Digital Asset Management

If you have not read the interview about Fetch Technologies, you might want to take a look. Fetch is a company that sucks in content and makes it available for analysis. Among its features is an innovative programming method. The idea is that the old style business intelligence approach is too slow for today’s business [...]

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Introducing Google TV If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming from our phones and computers. [...]

Use the Factery API to Get Important Text From Searches. Factery is a search API with a twist. Instead of links, it returns facts. Actually, it returns links, too. But the real interesting stuff is that it extracts the sentence or two that best answers a user’s search. Another way Factery is different is that [...]

Internet Evolution – Daniel W. Rasmus – Search Vendors Should Focus on Real Enterprise Needs. I have a simple question: If a search engine can turn aggregated knowledge of my e-commerce history into a targeted ad, then why can’t my enterprise information system provide me the content I need to prepare for a meeting? On [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]