Quote to Note: Eric Schmidt on China
May 16, 2010
I tucked this in my quote folder. The source was “Google CEO Schmidt Says Situation in China ‘Stable’ (Update2)” from Bloomberg Business Week. And the quote:
“We maintain our business relationships and our engineering centers in China,” Schmidt said today. “Should the Chinese government become upset with us, become further upset with us, or what have you, they do have the ability to change this outcome.”
No kidding?
Stephen E Arnold, May 16, 2010
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Big Data, Publishing, and an Opportunity?
May 16, 2010
People are looking for a way to connect to the massive quantities of data online, but these publishers may be missing the point. Semantic Web’s recent article, “Big Data Publishing: Common Threads in STM, Legal & Educational Publishing,” discusses the possible onslaught of publishing online data, even recommending it as an entrepreneurial option. Big data publishing is the idea that a publisher will compile the Web—from blog posts, tweets, news articles and other ephemera—into print form. The goal is that people will want to study the web as a whole and understand how all things are connected. The question is, why should the internet be published? There are tools like social search that help us make connections between many topics, individuals and opinions already. Do we really need researchers and academics to help us make these connections?
Patrick Roland
May 16, 2010
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Comintelli, A New Player in Open Source Search
May 16, 2010
Open source search information continues to arrive at the goose pond. With my decision to work on the conference program for an upcoming open source search conference, my hunch is that more information will arrive in the next month or so. The goslings and I will do what we can to capture the information that we find interesting. We will leave it to the mortgage-challenged, sharp-eyed azure chip crowd to explain the “real story.”
Just in is information about Comintelli. The article “New Enterprise Search Solution Based on Apache Solr Released by Comintelli,” showcased this step forward for search engines. According to the article, the Enterprise’s features “include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.” In addition, Comintelli, the Swedish technology upstart, claimed “[Enterprise] is now well-positioned to tackle any information access problems without the traditional huge license fees.” This marks an interesting step forward in searching freedom. From Harrod’s Creek, we see a possibility that the the company could attack social search. Will Comintelli deliver something special? Hopefully, the tip of the iceberg is just revealing itself with social searches. With Ask.com killing its blog search service, maybe a niche play is in the cards?
Patrick Roland, May 16, 2010
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Social Network Data and the Future of Research Bibliographies
May 15, 2010
A two for one link. Navigate to HubSpot’s Inbound Internet Marketing Blog and “The Ultimate List: 300+ Social Media Statistics.”. Useful data collection. Well done. On the downside, this article helped me see the future of bibliographies. Years ago I studied with JJ Campbell, one of the editors of the Chaucer corpus. We made lists. The new bibliography happily romps across images, videos, and supporting links. JJ would probably have objected if I submitted my work as multimedia.
Stephen E Arnold, May 15, 2010
The Future of Search Revealed, Well, One Viewpoint Revealed
May 15, 2010
I heard a lecture that asserted mobile search was chugging along. If my behavior is an indication, the chugging is pony slow. I rarely use the geo-location functions in my alleged smartphone. The darn thing needs help getting a signal and keeping it. Fancy stuff does not work too well paddling in the goose pond. I read “Mobile and Location Fueling the Design of Future Search” and wondered where I had to live to take advantage of this particular future. My conclusion? I don’t care. I realize that at my advanced age, many whizzy trends swirl around me. I ignore them. For me, this passage riffled my goose feathers: “Mobile is fueling innovation in a way that perhaps hasn’t been seen before.” Well, maybe. I am not sure how “location” will do much for the hapless paralegal looking for an email or the 30 something manager desperate for a client record in order to make a sale and earn the commission to pay the mortgage. Pinning the future on mobile makes a great headline, but it doesn’t address some of the search challenges I encounter.
Stephen E Arnold, May 15, 2010
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Vivisimo Sells Clusty.com
May 15, 2010
If the story “Yippy, Inc. DBA: ‘Yippy’ Has Closed the Clusty.com Transaction” is accurate, Vivisimo’s metasearch system has a new home. So what’s a Yippy. According to the news item:
Yippy, Inc. formerly known as Cinnabar Ventures, Inc., www.yippy.com, is a new economy technology company that develops technologies and application services environments for both Consumer and Commercial market segments in the cloud computing sector.
