findability than search OR navigation folks.
kannuu™ - stop searching, start finding
Interesting demo of partial word completion on mobiles, via kannuu. Alternative to type-ahead, similar end result.
David Weinberger
If you don't already know David Weinberger's blog, or his many books, please stop now and get thee to a browser, Kindle, library, bookstore. He's seen the future coming from quite a ways away. David is on our Enterprise 2.0 Advisory Panel as well.
Voices.com - #1 Voice Over Website - Voice Overs, Voice Talent and Voice Actors
Adsense ads turn up the strangest things - here is a 'voice over' marketplace, for voice talent to use for commercials, e-learning, voicemail, films, games, etc.. Wow - interesting to see the market for niche marketplaces like this. If you have a distinct
Sinequa
A French search company - just became aware of them, will be briefing with them shortly.
Ruby Classifier - Bayesian and LSI classification library
A ruby module for classification purposes - anyone using this?
Boing Boing: NYT discovers the "Plam Pilot" phenomenon
links to NYT article on trolls that snatch up misspelled eBay merchandise cheaply (since they can't be found), and turn them around for a proper profit. Link to earlier piece on "metacrap" by Cory Doctorow a few years back
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