Recommendation with textual auras

Sun's Aura Project released The Music Explaura. The beta project is using Last.fm, Spotify, Wikipedia, Flickr, Youtube, Yahoo, Musicbrainz, Upcoming, The Echo Nest and Amazon's APIs . The system also takes a different approach to recommendation: "AURA system computes the similarity between artists by computing the similarity between their textual auras." Via Stephen Green

Benefits of corporate blogging from Sun Microsystems

On their third anniversary, Tim Bray reviews how Sun has benefited from blogging:
improve image, helping executive in communicating their message; helping sales process; improve the morale and improve getting feedback and ideas.

Any corporations which would not love these benefits????

Knowledge Management Challanges within Corporations

It's not surprise that one of the main problems faced in the corporations is to manage and locate the knowledge within the company. Henry Story from Sun highlights 3 main problems:

"Large companies such as Sun Microsystems have a number of knowledge management needs. Plain text search engines can help find documents by searching through keywords in document content. The problem is that

1. This can return a huge number of documents
2. The keywords the user is thinking of may not be the right ones
3. The things searched for may not be text documents – they could be pictures, people or things"

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One of the solutions that he is proposing is tagging and wiki implementation within the corporate wall. No wonder why IBM also is diving into this arena.