Digital Asset Management

Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The “Three Layers Of So What” Test | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik.

Data, data everywhere yet nary an insight in sight.
Is that your web analytics existence?
Don’t feel too bad, you share that plight with most citizens of the Web Analytics universe.
The problem? The absolutely astonishing ease with which you [...]

Good article on collaboration, throw in an ARG (Artificial Reality Game) on a concept such as this and you have a powerful force for knowledge exchange and for doing good.
Is collaboration enough to connect-the-dots? « Product Four.

Connecting the dots is what we call the problem of finding various bits of the answer from various people [...]

Martin’s Fulcrum Musings: Predicting Sentiment in Advance.
There are now a number of tools that monitor social networks looking at:

Sentiment analysis – General sentiments related organizations and their brands
Topic trend analysis – the relative frequency that topics are mentioned over time

Therefore, if I make blog post or tweet, my topic and sentiments will be captured by automated systems, [...]

BBC iPlayer – The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free.
Twenty years on from its invention, Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost every aspect of our lives.
In the third programme of the series, Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised [...]

Is Data In The Cloud Risky? – Plug Into The Cloud – InformationWeek.

With the recent report that the FTC is considering a request to shut down Google Apps, the question of Cloud Security has come up and with it the question of if data in the cloud is risky. Of course only the government could [...]

3 Levels of Financial Report Transparency | XBRL Blog Magazine.

An interesting post at the Accounting Elf discusses how financial statements should be more like blogs. With the rise of social media and the generally higher expectations of information consumers, this is an important topic. Financial reports are after all just a channel of communication between [...]

IEEE Spectrum: The Social Panopticon And You.

POSTED BY: SALLY ADEE

Over the past couple of weeks, Google has gotten repeated bloody noses from tech journalists over theBuzz debacle. Before Buzz, Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” philosophy was backed up by a lot of carefully thought-out and well-executed applications. By comparison, Buzz was so uncharacteristically tone-deaf that [...]

Move Over Nielsen and Make Way for ECM | Information Architected.

The viewing audience, including the way they view is changing. Nielsen customers (i.e. advertisers) are demanding that Nielsen keep pace and monitor these viewing habits. The television ad market is not dying – it is morphing and as a result is potentially more valuable.  [...]

Extractiv: Content Provisioning : Beyond Search.

A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Extractiv. The company is in the “content provisioning business”, and I did not know what this phrase meant. I know about “telecommunications provisioning”, but the “content” part threw me. I followed the links my reader sent me and located [...]

Google Enlists NSA To Defend Its Data — InformationWeek.

The company is reportedly pursuing a partnership with the National Security Agency to strengthen its network security.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
February 4, 2010 02:26 PM

After being hit by a cyber attack from China late last year, Google is reportedly seeking guidance on cyber security from the preeminent [...]