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Difference Engine: Luddite legacy

Posted by digitalassetman
/ November 7, 2011 / Leave a comment

AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a...

Posted in KM, Linked Data, Trends

Tagged Artificial Intellegence, news
Cloudability offers cloud cost-tracking APIs, free beer

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/ November 4, 2011 / Leave a comment

With the launch of the public beta of its cloud cost-tracking service,Cloudability is making APIs available to let customers access their own billing and usage information from popular cloud providers including Salesforce.com, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Google and Heroku. The service, which aims to help companies track and monitor what their...

Posted in Cloud Computing

Tagged Application programming interface, Cloud Computing, news
Digital Advertising The six most transformative in online marketing

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/ October 19, 2011 / Leave a comment

A vast array of technologies and trends are transforming online marketing. Because it’s hard to wade through the changes, we’ve whittled them down to six that are significant. The death of the click through—maybe for real this time.Advertisers and publishers have been predicting—and hoping for—the death of the click-through rate...

Posted in Trends

Tagged Internet Marketing, Mobile device, news
Data Visualisation in Web Apps

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/ October 12, 2011 / Leave a comment

A dashboard is a single screen showing the status of an application. At a glance you should see what’s going well and what areas are struggling. Customer retention is down. Sales are up. Complaints are at an all time high. They’re the application equivalent of homepages, and present many of...

Posted in Content Marketing, Data mining, Trends

Tagged Data Visualisation, news
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying

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/ October 3, 2011 / Leave a comment

By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels “I never forget a face,” goes the Marx Brothers one-liner, “but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception.” Unlike Groucho Marx, unfortunately, the cloud never forgets. That’s the logic behind a...

Posted in Data mining, KM, Linked Data, Social Media, Trends

Tagged Facial recognition system, news
Governments to make concrete promises to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 28, 2011 / Leave a comment

Historic day: The Open Government Partnership launch event this past Tuesday in NYC was a big deal. I’m glad I was there; I felt very honored to be included. With all the chaos of the Palestinian bid this week, The New York Times probably didn’t have the bandwidth to cover this story;...

Posted in KM, Linked Data, Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged news, open government
Kids today need a licence to tinker

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 26, 2011 / Leave a comment

Forget the old approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing Engineer Eben Upton with a prototype of the Raspberry Pi computer, which will cost around £15 and is fully programmable and capable of running sosphisticated software such as Firefox. Photograph:...

Posted in Social Media, Trends

Tagged ICT, Information and communication technologies in education, news
What’s a ‘social media newsroom’ – and do you need one?

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/ September 22, 2011 / Leave a comment

In this series of Smart Insights Best Practice Advice, Danyl Bosomworth of SmartInsights.com shares tips on best practice to get better results from digital marketing. This week, Danyl looks at ‘social media newsrooms’ – what they are and how they can help marketing. I’ll be honest, I read ’social media newsroom’...

Posted in Social Media

Tagged news, Social Media, Social media newsroom
Software is a Small Part of the Digital Asset Management Solution

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 18, 2011 / Leave a comment

I recently attended a really good webinar put on by Real Story about Selecting DAM. (It’s probably available on replay – I highly recommend taking some time to check it out.) Many of our customers come to us after reading their reports reviewing DAM vendors. I was curious what they recommended as...

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Tagged DAM, Digital asset, news