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MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping

MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mappingI'm interested in MindMeisterThis is something for which I've been looking!My address is "info [at] adamcreighton [dot] com".I'm inLooks interesting and I would love to try it out. I'm bljarv@[google's email offering}.comI'd like to try it, Marcdave.leigh@cratchit.orgI'd like to try itismael@itredux.comYes pleaseI would like...

Tags: collaborative Web, Mindmeister, FreeMind

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping

Thanks to a tip from a reader and his gracious offer of an invite (thanks Robbie!), Ive discovered MindMeister, a web-based mind mapping tool that does three things I consider to be absolutely essential for an online offering in this category. First, it is compatible with MindManager, the mapping...

Tags: Mac, Productivity, Software, Vista, Web Apps, Windows

Blog posts 2007-02-21

Towards an Efficient, Reliable and Collaborative Web: From Distributed Computing to Semantic Description, Composition and Matchmaking of Services

Any protocols for loosely coupled, open web services must support both fast performance and scalability to very large numbers of services and service interactions. Service discovery, composition, and contract/SLA management require a representation language which is both sufficiently expressive and capable of graceful degradation outside its core application scope, whilst...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Scalability, Distributed Computing, Composition

White papers 2005-10-03

Communities, Collaboration and Cooperation in Personalized Web Search

Collaborative Web Search is an approach to Web search that takes advantage of ideas from case-based reasoning in order to improve upon the results of a standard search engine. It retrieves and reuses the prior search experiences of a community of like-minded searchers. Collaborative Web search contemplates a society of...

Tags: Web, Community, Collaborative Web, Collaboration, Internet Search, Collaborative Web Search, Search

White papers 2005-08-01

A Live-User Evaluation of Collaborative Web Search

Collaborative Web search exploits repetition and regularity within the query-space of a community of like-minded individuals in order to improve the quality of search results. In short, search results that have been judged to be relevant for past queries are promoted in response to similar queries that occur in the...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Search Result, Search

White papers 2005-04-08

Context-Aware Filtering for Collaborative Web Systems: Adapting the Awareness Information to the User's Context

This paper proposes a context-based filtering process which aims at adapting the awareness information delivered to mobile users by collaborative web systems. This filtering process relies on a model of context which integrates both a physical and an organizational dimensions and allows to represent the user's current context as well...

Tags: Aware, Collaborative Web, Context, Awareness Information

White papers 2005-03-13

Global PR Teams Discover Opportunities Using Collaborative Web Application

Weber Shandwick serves clients engaged in global public relations campaigns. To promote and provide advocacy on behalf of its clients, the agency relied on a mission-critical contact management application that had become difficult to use and slow. To underscore its reputation for providing unparalleled service, Weber Shandwick wanted to develop...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Contact Management, Microsoft Corp., Weber Shandwick, Public Relations, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies

Toward Cognitive Tutoring in a Collaborative, Web-Based Environment

While intelligent tutoring has been applied to collaborative learning environments, it has met with little success so far because of the complexity involved in adding a tutoring component to a collaborative environment. This paper proposes to tackle this problem by using Cognitive Tutors as the basis for the approach and...

Tags: Software, Collaborative Web, Carnegie-Mellon University, Environment, Tool, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers

Macromedia Case Study: ULiveandLearn

ULiveandLearn is a virtual education company that builds and sustains distance learning environments, including online courses and seminars with a particular focus on web conferencing. In an effort to produce and deliver great collaborative web experiences, ULiveandLearn sought to find a web conference platform that was easy-to-use, affordable, and flexible...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Macromedia Breeze Live, Macromedia Inc., ULiveandLearn, Web Conferencing, Internet

Case studies

Additional Resources

Amazon S3: "Elevated error rates"

Amazon Web Services is currently is experiencing "elevated error rates," according to the company's status reporting dashboard. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: S3 Inc., Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see

Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Fastest-growing US web sites in May 2008

Apr-08 May-08 Growth, % Rank Total Internet : Total Audience 190,728 190,858 1 N/A Proflowers.com 1,301 5,453 319 200 Vonage Holdings Corp 2,202 4,832 119 227 Vlaze Media Networks, Inc. 4,021 7,162 78 153 Discovery.com Sites 8,800 15,473 76 62...

Tags: Web, InfoSpace Inc., Web Site, Internet, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Bookmark this: Three Web sites to aid the green cause

"EcoSearch this" doesn't have quite the same ring as "Google this," but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-19

Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?

After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...

Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft

Open-source Castle Project founder joins MicrosoftI've always been curious about the uptake of Iron*Its a strategy that seems to follow the same mistake MS is making on the web...."If we offer OUR version they will come". It seems to me that ASP.Net attracts a certain type of person just like...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Scripting languages, open source, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., PHP

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-18

WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5

The latest version from the Mountain View, Calif., and Sri Lanka company adds WSO2 Data Services and security features for enterprise-class service composition. Mashup Server 1.5 is built on the WSO2 Web Services Application Server based on Apache/Axis 2. It can be used as an individual service development and deployment...

Tags: Data Service, Security, Mashup, WSO2, Mashup Server 1.5, eBizQ, Collaboration, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed

Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamedWho is really to blame?SOA makes things easier for the end user, but harder for IT. But is it really SOA that should take the blame or are IT shops just really bad at "real" software engineering? I vote for the later. ...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Cable Company, Internet Service Provider, Notice, NebuAd, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Channel Management, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Immobile Apple

It's 11:33 a.m. Friday. Approximately 66 and a half hours since Apple Support acknowledged receipt of my request for help on syncing calendar and contact data from my iMac to the "cloud,'' i.e., MobileMe servers wherever they are. Re-request sent after 48 hours. Still...

Tags: Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-18