The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Glass: Looking through the Obvious I read “How Google Screwed Up Google Glass.” The capitalist tool does not have its heart in the analysis. Here’s the tip off: “It really is a great idea.” What exactly is great about a virtual reality headset? As I wrote in Information Today, I have two or three devices …
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Small Analytics Firms Reaping the Benefit of Investment Cycle Small time analytics isn’t really as startup-y as people may think anymore. These companies are in high demand and are pulling in some serious cash. We discovered just how much and how serious from a recent Cambridge Science Park article, “Cambridge Text Analytics Linguamatics Hits $10m …
Open Source Search: Just Like Good Old Proprietary Search The more search changes, the more it remains the same it seems. Come to think of it: Most of today’s vendors are following the scripts written for Fulcrum Technologies and Verity who stomped around the C suite in the 1980s. Is the search sector running an …
Concern about the Future of Technology I suggest you read two articles. The first is from folks who make their living cheerleading technology. The article “What Does the Recent Tech Stock Downturn Meant? The Truth Is Nobody Knows.” is an admission that the future of technology is—well—not too clear. With increasing class tension in the …
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PART I Imagine the Internet without Search Engines Centrifuge Systems proposes an interesting idea in “Big Data Discovery Without Link Analysis Is Like The Web Without Google.” Centrifuge Systems asks readers of the short article to imagine using the Internet without a search engine. How would we locate information? It would be similar to the …
Search and Big Data: Been There, Done That Is the use of search to find information in large collections of content revolutionary? Er, no. What about using search to locate an Internet Protocol address in a repository of monitored email traffic? Er, no. With the chatter on LinkedIn and the vacuous news releases from some …
Google Is as Intrusive as They Come If you see the world through Google (www.google.com) colored glasses, you might think the search king can do no wrong, such as in this recent Medium.com article, “Why the Future Belongs to Google.” https://medium.com/mobile-culture/994daa5d0fee However, it’s starting to look like even those wearing the glasses are not happy. …
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