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Natural language shopping

May 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding
David Meyer, gigaom.com

In the development of natural language processing, the semantic web and so on, e-commerce provides a rich breeding ground. Companies such as Amazon and Google always want to find better ways to learn what it is potential customers…

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding http://flip.it/Irpru http://flip.it/C4WL0

NLP Company Versus IO Raises $2.8M (semanticweb.com)
How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search (slashdot.org)

Bio hacking: DIY biotech

May 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

(via Dave Asprey On Biohacking – Business Insider)

How to Get Lean Eating Butter, Bacon, & Coconut Oil; An Interview with Dave Asprey of The Bulletproof Executive (tech.co)
Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com)

Creating a great LinkedIn group

May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group
Jeff Haden, inc.com

OWNER’S MANUAL

If this guy can build a thriving group on industrial water treatment (no, really), you can be master of your own niche on LinkedIn.

There are almost 2 million LinkedIn Groups, since any of the more than 200 million LinkedIn us…

7 Ways to Create an Awesome LinkedIn Group http://flip.it/CTR0j http://flip.it/9ufni

3 Business Reasons to Upgrade to LinkedIn Premium (socialmediaexaminer.com)
Why Your Business Should Make Time for LinkedIn [Infographic] (news.terra.com)
“LinkedIn Celebrates 3 Million Company Pages ~ Infographic” #dbpreads (dbpxhaust.wordpress.com)
The Marketing Powerhouse Series: LinkedIn, Twitter, and Blogging – Social Media Training from Changescape Web in July 2013 (virtual-strategy.com)
LinkedIn Adds New Features: This Week in Social Media (socialmediaexaminer.com)
LinkedIn and What’s In It for You, the Executive (businessleadershipmanagement.wordpress.com)

Tweet yourself to a dream job

May 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job
By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com

Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you.

Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job?

That’s a question Taylor Aldredge now…

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How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job (fastcompany.com)
#HireJodi: Pittsgrove woman uses social media to hopefully land dream job on Ellen DeGeneres Show (nj.com)
140 more characters to follow on Twitter (bizjournals.com)
The New York Times’ first blogger Nick Kristof on journalism in a digital world and the age of activism (nextlevelofnews.com)
Twitter Is the New Haiku (theatlantic.com)
“Creativity in 140 Characters” – Guy Yalif and Internet Week New York (socialmediatoday.com)

Airbnb starts verifying users

May 1, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Airbnb starts verifying user profiles
by Donna Tam, cnet.com

The company that matches property owners to travelers looking for a place to stay now tags vetted users with verified ID badges.

Airbnb, which helps people find vacation rentals all around the world, today will start verifying the identit…

Airbnb starts verifying user profiles http://flip.it/apNTw http://flip.it/o4knQ

At 4 years old, Airbnb grows out of start-up role (nbcnews.com)
Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
Airbnb Stay Deemed Illegal, Host Fine $2,400 (news.cnet.com)
What’s Wrong with Airbnb’s New Verified ID System (trustcloud.com)
Airbnb announces tool to help find emergency shelter for disaster victims (digitaltrends.com)
Airbnb vs Hotels: A Price Comparison (doobybrain.com)
Airbnb founder: Banning private rentals as silly as banning cars (news.cnet.com)

Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING

April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling
Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com

While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it’s in the business of digital transactions.

http://flip.it/6o25v

Google Fiber is transforming Kansas City into a startup mecca (bgr.com)
Yahoo’s Past Big Buys Tell a Tale of Mediocrity and Failure (wired.com)
Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? (Slashdot) (tech.slashdot.org)

A bracelet that sends kidnapping alerts for human rights workers

April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Bracelet For Human Rights Workers Sends Kidnapping Alerts to Facebook, Twitter
By Francie Diep, popsci.com

When activated, the device sends “Help!” messages social media accounts and nearby aid workers.

Activists and aid workers who document government abuses or monitor elections often risk abduction by those who oppose their work. Now one…

RT @PopSci: Bracelet for human rights workers sends “Help!” messages to Facebook and Twitter in case of kidnapping http://flip.it/4U6CC http://flip.it/JRCzC

The GPS Armband: The Aid Workers Best Friend (storiesbywilliams.com)
Death Penalty for Polluters in China (climatedisplacement.wordpress.com)

Hyper realistic CGI and the end of product photography

March 25, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management

Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
Joseph Flaherty, wired.com

Computer-generated images are moving out of theaters and onto store shelves and catalog pages, thanks to new software that makes it nearly impossible to distinguish the real from the photorealistic.

RT @core77: “Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers” – http://flip.it/6ZNXV http://flip.it/KMl3H

What to do if you are hacked

March 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked
Mat Honan, wired.com

Whether you were hacked, phished, had malware installed or just don’t know what the heck happened but there’s somebody all up in your e-mail, here are a few good first steps to take following an incident. This is by no …

Mat Honan

What to Do After You’ve Been Hacked http://flip.it/dE5Ed http://flip.it/3ttds

Something smells phishy. The importance of Social Engineering Training (concise-courses.com)

Your FB likes become your demographic profile

March 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

What Your Likes On Facebook Betray About You
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your “likes.”

Think of all the pages you’ve “liked” on Facebook. Perhaps a favorite…

RT @PopSci: An algorithm can determine your demographic info & political preferences just by looking at your Facebook likes http://flip.it/3n2Yf http://flip.it/6p3OO

Convert Likes To Leads With These Facebook Marketing Tips (news6cuban.wordpress.com)
Generating Electricity with Manmade Tornadoes may be Future of Energy [VIDEO] (natureworldnews.com)
If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images (techi.com)

Industries that lose the most data

March 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management

The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data
Our Editors, hbr.org

With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my desk from…

RT @HarvardBiz: The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data http://flip.it/PrQL8 @skgreen http://flip.it/xpVcX

Dominican Republic hacked credit cards (freshvisa.wordpress.com)
Most data breaches caused by human error, system glitches (computerworld.co.nz)
List of Damage(Hack) under #OpPetrol; Updating from 12-May-2013 (hackersnewsbulletin.com)
Sign of the times: Generation C #youth (jasonwesterman.wordpress.com)
The Corporation is at Odds with the Future – Grant McCracken – Harvard Business Review (blogs.hbr.org)

Learn to code with these online resources

March 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Learn to Code for Free With These 10 Online Resources
Zoe Fox, mashable.com

Click here to view this galleryIf Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true: Understanding how to code is the new literacyTake Zuck and Gates’ advice — learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs and…

http://flip.it/4HDtQ

Dont bother with Readin and Rithmatic! (thedigitalmediastrategist.com)
Bill Gates 11 Rules to Life for Kids (naveedtaji.wordpress.com)
Mark Zuckerberg – GASP! – put on a suit… (aumasocialmedia.wordpress.com)
Coding literacy (tsheko.wordpress.com)

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