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By Larry Mrazek on
Friday, May 30, 2008 8:47 AM
Take a look at NewsTin (www.newstin.com), a relatively new site aggregating news from multiple sources and languages. Currently Newstin features content in Arabic, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Czech.
Newstin organizes information into various topical categories (Top Stories, World, Sports, Business, Politics, Tech, Entertainment), and it allows users to search by keywords as well. Nifty features include the ability to search and read information from other languages (see: http://www.newstin.com/info/crosslinguality_help for more information), as well as featuring a large source list and advanced features such as duplicate detection, so readers won't encounter the same press release multiple times.
I'll be testing the service out in ...
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By Larry Mrazek on
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:07 AM
Ed Bott discusses some of coverage of Vista's security issues, and tries to place in context of real-world users. Go to: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=455&tag=nl.e622 to read more.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:11 AM
NextBio (www.nextbio.com) uses the internet to search not only journal articles and other published information, but also data points from study results, allowing a researcher to drill down much deeper into their field of study, discovering new correlations and techniques from other scientists.
NextBio also allows the upload of data, allowing a researcher to post their own data, then run a search against NextBio to find any similarities or matches.
This is a search engine FOR scientific researchers; others can find the published information via alternate outlets such as PubMed (a data supplier to NextBio).
NextBio is currently in beta, and is free to search.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Monday, May 19, 2008 7:52 AM
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By Larry Mrazek on
Saturday, May 17, 2008 3:20 AM
I just learned about a new service called ImportGenius.com from the folks over at altsearchengines.com.
This service takes the shipping manifests from the US customs (Automated Manifest System), and provides access via their website. ImportGenius presents the information in a easy-to-understand manner, allowing companies to track their suppliers and competitors via a series of screens and queries. PIERS, available via Dialog, as well as direct from various US government websites also tracks import/export stats.
If ImportGenius can make this often arcane data easier to use, they'll have a usefull product.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Friday, May 16, 2008 8:30 AM
Links of the day:
That's all for now!
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By Larry Mrazek on
Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:13 AM
Google just released an online reference encyclopedia of HTML, CSS, and other web-related technologies. Find it at: http://code.google.com/doctype/. This is an open source effort, and is open to contributions.
My first impressions are positive ... if they can collect code snippets and examples this might become the first place I visit when needing to learn more about a web technology.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:17 PM
Check out this video of Microsoft's Touchwall, recently demonstrated at Microsoft's CEO Summit. While this won't be in production any time soon, it is interesting, and I can think of several applications that would benefit from this technology.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:55 AM
For those of us still running (and planning to continue) XP, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has a post on his blog with instructions on how to creat a "slipstreamed" XP SP3 disc. Go to: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1848&tag=nl.e622 to read more. If you have and XP installation, this is a prudent thing to do, especially since Microsoft will stop selling XP soon.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Monday, May 12, 2008 9:46 AM
I've monitored players in the search industry for a long time, and have seen quite a few players introduce (and later discard or forget about ...) natural language search interfaces for their databases. Basically, a natural language search interprets a plain english query ("I'm looking for blue and green budgerigars in Australia") instead of the keyword/boolean (bugerigars blue green Australia) interface we use on Google and the other search engines.
Currently there are several would-be search engines looking at NLP (natural language processing) as a feature to help differentiate themselves from Google and the other major search engine players.
Techcrunch's post about Powerset (see: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/10/powersets-dilemma-go-fo ...
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