Digital Asset Management

Digital Asset Management & eDiscovery: Finding What You Need.

There was a time not so long ago when databases ruled the world.
When I say “databases” I’m referring to huge collections of data, all neatly slotted into long, wide tables in precise order, last name first, first name last. Remember the phone book, neatly arranged by [...]

Effective DAM Process Integration Requires Smart Metadata.

Most of us apply various forms of metadata when we create or manage content. This metadata helps make our brilliant creations findable. But text-based content has life easy — search engines can also accurately index it. So findability is not so big of a challenge for text assets [...]

10 big cloud trends for 2010.

Cloud computing is clearly worming its way into theenterprise, especially as a testing and development environment and as a platform for less than critical apps and services. But cloud vendors are, in short, still trying to grow up and become a platform for business-critical applications. They’re already working on standards [...]

Insurgent search engine newbie Cuil (www.cuil.com) is making a big splash in the SEO world. In the short time since the former Googlers left the fold to start their own search enterprise, they’ve not only managed to draw interest from users due to their innovative algorithms and content and context results, but also because, unlike the established search giants, Cuil says that they do not keep any of your search terms – as far as they’re concerned, that’s private and they don’t keep them.

The online search scene continues to evolve as more contextual search sites sprout up in the market. However, analysts say demand for such search engines remain niche.
Unlike search engines that run on keywords, search sites such as Hunch, Answers.com, Mahalo and ChaCha, aim to deliver results tailored to specific human situations. Hunch, for example, asks users a [...]

Instead of semantic search or intelligent search agents from big companies driving the web’s evolution, I contend that each person’s ability to drive trust into every web action will be the animating force that moves us from centralized search paradigms to a new, decentralized one. In the new model, we will be able to search better because our trusted communities are doing search for us. We can better trust sites, because people we know had good experiences and we will learn about new things on the internet with services like Twine or HopSurf that gives us ideas based on people who are similar to me.

Search on the internet today is somewhere between a technology-driven stage 1 (Google, and minor variations like Wolfram Alpha and Bing) and a people-driven stage 2 (Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Amazon recommendations). One might stretch the metaphor to argue that RSS, Google Alerts and the like are forms of stage 3; I’m not sure I would agree.

By Jeremy Heffner
The Google Earth Blog posted about a presentation  by Michael Jones from Google discussing the roadmap for Google Earth.  It seems Google is working on an algorithm to automatically geocode uploaded photographs by comparing them with a large collection of known geo-tagged photos.   These known geo-tagged photos could be drawn from a combination of Google [...]

Following the recent launch of Microsoft’s Bing, along with products such as Wolfram Alpha, another search engine has entered the market, hoping to take onGoogle by delivering what it calls ‘human-like’ results.Yebol.com launched last week, and uses semantic-search technology to deliver categorised results.
At launch, Yebol can provide categorised results for more than 10 million search terms. According to the [...]

Google’s international dominance in the search market is finally being challenged by new start-up engines and the rise of real-time search. Media Week finds out if anyone is capable of shaking Google’s foundations.

For a company that handled a decisive 90.58% of all UK search volumes for the four weeks to 27 June (source: Hitwise), Google [...]