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Google and IBM help students learn parallel programming: Google and IBM have announced a new initiative to help students and researchers learn how to create the massively parallel programs that will be needed to address large-scale problems of the future. The two companies are teaming up to provide hardware, software, developer tools, and services to support curricula created...; Tags: Software, Google Inc., Plug-in, Programming, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Open Source, Management, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-10-09
Zekr (6): Zekr is an open platform for research on the Holy Quran. It is a Quran based project, planned to be a universal, open source, cross-platform application to perform most of the usual refers to Quran. The main idea is to build an as generic as possible platform to be capable...; Tags: Full-text Search, Zekr, Idea; Software downloads 2007-09-20
Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis: At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world's most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...; Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton; Blog posts 2007-09-14
Microsoft 'proud' to trump Google in search: Microsoft 'proud' to trump Google in searchSearch and Web search are differentWeb Search problem is a monster as compared to "search". There are hundreds of open source libraries (like lucene etc) which would do a pretty good search on a set of documents. But web (& web search) is a...; Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, Web, Internet search, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-04-04
Wales speaks out: Wikiasari 'people-powered' search engine: JIMBO WALES: "Search Wikia, a project to create the search engine that changes everything":Reporters and bloggers note: Amazon has nothing to do with this project. They are a valued investor in Wikia, but people are really speculating beyond the facts. This has nothing to do with A9, Amazon, etc. Help...; Tags: Wiki, SEARCH, Wales, Wikia, search engine; Blog posts 2006-12-24

Google's achilles heel: Google's achilles heelPaid Search & the Issue of RelevancyNot only did you recycle the title of a far more insightful article written over year ago by Alice LaPlante(http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177103024), but you failed to provide adequate support for your argument against the relevancy of Google's organic search results. While it is true...; Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement; Discussion threads 2006-12-13
Review of Zimbra - a feature-laden Web Office Suite contender: Review of Zimbra - a feature-laden Web Office Suite contenderfeatures are out, ideas are inEvery now and then, when they make the news, I go to the Zimbra site for a short ride.Yes, everything is there. And yes, everything works.But huge program succeses are not about features but usability: the...; Tags: E-mail providers, Web browsers, Web, Zimbra; Discussion threads 2006-04-12
Content Management Portal for TMA Using MDA RAD: TMA is an association formed in 1915 with the objective of collection and dissemination of accurate, comprehensive and timely information on tobacco industry to its members. The company wanted to transform their legacy system into a modern information portal based on industry standards and using standard development technologies. After quickly...; Tags: Industry, Content Management, Model-driven Architecture, TMA, Model Driven Architecture, Open Source, Databases, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies