Susan Feldman reports on IDC research into the high cost of not finding information. To quote: Knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information. Searchers are successful in finding what they seek 50% of the time or less, according to both Web search engines and our own surveys. An IDC study in 2001 (“Quantifying Enterprise…
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I have been waiting for this – Ecto for Windows
I have been waiting for this – downloaded the beta this morning. The popular blogging-aid software Ecto — once only offered for Mac — is now available for Windows users. With today’s launch of Ecto for Windows, BoingBoing officially becomes an all-ecto blog! My BoingBoing co-editors all use it to make blogging with Movable Type more friendly and efficient. I’m…
Personal Wiki – PIM
I finally managed to get MoinMoin installed on my server after a bit of frustration. I kept getting the “500 – internal server error” and I thought it must be a permissions issue. I changed permissions on files, directories all to no avail. I double-checked the config file and the parameters for my setup looked ok. I finally decided to…
Another personalized news search engine
Another personalized news search engine similar to Topix. It will be interesting to see how well the related stories feature works. Newsearch engine Findory is profiled in this Seattle Times article. Like Topix, this engine creates personalized news pages based on your interests. Findory watches what your read and presents related stories. The founder, Greg Linden, cut his teeth in…
Collaboration Software’s Failings, and Potential
Eugene Eric Kim: A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools. This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration — why the world’s future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn’t good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it. From: [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]
Content Development Spreadsheet Another addition
Another addition to the AIfIA tools page is a content development spreadsheet. To quote: John Howe created an amalgam of similar spreadsheets and ideas from Adaptive Path (Jeff Veen, Janice Fraser), Chiara Fox, the “Polar Bear” book, and several others to create an adaptable content assessment/inventory tracking tool. From: [Column Two]
IntelliTXT – inline advertising service from Vibrant Media
John Batelle outlines the details behind this service that provides ads within editorial content. Great backgrounder on contextual ad services and the editorial issues surrounding them. Given the editorial issues IntelliTXT raises, Batelle points out that this might be their sweet spot: “Second, there are an entire classes of content-driven sites which claim absolutely no pretense of editorial objectivity. Whether…
KM pointers from Jack Vinson and Jim McGee
Jack Vinson and Jim McGee had some good pointers regarding knowledge management. From Jack: A Taxonomy for KM From Jim: More on Mark Hurst’s Bit Literacy Jack also mentions that Jim McGee will be the featured speaker at KMPro Chicago meeting on April 13. Details here.
The Goddess of Social Networking
Bundeep Singh Rangar of Ariadne Capital writes about a possible business model for social networking: “So, here’s the prediction. While some money will be made by social networking companies by subscriptions, online transactions, and licensing of software, the really big money will be made by the vertical integration of online networking and offline networking. The sum will be greater when…
Feed splicing from Seb’s Open
Feed splicing from Seb’s Open Research By now you’ve surely heard about Meg Hourihan and Nick Denton‘s Kinja, the “public aggregator for the rest of us”. It should be pointed out that Charles and Indi‘s Rollup has been offering similar functionality for a while. (Example: striproll.) Interestingly, Rollup offers a full implementation of what I’ve called feed splicing, offering an…