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How to Use Amplify for Content Curation and Thought Leadership Oh no, you’re thinking, not another social media tool I have to know about! Well, yeah, but Amplify is a really good one to actually use. You know how you’re always being told you need to engage with your followers, fans/likes, connections, etc. via social media? Why mind mapping software will go mainstream in 2009 - Mind Mapp A number of recent developments have convinced me that 2009 is the year in which mind mapping software will break into the mainstream as a widely accepted business productivity tool. It has reached an “inflection point” where we will see more rapid growth than ever before. Here are the factors that I believe will drive this rapid growth: The barriers to adoption are falling: Tools have recently emerged that enable workers who do not have licensed copies of a major mind mapping software package to collaborate with those who do.

10 European Startups To Watch in 2011 When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011. Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees.

Weka 3 - Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning Software in Java Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. It contains tools for data preparation, classification, regression, clustering, association rules mining, and visualization. Found only on the islands of New Zealand, the Weka is a flightless bird with an inquisitive nature. The name is pronounced like this, and the bird sounds like this.

McDonalds, obesity and curation of the social web McDonalds – is it a great restaurant chain serving tasty food, or the purveyor of a socially destructive obesity pandemic? Well that really depends on your point of view. However what we do know is that human opinions are reflective of the current moods of society. We see that all the time in areas such as fashion and retail. How It Works It will take anywhere from 3 seconds to 1 minute for your pic to upload, depending on how big it is. You're going to see this message every time you post a new pic. So, we're making the text really long so that it'll take you at least five picture uploads to read it all.

iFindHotels: Hotel Comparison App with Arabic Support 18 January '11, 01:44pm Follow ydney, Australia based hotel search engine HotelsCombined.com announced today that their iPhone app iFindHotels got Arabic support, making it the first app in the iTunes market to provide regional & international hotel search in Arabic. The release of iFindHotels version 1.31 for iPhone and iPod Touch will allow Arabic speaking users to fully utilize the hotel comparison app which comes in a time where tourism in the Middle East is expected to boom upon the opening of at least 3 massive airports throughout the region within the next 5 years. The registration-free app compares hotel rates from over 30 of the biggest travel and hotel booking websites. With integrated mapping, smart sorting and filters for search results, and get the best rate in their currency of choice.

HiDE: Hierarchical Data Explorer HiDE is software for visually exploring categorical data using hierarchical layouts. Different orders, sizes, colours and layouts help reveal or emphasise different aspects of the data. HiDE lets you interactively create novel hierarchical displays that share many of the characteristics of well-known and established statistical graphics such as small multiples, spine plots, cartograms, scatter plots, mosaic and treemaps. This work was produced as part of the vizTweets project, a Virtual Research Environment Rapid Innovation (VRERI) Programme funded by JISC.

About Aggregage is building the next-generation of business media, deploying web sites/newsletters that are each focused on a specific business segment topic, and each aggregating the most engaging online content. The aggregated content on our topic-specific sites comes from a number of interesting and relevant sources: blogs, white papers, peer recommendations, social networks, and discussion groups to name a few. That content is auto-curated by our readers based on their social media activity, so that the best rises to the top. Personalized newsletter versions of each content community deliver a customized version for each and every reader. Management Team

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