Not-So-Secret Cell Phone Numbers
April 9, 2010
Tired of unwanted phone calls that show up on caller id only as “unknown name”? Even if the caller is using a cell phone, which many solicitors and crank calls do, you can learn who’s calling you, says private investigator George Martin in “How to look up Unlisted & Unregistered Phone Numbers — Online” on People Records Zone. “Telemarketers, stalkers, prank callers, creditors, and many others could be harassing you under the false assumption that you cannot track them, writes Martin. “Their assumption is false because, thanks to the internet, you can now discover precisely who owns the particular cell phone number that has been calling you. All the recipient has to do is enter the complete phone number into one of many free unlisted-number search directory services, and the caller’s name will be revealed, says Martin. Knowing who is making the calls may not stop all unwanted calls, but if anonymity is important to the caller — especially those with ill intent — it should help.
John Sniffen, April 9, 2010
Post not sponsored.
MarkLogic and the American Institute of Physics
April 9, 2010
MarkLogic, fresh from nailing the University of Virginia account, reported that “American Institute of Physics Utilizes Mark Logic to Launch Publishing Platform.” MarkLogic Server is a software system that can give information-centric organizations a versatile tool for accessing, processing, and repurposing content. According to the write up:
the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a non-profit scholarly publisher, used MarkLogic Server to build its next-generation platform for hosting online publications, Scitation C3. AIP has moved its 12 archival journals to the MarkLogic-based Scitation C3 platform, which hosts 2,000,000 articles from more than 200 science-related publications.
The article continued:
… Scitation C3 features include full-article HTML rendering, improved visual presentation of inline math, and in-context links to references, figures, and tables. AIP now offers “Smart ToCs” that allow users to further customize listings with abstract previews and the ability to hide non-relevant content. AIP has also added more search options and controls to explore content based on article type, topic, author, keyword, PACS, journal, and publication year. In addition, researchers can find information faster by highlighting a term within an article to produce a list of related content.
For more information about Mark Logic, navigate to www.marklogic.com. I will be one of the participants in the upcoming Mark Logic User Conference. Information about that event is available at http://www.marklogic.com/UserConference2010/.
Stephen E Arnold, April 9, 2010
A freebie publicizing my participation in a user conference.
Boston Search Engine Meeting and Exalead
April 9, 2010
The Evvie Award recognizes outstanding work in the field of search and content processing. Ev Brenner, one of the original founders of the Boston Search Engine Meeting emphasized the need to acknowledge original research and innovative thinking. After Mr. Brenner died, the Boston Search Engine Meeting, then owned by a company in the UK, instituted the Evvie award. This year, the Evvie is sponsored by Exalead, one of the leaders in search-based applications and ArnoldIT.com, are sponsoring the award. in addition to a cash recognition of $1,000, the recipient receives the Evvie shown below.
For more information about the premier search and content processing conference, navigate to the Search Engine Meeting Web site. You can review the program and pre conference activities.
For more information about Exalead, navigate to the Exalead Web site. You can see a demonstration of the Exalead system on the ArnoldIT.com site here and you can explore next generation search and content processing innovations at Exalead’s “labs” site.
For more information about the award, click here.
Stephen E Arnold, April 9, 2010
This post is sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, Exalead, and Information Today, Inc.
Murdoch and Google: Temperature Rising
April 8, 2010
I read “Rupert Murdoch defiant: ‘I’ll Stop Google Taking Our News for Nothing’” and realized that Google may find the business temperature rising. The period between 2006 and 2008 was a period of relative calm. Since 2009, Google finds itself in the same situation that was going to plague Gulliver. Folks who seemed “small” to Gulliver found ways to tie down Swift’s big boy.
The write up reported that the news industry has to charge for content. For me the most interesting comment in the article was:
“We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognize it,” Murdoch told a packed audience of students, journalists and other media professionals. He said search engines had tapped into a “river of gold” by aggregating content but that the days of free news had to come to an end. “They take [news content] for nothing. They have got this very clever business model,” he said.
Interesting to see if this is the shot that escalates the tension among the Googley and non Googley by an order of magnitude.
