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Help Me Design a Topology of Search Concepts
Search is a wicked problem, with no apparent universal solution in sight. Different technologies and approaches to search exist side by side, serving a multitude of business goals and user needs. In my work with search user experience I find it important to understand the particular strengths and weaknesses of search concepts like Best... Read More »
Wikipedia – A Democratic Gold Standard for Topic Maps
Topic Maps, an ISO standard for semantic networks, relies on authorities to create and maintain Published Subject Indicators (PSIs), uniquely linking single topics to single subjects out there in the real world. TopicMaps.Org has eg. published indicators for languages and countries. But who gets to claim authority over a particular set of topics? Conflicts... Read More »
Cake is great, Twitter is good, short URLs can die
Twitter is becoming increasingly popular and mainstream. We’ll go into some possible and slightly novel uses of Twitter to route the stream of communication to your site or blog. Twitters short message format creates a focused form of communication, but the tight limit enforces the increased use of shortened URLs, through services like bit.ly... Read More »
Does Everything Really Sound Like Coldplay?
If you have a feeling that all roads somehow lead to Radiohead, you’re not alone. Oscar Celma, my friend and former colleague at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, successfully defended his PhD thesis on music recommender systems the other day. The thesis, titled “Music Recommendation and Discovery In The Long Tail”, sheds new... Read More »
FASTforward’09 – Day 3: Which Path to The Future Will You Take?
“Engage your users” was indeed an important message being sent by Microsoft/FAST at this years conference, examples being drawn from sites like Twitter and Facebook. However, Microsoft’s software and road-map did not entirely reflect this message in the online space, leaving customers working out the path for their products or sites themselves. Improvements were... Read More »
On-demand Cloud-based Enterprise Search
An interesting discussion is taking place in the Enterprise Search Engine Professionals group on LinkedIn. The question asked is this: Is on-demand cloud based enterprise search a good value proposition for the future (with the recession and companies aggressively cutting cost)?
I have played around in my head with the idea of cloud-based enterprise search... Read More »
Search Inside Obama’s Inaugural Speech
Delve Networks has applied its audio search technology to Obama's inagural speech. When you enter keywords into the search field below the video, those words are highlighted on the timeline, guiding you to the most relevant parts of the video. Audio search is difficult to execute properly, since human speech is imprecise and varies wildly from person to person. Delve Networks have done a good job, however. I'll take a close look at various audio search engines in a future blog post.
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