The generation raised on the internet | The kids are alright | T. Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point? As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns—as the slide above by Nova Spivack implies. Spivack is the CEO and founder of semantic Web startup Radar Networks and is pushing his view that semantic search will help solve these problems.
But anyone frustrated by the sense that it takes longer to find something on Google today than it did even a year ago knows there is some truth to his argument. “Keyword search is okay,” he says, “but if the information explosion continues we need something better.” Today, there are about 1.3 billion people on the Web, and more than 100 million active Websites. At a certain point, with billions and billions of Web pages to sift through, keyword search just won’t cut it anymore. Spivack explains: Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed. Ex-CNETer Launches Iminta. San Francisco Iminta launches into private beta on Tuesday.
Like a number of other startups, you tell the service the various social networks where you have accounts (delicious, flickr, YouTube, Lastfm, etc.) and the service creates a master list of everything you are up to on those sites. Your friends can then subscribe to your master feed, and/or you to theirs. There are other services that are very similar – FriendFeed (still in private beta) and Plaxo Pulse are the most well known, but others include Mugshot, Readr, 30boxes and Spokeo. For the most part, Iminta has features that are similar to those services, particularly FriendFeed. It makes for a less simplified interface than FriendFeed, which has its pros and cons. Another thing I like about Iminta, and the reason I’m writing about it, is that the company has been bootstrapped to date by founder Aaron Newton (an ex CNET product manager) – I always like the non-funded startups. Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Personal reference collections as. We will see much more activity connecting user environments and bibliographic resources.
I am thinking of citation managers, reading lists, social bookmarking sites (see citulike and unalog) and RSS feeds. Some of these may be specifically supported by the library (e.g. a citation manager service), some may be developed within an academic or scholarly context (e.g. Zotero, citulike, ...), and some may be general network services. People have multiple ways of creating personal and shared collections of data and links. They are also an example of an increasingly important aspect of our bibliographic apparatus - we have discovery or 'rendezvous' experiences outside the library resource, where it would be good to be able to link back into a library service for fulfillment, or indeed into other services.
Introduction. [Resolvability of References in Users' Personal Collections] Related entries: Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move. "Information Access in a Networked World" "Information Access in a Networked World" danah boyd Presented to Pearson Publishing 2 November 2007 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2007. "Information Access in a Networked World. " Talk presented to Pearson Publishing, Palo Alto, California, November 2. Youth are growing up in a society shaped strongly by networks. Networks of information, networks of people, networks of objects. To understand youth's interactions with information today, you need to understand the networks in which youth inhabit. At the most simplistic level, information is acquired in three ways: push, pull, and osmosis. Osmosis Let's begin with osmosis. Last spring, when I asked teens who was running for President, they were all able to rattle off at least Hillary and Barack.
Today's youth live in a networked world where they pass by information on a regular basis. Media-driven osmosis is not new, but the level of saturation is definitely greater than before. Push Pull Rethink. ACRL NY Social Software in Academic Libraries. ACRL NY Social Software in Academic Libraries Email Google+ Twitter Facebook November 30th, 2007 by Ellyssa Kroski I will be speaking today at the ACRL/NY Symposium about Social Software in Academic Libraries. Wikis Wikipedia WikiHow University of Minnesota Libraries Wiki Antioch University New England Library Staff Training & Support Wiki USC Aiken Gregg-Graniteville Library Wiki Webpage Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki Butler University Libraries WikiRef ALA 2007 Annual Conference Wiki Library Success Wiki Library Instruction Wiki Social Bookmarking StumbleUpon del.icio.us Southern Connecticut State University Hilton C.
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