An Innovation for the SEO Industry
April 6, 2012
Short honk: Navigate to “We Got Hacked for SEO, As Did Other Major Technology Sites.” If accurate, the story is that quasi SEO folks gained access to certain “major” information services and put in “juicy links and an occasional canonical tag.” The idea is to generate traffic for a site unknown to the operators of the “major” sites. SEO has broken new ground. Fascinating. Is there a conference for this yet? Another question I am considering is, “If a major technology site is vulnerable, how secure are these “major” outfits’ Web sites?”
Stephen E Arnold, April 6, 2012
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Solve Your SharePoint Storage Problems Before They Start
April 6, 2012
SharePoint is the most highly adopted and used collaborative content platform in the US and it is beginning to see a rise in the world market. With this comes a higher demand on SharePoint storage and, of course, the start of problems. IT Business Edge caught wind of this trend and wrote about “Five SharePoint Storage Performance Killers and How to Fix Them” with the help of Quest Software.
“Rapid user adoption is positive for any organization leveraging SharePoint for content collaboration and version control. As user adoption increases, however, so does the amount of data that must be stored in SharePoint. Content overload can wreak havoc on SharePoint infrastructure, and can become a leading cause of poor performance – not to mention the corresponding management headaches. For example, as the amount of content steadily increases, so does the need to scale database capacity and SQL Server processing power to ensure that performance matches user demand. When this happens, organizations face a dilemma: cope with poor SharePoint performance, or bite the bullet and buy additional SQL storage space and computing power to catch up with demand.”
The article format is very interesting, you scroll through a slideshow of pictures with a description of the problems and how to resolve them. Or so you would think. The pictures are from free-image farms and hardly inspirational. While the problems are identified, only a couple offer tips on how to fix them. The majority of the information simply explains the problem; after reading it you get a “duh” feeling from already knowing the content.
Despite the poor presentation, data storage problems are an issue and I’ll see what I can find that addresses them better. In the meantime, while you have all that content to search through, you will be able to find your information quicker with solidly engineeded methods. Search Technologies offers engineering and consulting services which support search and general purpose SharePoint use cases. To learn more, navigate to www.searchtechnologies.com.
Iain Fletcher, April 6, 2012
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Attivio Hires a New Chief Scientist
April 6, 2012
PR Web recently posted “Attivio Promotes John O’Neil to Chief Scientist,” a new release announcing the promotion of John O’Neil to Chief Scientist at Attivio Inc, a software company specializing in enterprise search solutions and unified information access.
According to the release, in his new role, O’Neil will be responsible for developing and productizing Attivio’s core capabilities as well as working with the company’s Technology Advisory Board to drive corporate thought leadership.
We learned:
“O’Neil has written and designed software for search, natural language processing and machine learning for more than a decade. After receiving a Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University, he worked for LingoMotors where he designed the company’s main commercial product. He also worked at Basis Technology, Inc. where he was the designer and lead developer for the Rosette Linguistics Platform, a language processing and entity extraction suite of products. O’Neil is the author of more than 20 papers in Computer Science and Linguistics and has given talks at numerous professional conferences.”
We find this decision to be interesting. Could the Fast Search roots be in need of technical replenishment?
Jasmine Ashton, April 6, 2012
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Beavers and Real Journalists Do What They Do
April 6, 2012
I find this amusing and a good example of the “real” journalists’ approach to information. Navigate to “UK Broadcaster Sky News Admits E-mail Hacking.” Here’s the passage I noted:
John Ryley, head of Sky News, said the instances involved suspected criminal activity. “We stand by these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest,” he said in a statement. “We do not take such decisions lightly or frequently.” An external review of e-mail records is under way at the broadcaster’s instigation, he said, but no grounds for concern have yet been found. “Sky News is committed to the highest editorial standards. Like other news organizations, we are acutely aware of the tensions that can arise between the law and responsible investigative journalism.”
CEOs who “revise” history may be on to something. As an addled goose, I am delighted to say, “I am neither a revisionist of history nor a “real” journalist.” Beavers do what beavers do. I wonder who owns the Wall Street Journal. A “real” journalistic outfit no doubt.