I thought that newspapers sold advertising. The news was an important part of the mix, but ads carried the freight. Google moved into advertising and now the newspapers have to find something to sell. Content seems to be it. In my experience, the value of content in an online environment is devilishly hard to make pay at the levels associated with the traditional newspaper method in a pre digital era. I worked at a pretty good newspaper, and I have to say that the newspaper’s ability to create original content has deteriorated over the years. Now with the costs of innovating in software added to existing costs, the executives like Mr. Murdoch have their work cut out for them.
Google is a target, but I don’t think Google is the problem. Google is at a tipping point itself. Innovation won’t do the job. Complicated factors are now operating, and I think the next surprise may be an emergent one. Tough to predict too.
Fascinating.
Stephen E Arnold, April 8, 2010
A freebie.
SSN Minute: Fighting Fragmented Attention
April 8, 2010
David Thimme, ArnoldIT.com analyst, talks about how you can fight fragmented attention in the social media space. You can view the SSN Minute here. The SSN Minute will be undergoing a change beginning in May 2010. You will still get the critical commentary about social media plus additional content.
Stephen E Arnold, April 8, 2010
This is an ArnoldIT.com sponsored post.
Google and Its Idiosyncratic Logic
April 8, 2010
“Opinion: Conroy Is Right to Question Google’s Privacy Record” appeared in IT News, an Australian publication. Google is a company with lots of math whizzes. Math requires logic. The article points out that Google is operating in an inconsistent manner. The issue is Google’s compliance with US laws and its posture regarding laws of other counties. For me the key passage was:
Google is thus in a contradictory position to comment on government interference with a citizen’s data. It says, like the government, that it only wants to interfere with a customer’s data in the case of suspected child porn – which sounds straight out of the Minister’s songbook.
Read the article. Make up your mind.
Stephen E Arnold, April 8, 2010
A freebie.
Search Engines Exposed, Well, Not Exactly
April 8, 2010
What a great link bait title! “Search Engines’ Dirty Secret”. The idea in the story is a bit different from the exposé that the addled goose expected. The New Scientist article tackles the burning issue of the cost of a search. The angle is not the costs divided by the number of searches. Nope. The analysis focuses on the information that “Google’s data centres contain nearly a million servers.” The source? My benchmark azure chip consulting firm, Gartner Group. With some calculations, the physicist author arrives at the conclusion a search “costs” for 10 million search results per hour as the same as turning on a 100 watt light bulb for an hour.
Do you know the cost of turning on a 100 watt light bulb for one hour? I didn’t. Well, there you go.
Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2010
No one paid us to write this article. How much does zero cost cost? Hmmm.
iPad: Wall Street Journal Looks for Silver Lining
April 8, 2010
I don’t want to make big deal of the news story “Ipad Sales Fall Short of Estimates.” For me, the key point is captured is this statement:
…today [April 6, 2010[ the Wall Street Journal published a statement from Apple which said that more than 300,000 Ipads were sold on day one. This would be considered great, but if you take into account the fact the figure included all the pre-sales and the hype that said a million would be flogged on Day One that number is dismal. According to the WSJ, Wall Street took a deep breath when analysts heard the figures.
Those iPads have to sell to generate the money from the publishers’ for fee content. Without lots of iPads, we won’t know if iPad users become big buyers of for fee content. The Wall Street Journal and some other “real” journalistic operations have great expectations for the iPad and its hoped for ability to convert rich media consuming folks into magazine, book, and newspaper readers.
Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2010
A freebie.
iPad Search Apps
April 7, 2010
Short honk: At lunch one of the goslings mentioned “8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps.” I took a look at the listings and thought that iPad lovers would want at least one of these. If I were younger, I would probably dive into iPad search. For now, I will float in the goose pond and watch the apples drop from the tree.
Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2010
A freebie. No worms. No core. No Apple iPad.
Index Engines Reveals Appliance Costs Savings
April 7, 2010
I am on the look out for information about metrics in enterprise search. I received the Index Engines’ newsletter “Index Engines Update April 2010”. The lead item “Did you know?” contained this set of statements:
Index Engines’ partner, Integreon, recently realized dramatic reduction of 75% cost and 50% time in processing an ESI collection project for their client. Read the white paper and learn how they processed a backup tape collection in 2005 using PowerControls and then again in 2009 using Index Engines. This paper compares the two technologies and presents the impressive cost and time savings.
I could not locate a link to see the access from the company’s Web site. Index Engines has a Web log, but it does not contain the same information that appears in the newsletter.
To get more detail, you can obtain a white paper here.
Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2010
The post is not sponsored.
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