contextual matching technology

Sphere is currently integrated into over 50,000 leading sites and is live on over 2 Billion monthly article pages across the web.Sphere’s contextual matching technology is an industry benchmark. The core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.™ The Content Genome™ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery [...]

Semantic connections

The Semantic Web: Suppliers and Customers
author: Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe
Description
The notion of the Semantic Web can be coined as a Web of data when bringing database content [...]

The perils of popularity

The perils of popularity

I am giving a talk tomorrow at Yahoo Research Labs titled “The perils of popularity“. There has been a lot of excitement about how web-based social systems harness the wisdom of crowds. I want to challenge that notion. I also want to challenge some of Chris Anderson’s assertions about the long tail. [...]

Knowledge has become social (surprise !)

Snip from Macro Principles
Even if it may seem obvious, this is a pretty deep MP. I was reminded of by this presentation of David Weinberger. What made me notice and reflect was two pieces.
First, his mailing-list. You subscribe to lots of mailing-lists. On each, there’s at least one true expert, even the leading one, who [...]

The Great Taxonomy Debate

A Breakthrough In Taxonomy?

Sorry, I haven’t posted in a while.  Not only have I been busy on other stuff, there hasn’t been that much new and exciting to report on our internal initiatives.
User count continues to grow, new communites spring up, new sources of business value are identified and celebrated — it’s all good, there’s [...]

Do you love Facebook, or need it?

Do you love Facebook, or need it?
http://www.cmswatch.com/
Ted Leonsis, the former AOL executive and current owner of the National Hockey League’s Washington Capitals, recently posted a blog entry comparing Facebook’s critical development crossroads to that of AOL. He challenges Facebook to make the hard decision of whether they want their brand to [...]

Manage your social/business life directly from your desktop

As the social web paradigm shifts and we shift with it, so does the technology. Here are some neat tools and services to help you manage the new complexities of Web 2.
real time info as it happens (providing you subscribe to the right people and information)
Adobe Air application the flags your twitter feeds [...]

Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise:

Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise: Announces Salesforce for Google Apps:

Google and Salesforce.com have announced the launch of a jointly developed product that integrates the key features of Google Apps with the key features of Salesforce.com, the leader in web-based CRM software with more than 41,000+ corporate customers. Called “Salesforce for Google Apps,” the new [...]

The smart way to find DAM

http://www.capterra.com/digital-asset-management-software

Digitization and media management

Moving Image Research (MIR) is a software and services company.  We help content owners to digitize, publish and sustain their moving image collections.  We do this through:

Video Publishing and Hosting

Moving Image Research provide a set of easy-to-use tools for web publishers, to support user video uploading, transcoding and management. 

Media business process and technical consulting

We [...]