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WordCamp NYC 2009 – Using WordPress as Library Catalogs

November 14, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I am live blogging from WordCamp NYC,  please excuse any typos or less polished text. Speaker: Casey Blisson “wordpress is everything that libraries are not” Blisson opens.  The cost of library software is really high (Endeca is mentioned). WordPress is easy to use, easy to install, easy extend – plugins is an [...]

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Book Review: Socialnomics, how social media tranform the way we live and do business

October 4, 2009

This Summer brought a snow of books around social media. Socialnomics, written by Erik Qualman, is one book reflecting a clear and current view of how the burst of social media tools triggered a significant shift in business models we have been using for a few decades. “We have shifted from a world where the [...]

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What are you searching for?

May 20, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Everybody is talking about Wolfram Alpha:  it’s new, changing all the rules, is it a competitor for Google, is it not a competitor for Google, will it need some regulation over data delivered and will it be able to answer ANY question? Working in the legal industry means that a large part [...]

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All rules have changed. Enter intelligent web – enter Wolfram Alpha

May 17, 2009

Search. It will never be the same. This sounds more like a part of ‘Lost’ plot more than anything. A new search engine – that brings you the answer you need rather than a bunch of links – the brain child of a ‘mad scientist’ is emerging: “It is named after its inventor, Stephen Wolfram, [...]

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