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- FirstGov gets into holiday (sales) spirit
- Every retailer in the world works hard to take maximum advantage of the holiday season - and Uncle Sam is no exception. Over at FirstGov.gov, citizen-consumers can meander through a shopping site that includes books, museum souvenirs, holiday ornaments, folk recordings, jewelry, art and souvenirs. For example, the...
- Tags: Martha Dorris, FirstGov, Government technology, GSA
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- FirstGov gets with modern search
- FirstGov, the federal portal, will take a big leap into the 21st century soon. The General Services Administration has chosen Vivisimo, makers of the Clusty.com search engine, and Microsoft MSN Search to revamp the website's search functions, Federal Computer Week reports. Vivisimo's search technology clusters results into groupings that can...
- Tags: Vivisimo Inc., FirstGov
- Blog posts 2005-10-03
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- Google launches goverment search
- Google has launched a new site dedicated to searching for government information: Google US Government Search. It looks like Google is competing directly with the US gov's own FirstGov.gov, which is powered by Vivisimo see FirstGov gets with modern search. The home page of the site features feeds from...
- Tags: FEDERAL REGISTER, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Vivisimo gains in enterprise search
- Vivisimo is not a well known search engine company but it is one that is doing very well, and doing it very profitably--all without any venture capital money. I first met Raul Valdes-Perez, the CEO and co-founder nearly two years ago. At the time, this Pittsburgh, PA based company was...
- Tags: Vivisimo Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- 26.5 veterans' SSNs burgled
- A VA employee tool home 26.5 million social security numbers of US veterans without authorization - and burlglars stole them from his home, the Veteran Affair department said today. AP reports there was no evidence so far that the burglars who struck the employee's home have used the personal...
- Tags: veteran
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- New FirstGov search is live with great results
- In October we relayed that Vivisimo, in cooperation with Microsoft MSN Search, got the contract to give FirstGov.gov some modern search capabilities. Late in January, the new search launched, and finally a wealth of government knowledge is easily available. The Washington Post compared the new and old search engines...
- Tags: Social Security, search engine, old search engine
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- Who needs metadata anyway?
- The government is infamous for deploying heavy-handed metadata regimes. But Google returns pretty darn good results from millions of pages that are largely metadata-free - they certainly boast no structured metadata. Perhaps, federal government managers wondered last fall, the government could save bazillions by jettisoning metadata costs entirely. OMB...
- Tags: metadata
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Does the federal government finally "get" search?
- How hard is it to collect data from multiple databases, rank them according to different criteria, and display them in a hyperlinked format? For Web search engines, it's old hat. For the federal government, it's meant precise metatagging of content and adherence to strict standards. That old thinking may be...
- Tags: standards, government
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
- Are you podcasting? Here's why you should
- I sat down to begin this blog feeling pretty good about myself. Humph, I thought, I’ll write about podcasting and RSS feeds – I bet many governments haven’t even thought about utilizing them yet. Then, to test my theory, I surfed on over to FirstGov and lo and behold, the...
- Tags: RSS, podcasting
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- Federal sites improve in user satisfaction.
- Even as netizens complain about FEMA's website requiring Internet Explorer to register for federal aid, the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds federal websites increasing in customer satisfaction. The Index aggregate satisfaction score increased 1.2% for the quarter to 73.5...
- Tags: portal, Web portal
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- Yet another MS salvo in Massachusetts battle
- The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Microsoft has filed a 15-page document with the Massachusetts Information Techology Dept. and Gov. Mitt Romney objecting to the state's plan to require applications to natively support the OpenDoc format.The Globe reports: Microsoft executives...
- Tags: Open, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-15
- Utah and Maine lead the states in e-government
- Utah and Maine took the lead this year among the states in their e-government efforts, according to a new study from Brown University. The study looked at 1,559 state sites and 61 federal sites. Overall, the study found substantial improvements in e-government initiatives. ...
- Tags: e-government
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- More chatter on Massachusetts' OpenDoc plan
- David Coursey at eWeek wrote a Microsoft-friendly response to Massachusetts' decision to standardize on the OpenDoc format. And the response to his response has been both sympathetic and bewildered. The gist of Coursey's argument is this: "I am not sure what the...
- Tags: Simon Phipps, David Coursey, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-12
- While Mass. takes the lead in open access, feds lock citizens into IE
- David Berlind points out at Between the Lines that, while the state of Massachusett is immovably committed to the Open Document format - and will banish Microsoft Office from state agencies if Redmond refuses to support OpenDoc in new versions of Office - the federal government continues a...
- Tags: OpenDoc, Microsoft Office, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- Bloggers on Mass/MS flap
- Here are some news and blog perspectives on the showdown between Massachusetts and Microsoft over the state's insistence on the Open Document format. ZDNet UK: "In the end, Microsoft has a simple choice: it either adopts the industry standard or gets locked out. It may not like this —...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Unix, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
- Massachusetts: Out of Office
- In a substantial blow to Microsoft, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will soon adopt open document policies that banish Microsoft Office documents from Bay State offices, News.com reports. The new regulations, which are still in a public comment period, identifies Open Document, the recently approved format used by Open Office...
- Tags: XML
- Blog posts 2005-09-01
- Going beyond the status quo to improve online services
- FCW.com reports that the House is seeking new technology to better reach Spanish speakers. Specifically, they're researching commercial human-based and machine-based foreign-language interpreter systems that will, for the time being, provide only English-to-Spanish services. The move will save lawmakers from the trouble of hiring bilingual staff to update FirstGov en...
- Tags: Value at Risk, intangible value
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- e-Government: The Promise and the Challenges
- This paper identifies six areas relating to e-government: Portal to Government FirstGov; Improved Service to the Citizen; Cross-government and Interagency Cooperation; Digital Government; Data Privacy and Protection; and finally, Performance and Success, an E-government Scorecard. In each of these areas, the authors contemplate the current state of government, a two-year...
- Tags: Information Technology Association, E-government, Government
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