Assume the story is accurate. What’s this mean for Vivisimo? First, some money. Second, maybe some reduced operating and development costs. Third, Vivisimo is going to have more management cycles available to focus on its enterprise search and services business.
More details are supposed to be available on May 17, 2010.
Stephen E Arnold, May 15, 2010
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Google Moves to Eclipse Apple
May 15, 2010
I know that Eclipse is a popular open source development tool. We use it here in rural Kentucky. You can read about Google’s new Eclipse Lab in Google Code Blog. The story “Announciong Eclipse Labs” presents the details and lots of links. One link I did not see was an explicit pointer to the Eclipse Foundation. The great folks at Eclipse, on the other hand, posted a write up and a link to Google. Interesting in my opinion.
Now my three thoughts:
First, Google is setting the stage to turn up the heat on the open versus closed opportunity for developers. Apple is closed and bad. Google is less closed and good. You can turn your own skepticism meter to calibrate the values for bad and good.
Second, the announcement is tantamount to a Google endorsement. My hunch is that each vote for open source sets the stage for more open source opportunities for individuals and organizations. This is important in my opinion.
Third, the Google seep and surround stratgegy lacks marketing zing, but the Google is playing three dimensional chess and some companies are pushing checkers in a more tactical game. Google’s bet is that its ad revenue stream neutralizes short term market advantages over the long haul in multiple dimenstions.
Stephen E Arnold, May 15, 2010
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Coveo Captures SIIA Codie Award for Second Time
May 14, 2010
The Software & Information Industry Association recognizes companies for excellence each year. The SIIA announced on May 13, 2010, that Coveo and its Enterprise Search platform won the “Best Enterprise Search Engine Category.” According to the official SIIA news release,
One hundred eighty-eight products from 136 companies were selected as finalists from more than 785 nominations submitted by 374 companies. Nominated products underwent an intensive review by subject matter experts, analysts, journalists, and others with deep experience in the field…A listing of winners is now available on the CODiE Awards Website at www.siia.net/CODiEs.
What’s remarkable is that this is the second time Coveo has won SIIA’s award for excellence. The president of Coveo said:
It is an honor to accept our second CODiE award in the ‘Best Enterprise Search Engine’ category,” said Laurent Simoneau, CEO, Coveo. “It is rewarding to have the CODiE judges recognize the significant strides we have made to ensure continued expansion of the use of enterprise search within the enterprise. Our platform enables companies to ‘stop moving data’, and access information directly from virtually any enterprise system, including online communities, CRM systems, CMS, WMS, and email and desktop content.”
You can get more information about Coveo at www.coveo.com. Check out the company’s system.
Stephen E. Arnold, May 14, 2010
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Autonomy Wins Another Award
May 14, 2010
Short honk: What is a secret ingredient for Autonomy’s continued success in the search and content processing market? I think I picked up an important clue when I read “Autonomy’s Sushovan Hussain Wins CFO of the Year Award”. The key passage for me was:
Sushovan Hussain has played a crucial role in Autonomy’s exceptional growth trajectory. Over the last five years, Autonomy has generated an adjusted EPS CAGR of 73%, grown to become one of the three largest software companies in Europe and the best performer on the FTSE 100. During that time, Autonomy has made three strategic acquisitions totaling some $1.8 billion culminating in the announcement of the acquisition of Interwoven for $775m in January 2009.
Technology’s role. Important but this award underscores the importance of a sharp pencil.
Stephen E Arnold, May 14, 2010
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XSLT 2.1 Draft Available
May 14, 2010
Short honk: I don’t want to cover too much programming information in this blog. I do want to document important developments. Navigate to “First Draft of XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.1 Draft Published”. With XSLT, a programmer can perform some interesting manipulations of XML content. More info here.
Stephen E Arnold, May 14, 2010
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