I was exploring sights related to ‘events’, possibly motivated by Esther Dyson’s upcoming When2.0. There is something puzzling about this. Most sites are being developed — according to the impression that I got — for making events important. The goal…
Calendar of events is limited.
Enterprise search is not for Google
Enterprise search has always been considered different from the consumer search. In THIS article, Chris Kraeuter and Rachel Rosmarin argue that Enterprise Search is not for the major search engines like Google.
Tags give human meaning
Daniel Terdiman has a nice report on ‘Tagging’ on News.com. This report gives a good summary of how tagging has stron social roots and is becoming a popular mechanism to share information — like images or documents or to find…
Information Assimilation Using Wikis and Maps
There is a novel approach for information assimilation emerging through Wikis and using Maps. this approach allows citizen reporters and other interested people to enter information through Wikis on Maps. It was demonstrated for some of the disasters like Katrina.…
Not alone
Rajesh Jain sent me a link http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008684.html that suggests that I am not the only one struggling with this issue of taxonomy and tags.