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Blogging 101--Web logs go to school

Blogging 101--Web logs go to schoolQuick plug of My blogI'm trying this blogging as a form of therapy:http://www.nigeljohnstone.com/I get to rant with diagrams and photos, everywhere else I only get to rant in text. It's strangely unsatisfying.If a tree falls in a blog and no one reads itIf a tree...

Tags: Web, blog, blogging, information seeker

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

Google loses trademark dispute in France

Google loses trademark dispute in FranceHow should Google respond?Personally, I lean toward having Google remove all returns for Hotel Meridien and their trademarks."Your search for Hotel Meridien turned up 0 results, are you sure you didn't mean [i]Whining hotel chain[/i]?Why not leave France?, Or hash itI don't see why they...

Tags: SEARCH, Now Let, Google Inc., French Courts, Meridian, information seeker, advertisement

Discussion threads 2005-01-20

Additional Resources

Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeover

Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverJob-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverI don't know, I think the keg stand pics should stay. It shows that the student can cooperate in teamwork and be social, both of which are good for any employer....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, extreme social networking, Job-seeking college, social networking, network, recruiting, jobseeker, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Job Seeker 1.1 (Windows)

Allows you to store and retrieve information related to one or more job searches. Information includes, but isn't limited to, jobs, recruiters, companies, referrals, resumes, cover letters, contacts, and tickler information. The information can be shared with other users of the product, backed up and restored, as well as imported...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Job Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-07-05

Major career web sites hit by spammers attack

What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...

Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Monster.com: Job site data theft 'not isolated incident'

Monster.com says last week's discovery of a rogue server accessing personal information from its database of job-hunters was "not an isolated incident." "As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is from time to time subject to illegal attempts to extract...

Tags: Job, Monster, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Deconstructing Twitter

"Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging" is the title of a study that look s at the microblogging phenomena engendered by Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. The authors--Akshay Java and Tim Finin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Xiaodan Song and Belle Tseng of NEC Laboratories America--analyze user intentions associated...

Tags: User, User Intention, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Corporate search needs to heed workers, Google exec says

Corporate search needs to heed workers, Google exec saysIts all about Artifical Inteligence and UnionsWe just can not move fast enough. It is a graduate school exercise to create something like www.dogpile.com which organizes after searching and searches many databases. Lets think now about those working on Microsoft owned devices...

Tags: SEARCH, Strategy, Google Inc., worker

Discussion threads 2006-04-24

E-commerce, meet your successor: Knowledge commerce

You don't hear much about e-commerce anymore. Yet the replacement vision has yet to be well defined. I think I'll take a stab at it. Seems to me we're now well on the way to knowledge commerce. The vision is that anyone, anytime, just about anywhere can get all...

Tags: knowledge, vision, friction, knowledge commerce, e-commerce

Blog posts 2006-02-17

Microsoft hits the books in Britain

Microsoft hits the books in Britain"Microsoft hits the books in Britain". With what? With stick?NTAnother one of Microsoft'sNTTry AgainAnother one of Microsoft's "Innovations".Stop digitizing books; Encode and Deliver KnowledgeThe competitive rush to merely "digitize books" by technology and business leaders is surprising. Making those digitized books searchable is just...

Tags: Strategy, Semantic Web, knowledge, Knowledge Repository, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-04

An open-source rival to Google's book project

An open-source rival to Google's book projectWow LULU.COMI'd never heard of lulu.com, wow, But don't you think thats what the publisher fear?:http://www.lulu.com/reader/create.phpAuthors self publishing is nearly there, all thats need is promotion.............. search = promotion.I wonder if lulu.com will make their clients books searchable by Google print?Google is theft, open-source...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, open source

Discussion threads 2005-10-26

PC Forum: Where in the world is search heading?

PC Forum: Where in the world is search heading?Message has been deleted.You'll need user inputI've been in the Internet space since '98 and have seen lots of attempts at implicit personalization before. I think in the future you will have to get explicit input from the user to create the...

Tags: INTERNET, SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc., search technology

Discussion threads 2005-03-24

Yahoo launches 'contextual' search

Yahoo launches 'contextual' searchCongratulations Yahoo, Serve the BuyerThe "Contextual Search" is a good facility but it should be consistent with "Search Dialog Box". It should be seen as another means of filling in the "Search Dialog Box" and the information seeker should be able to edit the same. This...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Launch

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

Yahoo Japan launches blog beta

Yahoo Japan launches blog betaPurpose, Alternatives and NavigationBlogging has become popular but what purpose is it serving? How well? What are the alternatives? How do they compare? Purpose Served: It appears that the purpose of blogging is to create a body of knowledge with freedom for...

Tags: blog beta, Yahoo Japan, blog, blogging, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-02-02

Why blogging matters to your business and your IT

Why blogging matters to your business and your ITBlogs and Knowledge ManagementNice story, thanks for that.Sums up a few important points.Dave Winer may be a bad charachter sometimes, but I think we all learnt about weblogs,rss and podstuff from his work.I remember experimenting with Manila before acquiring the content management...

Tags: Content management, Strategy, information technology, corporate blogging, content management system, blog, blogging, pundit

Discussion threads 2005-01-18

Apple centers Spotlight on desktop search

Apple centers Spotlight on desktop searchMSN Desktop Search is "integrated in OS"... sort ofMSN Desktop Search is basically just a user-friendly layer on top of the the Indexing Service, which comes with both Windows 2000, Windows XP. Microsoft has had full-text and meta-data based indexing as part of their...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, desktop, Apple Inc., desktop search, MSN Desktop Search

Discussion threads 2005-01-11

Yahoo joins desktop-search fray

Yahoo joins desktop-search frayWith all the focus on desktop searchesI've been waiting for Yahoos entry YAWN. So to spice this thread up some here are the top 11 geek headlines we probably won't see. Again my thanks and kudos to BBSPOT. Oh yeah and as BOZO says,...

Tags: SEARCH, Intel Corp., Doom 3, desktop search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-01-10

GuruNet launches new search service

GuruNet launches new search serviceFrom Search to Answers—A Strategy for SuccessBuilding and Serving from its own "AAA: Selected, Categorized, Annotated, Tagged, Multiple Sources of Information" and accessing it through its own "BBB: Hierarchical and Hyper-Linked Master Table of Contents of AAA" in response to a "CCC: Well Formulated Query" is...

Tags: SEARCH, GuruNet Corp., Better Business Bureau, AAA, search technology

Discussion threads 2005-01-04

Will Google stay as hot as its lava lamps?

Will Google stay as hot as its lava lamps?Stefanie Olsen, please learn to write. ZDnet your articles continue to suckWas i the only one to get a trobbing headache form reading that article?You suck.Man, great artical. Google is an exciting company.But, I agree their greatest problems will be respecting the...

Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Investment, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-12-27

the seeker 0.7.5 (Windows)

Lose the browser. The worlds FIRST and BEST Web productivity application for Windows. Through XML feeds and advanced HTML parsing techniques, the seeker simplifies by gathering the most commonly-referenced information on the web and organizing it into one easy-to-use interface. Grouped into categories, or channels, a wealth of information is...

Tags: Channel, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Finance

Software downloads 2004-07-19