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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.After you have been around the blogosphere for a bit you begin to develop what we might call “the simmering anger syndrome.” Regardless how upbeat, positive and otherwise “cheery” one may enter this domain, eventually [...]

AdaptiveBlue has just released some fantastic widgets that add value to any blog or website. I talked with Adaptive CEO Alex Iskold today and he was very excited about the growth of Adaptive, Smartlinks and particularly about these latest features. These widgets are for books, movies, stocks, recipes, stars and celebrities and other interests. [...]

We are on the threshold of an age where all information is digitalized and readily available on the Web. This is not news but it is exciting to those that consume knowledge. From education to research and beyond the full depth of available knowledge, even what we currently have available, is really unfathomable. With the [...]

Do you ever get tired of downright stupidity? I know you do and I sympathize whole heartedly. In the technology field of writing we often wrestle with complex and difficult to explain innovations and services. Some of us spend untold hours just trying to understand, let alone explain some of these creations, and even [...]

Today my friends at hakia.com announced an additional §5 million investment, this brings the total investment in the meaning based search engine to $21 million so far. Hakia has perhaps the best chance of breaking the semantic search barrier this year and these additional funds are earmarked for developing a semantic advertising platform. Additionally, hakia [...]