Stephen E Arnold, April 6, 2012
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SEO Mavens at Ontoprise Win a Prize
April 6, 2012
Germany’s Ontoprise GmbH, maker of SemanticGuide, is a Cyber Champion, Wachstumsphase reveals in “CyberChampions Award 2008 Preisträger ontoprise (CyberForum).” Ontoprise was granted the prestigious award from The Hightech.Unternehmer.Netzwerk Cyber ??Forum in 2008. Plus, there’s a movie embedded in this article. Get popcorn from a vendor without hepatitis, please.
The write up’s description of the award states that it is:
“. . .aimed at young and growing companies from the advanced technology region of Karlsruhe. The focus is on the degree of innovation, market opportunity and the entrepreneurial personality. CyberChampions is not a traditional business plan competition. The challenge here is to convince the jurors with a three-to four-sided questionnaire. Categories: Newcomers (foundation or new product – about 1 to 2 years) with high potential (growth – more than 2 years).”
We wonder, were there extra points for search engine optimization?
Founded in 1715, Karlsruh, Germany is a comparatively new city which styles itself as “a vibrant center of intellectual life.” It also happens to host the country’s high courts of law.
Ontoprise is, as implied by the award, headquartered in Karlsruhe. Founded in 1999, the company insists it is a leader in semantic technologies. We know the outfit can wrangle a top listing when one searches for one of our blogs. We are impressed with the SEO skills. With semantics, our jury is still out in the marsh with the dogs. The headlines do stop our spelling checker too.
Cynthia Murrell, April 6, 2012
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SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Manager 2010
April 6, 2012
SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Manager 2010 now has an online extranet sandbox to allow users to test drive the product before purchase. PR Web gives the full report as posted in Virtual Strategy Magazine, “SharePoint Solutions Creates Online Evaluation Sandbox for SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Manager 2010.”
“Developed by SharePoint Solutions, SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 (ExCM) provides the easy SharePoint extranet collaboration and simplified SharePoint extranet administration that SharePoint 2010 is missing in the out-of-the-box product. From its award-winning 2007 release, ExCM has established itself as the industry leader in powerful, effective SharePoint extranet deployment and management. This latest version adds substantially greater functionality and is simple and intuitive to use. Because EXCM integrates right into SharePoint 2010, all of its features are accessible from within SharePoint itself, so there is no proprietary interface or separate program to learn.”
Third party solutions that interface with SharePoint are a necessity for organizations that need to increase the functionality of their SharePoint deployment without committing huge resources to a customization project. However, a cutting edge solution like Fabasoft Mindbreeze may be a smarter long-term solution for organizations seeking an intuitive, scalable, and mobile enterprise search interface. Functioning stand-alone or as a compliment to an existing SharePoint installation, Mindbreeze is ahead of the competition in mobile searching and the Cloud.
“Smartphones and tablets allow you to act quickly in business matters – an invaluable competitive advantage. Fabasoft Mindbreeze Mobile makes company knowledge available on all mobile devices. You can act freely, independently and yet always securely. Irrespective of what format the data is in. Full functionality: Search results are displayed homogenously to the web client with regards to clear design and intuitive navigation.”
SharePoint needs a little help in realizing its full potential, and while many add-on solutions are on the market, Fabasoft Mindbreeze is worth a second look.
Emily Rae Aldridge, April 6, 2012
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Autonomy Selected by Mimas for Search Project
April 6, 2012
Computing.co.uk recently reported on a new search-related project that Autonomy has been selected for in the article, “Mimas Selects Autonomy to Streamline Academic Search.”
According to the article, Mimas, a provider of information resources for researchers in the United Kingdom, has been approached to improve the functionality of the JISC Collection’s digital book service. JISC’s historic books collection contains contains the full text or page images of more than 300,000 books published in Britain before 1800 alone.
Mimas sought out Autonomy’s IDOL software because they plan to use semantic linking software to save both time and money on the project.
Vic Lyte, head of technology services at Mimas stated:
“We did an in-depth analysis of the available technologies. We looked at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft but none could conceptualize like the Autonomy IDOL software. It would take around four and a half minutes for a paid researcher to search for a specific journal but with the IDOL software this is cut by a third.”
