The Connected Economy (5)
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As the financial markets battle the fallout of years of poorly regulated unwise greed, the language of analysis is revealing. Commentators talk of "contagion spreading", financial "gears jammed", and "turbulent" markets. This is the language of non-obvious connection, where it's theoretically possible but impossible in practice to predict the future state. Listening to This American Life's new episode on the spreading financial market failures brought this home. It talked about Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and ...
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Tyler said:
While a lengthy discussion of economic markets...the line "Nodes often aren't as important as the connections between them." is very telling. The network can often be viewed as the sum of the nodes (and hopefully adds value to those nodes).
WWW IST TOT - HOCH LEBE DAS WWN (1)
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Seit fast 20 Jahren gibt es das Konzept vom World Wide Web basierend auf den visionären Gedanken von Tim Berners-Lee und seiner Forschung am CERN-Institut in Genf. Das Internet greifbar zu machen und Web-Standards für die breite Nutzung zu entwickeln dauerte seit 1989 knapp vier Jahre, bis die Idee von Theorie und Praxis am 30. April 1993 zu einem öffentlichen Medium avancierte. Die ersten Webseiten gaben Informationen preis, das WWW wuchs zu einer kritischen Masse ...
Die Anderen (1)
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Kassenzone - Commerce, Mobile, Technologie (2)
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Als ich vor ein paar Tagen den Artikel von Spiegel Online zu Entertainment-Shopping gelesen habe ist mir mal wieder bewusst geworden, dass “wir” uns in einer Nische bewegen. Den ganzen Tag denkt man über das Internet nach und stürzt sich auf jeden Hype in der Hoffnung, dass es ein Trend wird. Da ist es eigentlich egal ob man wie wir über Commerce, Technologie und Mobile grübelt, oder sich Gedanken zum Online-Recht bzw. zur Vermessung der ...
Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov - The Interview (1)
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From SEOBOOK When was Quintura launched? What gave you the idea to launch it? What problems were you trying to solve by launching it? Quintura was founded in August 2005 and released its first search application in November of that year. One year later, we launched a web-based search. It was based on visual context-based search concepts that the founders had been developing since 1990s. Quintura was founded to solve several fundamental problems inherent with ...
Angenehme Bildschirmlektüre mit Tofu 2.0 (2)
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Tofu lässt das Lesen am Bildschirm vergnüglicher werden, indem es Texte in zeitungsartige Spalten steckt und das Scrollen in die Horizontale verlegt, um "springende Sätze" zu vermeiden. Zusätzlich steht eine Vollbildansicht zur Wahl und Texte können automatisch in die persönlich bevorzugte Schriftart und -größe gebracht werden. Tofu 2.0 liegt endlich als Universal Binary vor, unterstützt PDF-Dokumente, ist außerdem Freeware und insgesamt uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen.
Creepy, But Effective: Facebook Adds Contextual Image Ads (2)
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Is a picture worth a thousand clicks? You've heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for ...
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konsumkid said:
will i click on this ads? nooooo, the problem is deeper, facebook need another pattern for this
My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com (2)
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Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.
The Word of Mouth Manual, Volume II (6)
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Dave Balter, from the clever word of mouth marketing agency BzzAgent, has a special treat for our Signal vs. Noise readers. His new book, The Word Of Mouth Manual, Volume II, which costs $45 at Amazon, can be downloaded for free in PDF format. It’s a good idea because: 1. Dave put everything he knows about the power of word of mouth onto the pages (and he knows a lot), 2. Dave is self publishing ...
Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality (1)
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Written by Alex Iskold For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search. Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest to all of us, particularly one that takes advantage of long-awaited and much-hyped semantic technologies. But no matter how much progress has been made, most of us are still underwhelmed by the results. In head-to-head comparisons with Google, the results have not come out much different. ...
How Many Friends is Too Many? (5)
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Offline, I have a network of under 50 people that I interact on a regular basis as friends. But online, the concept of "friend" is completely different. On Facebook I have nearer to 250 friends, on Twitter I have just over 300 followers. That's just a blip compared to how many friends some of the true power users on those services have, but it brings to mind the question of how many friends is too ...
The Next-Gen Web: Browser Storage Support (8)
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The next-gen web is starting to gather pace, as this week MySpace integrated Google Gears, Yahoo! announced their new BrowserPlus product and Google launched a browser-based edition of their 3D Earth product. Technologies and formats such as AIR, Silverlight, JavaFX, Gears, XUL, Web Applications 1.0 (DOM5, HTML5 etc.) allow developers to accelerate beyond AJAX and towards a new generation of web applications with better performance, more functionality and tighter desktop integration. Developers and users are ...
Friendfeed Rooms (1)
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Friendfeed ist das Projekt eines Ex-Googlers, das alle möglichen Aktivitäten aus anderen Plattformen aggegriert. Bei den early adopters hat es etwas für Furore aufgrund seiner Simplizät und eines gewissen googligen GUI-Charmes gesorgt. Nunmehr erweitert Friendfeed seine Funktionspalette um “Rooms” = Diskussionsräume. 1 = Gruppenname 2 = Maske zum Erfassen von Text (Textzeile, Linkzeile, Room-Auswahl) 3 = Beiträge inkl Reply-Möglichkeit 4 = Gruppenteilnehmer und Beschreibung simple as this. Aber ein sehr schwacher Diskussionsraum, gibt besse Module/Services, ...
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konsumkid said:
die Potentiale liegen in der tat wo anders :)
Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google (1)
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I just found a more useful way to search than Google. (Sort of.) It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. The site that provides a better search experience than Google? Business social network LinkedIn. Long time readers of this blog know that I have already chronicled my success at using LinkedIn for both business development and recruiting. ...
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konsumkid said:
we will need another layer, not only for friends, also for activities, intensions, topics ...
der Mensch als Diener der Maschine (1)
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einfach mal Zeit nehmen, Ibo hat einen langen Artikel verfasst, in dem er sich Gedanken macht, wie sehr der Mensch mit modernen Informationsmaschinen verwächst und was daraus zu schlussfolgern ist: Der Fixierungs-Code. Schade finde ich es, dass Ibos Gedanken in Richtung Abhängigkeit bzw. gar Sucht driften: Man ist süchtig nach Informationen – und das wird weitestgehend in der Gesellschaft verharmlost. Viele Menschen spüren diese Sucht nach dem Sammeln (Sammelwut) von Informationen am eigenen Leib. Seien ...
Twitter, das Spamproblem und Amazons Werbe-Tweets (1)
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Twitter leidet derzeit unter den ersten Anfängen eines ernsthaften Spamproblems. So hat ein Affiliate-Partner von Preisbock unter dem selbigen Namen unberechtigterweise mal eben 1674 follow-requests bei Twitter rausgehauen. Dem Spuk wurde zwar schnell ein Ende gesetzt, doch er zeigt, wohin der Trend geht. Nun sichern viele den eigenen Firmen-, Blog- oder Markennamen als Twitter Account-Name, um [...]
MediaMill’s Semantic Video Search Engine (1)
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The MediaMill semantic video search engine is bridging the gap between research and applications. It integrates the state-of-the-art techniques developed at the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam of the University of Amsterdam and applies it to realistic problems in video indexing. The techniques employed in MediaMill originate from various disciplines such as image and video processing, computer vision, language technology, machine learning and information visualization. Four Interesting Videos from MediaMill courtesy ReelSEO
Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs (1)
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One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massive installed base of Firefox users. The State of Analytics Today There are three ways to measure web traffic. The first is user-focused and based on software installed on user machines. Services like Alexa ...
