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Yahoo Search Vision

Jeff Weiner Yahoo's SVP of search and marketplace puts their vision as

"to enable people to find, use, share and expand all human knowledge. Not simply organize what already exists.''

My question to Jeff is how they will provide all the scientific literature? Do they have a Y!Science coming up in their labs like scholar.google.com?
via SiliconValley

What to do with Google?

Via Buzzmachine

Coming Soon Blog this

Computer vision techniques and applications in human-computer interaction

Blogs will Change your Business

Interesting cover story from BW.

Wondir provides New Q&A Service

Wondir launches their product. Interesting to see "village" comparison in their press release. I wonder if any library would incorporate this service?

Hyperword by Liquid Information

Their solution bring more interaction to words, by providing a menu where to link for any word that you are reading on the web. Currently it's research project but I can see some interesting commercial opportunities with this.

Check this site enhanced by Liquid Information. Move your mouse to any word and a menu will pop-up with sources.

Highbeam's new tool: Blog Enhancer

Nice implementation from Highbeam, besides offering RSS they let me blog any article in my own blog. Good way of syndicating content and increasing (hopefully) subscription to the product.

from: Ei provides direct Web access to Compendex.(Engineering Information Inc.'s Ei Compendex data base on World Wide Web)(Brief Article)
source: Information Today, March 1, 1996.
via: HighBeam™ Research
COPYRIGHT 1996 Information Today, Inc.

SIIA and Outsell Profile of the Information Industry

Research indicates that STM market grew by 9% in 2004 to $12.5B.

Yahoo News

A new beta which beats Google News. They have nicely integrated the YQ search (their purple related search box).

When Competitive Intelligence is Just Too Much Information

via Knowledge Wharton

"But just what is competitive intelligence? Simply put, it can be any sort of information that helps a business create competitive advantage. The increasing pace of change in the business environment demands that companies invest in competitive intelligence. In fact, according to Marion Debruyne, professor of marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, the biggest trend in competitive intelligence in the last couple of years is the acceleration and growth of information availability."

Rupert Mordoch speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors

Interesting speach that applies to STM publishers too

"But our internet site will have to do still more to be competitive. For some, it may have to become the place for conversation. The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online, and starts a blog. We need to be the destination for those bloggers. We need to encourage readers to think of the web as the place to go to engage our reporters and editors in more extended discussions about the way a particular story was reported or researched or presented."

"Someone whom I respect a great deal, Bill Gates, said recently that the Internet would attract $30 billion in advertising revenue annually within the next five years. To give you some perspective, this would equal the entire advertising revenue currently generated each year by the newspaper industry as a whole. So of course, all of this could not be new money. Whether Bill’s math is right is almost beside the point. What is indisputable is the fact that more and more advertising dollars are going on-line, and we must be in a position to capture our fair share."

Publish or be damned

Richard Black on BBC. This is from December. You can listen it here

Wikipedia a la microsoft

A beta in encarta allows you to edit the articles. Changes are reviewed by an editorial team..

Google adds Answers

After MSN and AskJeeves, Google also started offering instant answers to your queries

This service is different than Google Answers service

Slate on Peer-Review

Interesting perspective on peer-review

Forrester's Video on Blogging

"Blogging: Bubble Or Big Deal" by Charlene Li

R&D Corporate Spending in Europe

The new update 2004 R&D Scoreboard provides valuable insights on corporate R&D spending in Europe.

NYTimes using Blogrunner

Annotated Times tracks blogs referencing articles published in the New York Times. (Via Steve Rubel)

Blogs are here to stay...

A Wharton article on blogging.

Two things are certain: Blogging will remain disruptive to the traditional media, and new uses will surface. "You are going to see blogging move to video and instant messaging," says Werbach. "It's just the beginning."

Satellite maps in action at Google

Google incorporates Keyhole technology in its offerings (via EEVL)

End of Boolean searches?

In the last part of 3 part series on "The future of Software" interesting comment from IBM research group:

Boolean searches--which require users to learn an arcane vocabulary of "ands," "ors," "nots," and "nears"--are falling by the wayside, says Arthur Ciccolo, department group manager in the research division of IBM and co-leader of the IBM Institute for Search and Text Analysis. "We're at the cusp of a change in all of that."

Weblogs as a colloboration tool

A new study on using weblogs to support collaboration in undergraduate classrooms.

Is vertical the way to go? 24hourscholar.com

A new vertical search engine from looksmart for college students. The site aims " to make 24HourScholar the most effective tool possible for students and researchers" Some of the content providers are Thomsan Gale, ProQuest (good move by for these publishers). I would like to hear the reaction from the information specialist to the Google Ads when reading the abstract of the articles.