Digital Asset Management

A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging. In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue: …as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to [...]

A nice piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal on knowledge management: Who Knows What? Finding in-house experts isn’t easy. But most companies make it harder than it should be. The article, by  Dorit Nevo, Izak Benbasat and Yair Wand, explores the expertise location benefits of enterprise 2.0. The authors describe the use of blogs, wikis, social [...]

IDC Names Innovative Information Access Companies Under $100M to Watch, Highlighting New Ways to Leverage Information Assets FRAMINGHAM, Mass., October 26, 2009 – In an effort to highlight information access vendors with revenues of less than $100 million who are adapting and innovating around current shifts in the software market, IDC has named nine innovative [...]

Inghams has today launched its new website packed full of information and stunning imagery showcasing an extensive range of winter and summer destinations with five dedicated sections including Ski, Lakes & Mountains, Villas, Spa and Santa breaks (http://www.inghams.co.uk/) . With a brand new look and feel, the website features all the latest resort information and [...]

There is no easy answer to the question, “What will be the next Twitter?” Yesterday, it was Friendster and then MySpace; today we are hooked on YouTube, Facebook, and, undeniably, Twitter — our friendly neighborhood microblogging buzz juggernaut. So who has staying power and what is next on the horizon for big digital breakthroughs? In the [...]

At the intersection of Social Networking and Search is an exciting frontier that is just beginning to be realized.  Through more efficient analysis and subsequent comprehension of the relationships between information we will gain a greater understanding of the world around us and interact with it.  The implications for both publishers and marketers will be [...]

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week. (Around a [...]

The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving the value of data. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics, Social Networking and [...]

Posted by Paul Quigley on August 28, 2009 Once upon a time it was all so simple. Wasn’t it? Content was just, well, content. The guts of documents, files, records, stuff which had content and was worth keeping. Now, it’s all changed. Not only has the whole ‘content is king’ thing changed beyond all recognition since [...]

This vids been doing the rounds of the net for the past couple of days. There are some amazing facts and figures that should make any social media skeptic change their mind. Having watched a similar video about Internet usage with the same music (I can’t find it now) It feels a bit cliche but [...]