It looks like despite last year’s acquisition by Microsoft, Autonomy is still in the search game. Competitors are not out of the woods yet.
Jasmine Ashton, April 6, 2012
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Google and Viacom: A Reprise the Ground Hog Day Way
April 6, 2012
Wow, Ground Hog Day.
I read “Viacom’s Copyright Suit Against Google’s YouTube Reinstated.” The key passage in my opinion was:
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan today reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out the case before trial. The lower-court judge had said YouTube was protected from liability because it removed infringing videos when notified.
Good news for the lawyers billing the parties to the matter. For me, more legal process, which is 2012’s approach to innovation. I can conceptualize Google’s management explaining that Viacom was just kidding around in order to motivate the Viacom staff. I am not sure Viacom will be as complacent as Steve Jobs has been toward Google’s interpretation of Apple’s view of Android.
One can never anticipate how a person in a suit will react to someone with a laptop and little interest in discussing a deal. Gym attire and perspiration are not part of the Viacom way. But wait, that situation never happened. Viacom is just kidding around.
Stephen E Arnold, April 6, 2012
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PLM and Cloud Computing
April 6, 2012
The integration of cloud computing capabilities into product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions has rendered this technology a flexible and cost-effective choice in corporate research and development (R&D) departments, particularly as workflows become more cross-functional.
In his article “The Rise of Cloud Computing Extends to PLM,” which appeared in Food Manufacturing, Eric Marks comments on the impact of corporate PLM solutions deployed through the cloud and urges PLM manufacturers to integrate this capability into their products:
“Most industry analysts (Forrester, Gartner, Frost & Sullivan, ARC and The Yankee Group) covering IT agree that the power and potential of cloud computing, properly leveraged and deployed, can have a significant impact on the PLM industry. PLM customers are giving serious consideration and evaluating their PLM business processes in regard to how to run them seamlessly and securely connect them to cloud-based data sets. This is to say that today still few are fully deployed. It is still in the infancy stages of use even if the technology has matured. It is still curing.”
Inforbix, whose scalable and secure data management solution already offers proven cloud-based integration, has demonstrated itself to be on the cutting edge of PLM providers with its dedication to offering robust but nimble technology to its cost-conscious clients focused on streamlining and innovating their often complex product development networks and supply chains.
Tonya Weikel, April 4, 2012
Rewriting History for Fun and Profit
April 6, 2012
I read “Steve Jobs’s Anger at Android Was All for Show Says Google CEO Page.” I scanned other stories on this topic. Here’s the point in my opinion:
“Google CEO Larry Page apparently is trying to rewrite history,” charged Brent Dirks, at AppAdvice.com.
The tweaking seems to be that the late Steve Jobs, who is not able to contribute to this discussion, was annoyed that Google was emulating its products, business model, and attitude. Well, maybe not the attitude. Google has its own stamp on appropriate business behavior.
Mr. Page believes that Mr. Jobs was just chattering. One might imagine the duo zipping past the old Seaworld exit on Highway 101 to grab a burger in Belmont.
When I read about this difference of opinion about the Google – Apple relationship, I asked myself, “I wonder if I would have been angry if the CEO of Google had served on my Board of Directors, heard the discussions of opportunities, and sat through Keynote presentations showing road maps?”
My personal reaction would have been, “I can’t believe the situation was set up in the first place.” Then I would have been angry and figured out a way to get the interloper off the Board. Finally, I would ignore the situation and go on the offensive.
No way would I have embraced the “just pals” angle.
But forget me. Think about the historical parallels. I recall that one Russia leader who sparked great literature and groomed some slick colleagues just had history books rewritten. Now I have not seen a rewritten history book, but the possible connection between reworking facts is what I call “content with intent.”
Who does this type of stuff? I don’t know, but I think we have a useful incident to add to my growing collection of “weaponized information.” Filter a few Web sites and reality is effectively different. For those who accept predictive search results, “information”, facts, and reality are malleable.
Live with it I conclude. Life is search engine optimization. Seed those key words.
Stephen E Arnold, April 6, 2012
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