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Cyber Hijacking Habush, Habush, and Rotier vs. Cannon and Dunphy

We have talked about this in class and it was a topic of conversation at Thanksgiving this year (complete with demos and source code reviews).

The practice is quite common and now is being challenged.  Stay tuned.  Right to Privacy laws?  Copyrights? Interesting.

What do you think?  Should you be able to buy your “competitor’s keywords” company name)?

Thanks Hugh.

From CNN

Google Search By Sight

From the article…..

“On Monday, Google announced the ability to perform an Internet search by submitting a photograph.

The experimental search-by-sight feature, called Google Goggles, has a database of billions of images that informs its analysis of what’s been uploaded, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering. It can recognize books, album covers, artwork, landmarks, places, logos, and more.”

It does not do facial recognition.

What do you think?  Cool eh?

Baseline Magazine has a slide show that offers some pretty compelling reasons why Solr perhaps offers a great alternative for full text search on your internal sites and databases.  “Smarter Search with Solr“  It is open source for one and has been used successfully with CNET and other sites which are named.

What do you think?  Would you rather pay license fees?

What made you think about switching or implementing this?  From a managerial standpoint, is this something you may direct your IT team to look into?  Why?

Personally I think that RSS is one of the most under used, cool technologies of the internet age.  Notice I did not say new because it has been around for quite a while.  In fact, many people are already using the technology when they get news updates, weather updates, or just about any other notification through digital means.

HP has published an article that explains this technology/capability very nicely.  In “The Skinny on RSS Feeds “  we learn about RSS Readers and other capabilities.  (I have set up iGOOGLE with an RSS Tab).   From the article “RSS isn’t just for articles. Pretty much any information source that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: recent additions to blogs, details of special discounts, or alerts as to when new web content is available”.  This concept is the aspect of RSS we need to think about.  I believe, when used as part of a knowledge management system, especially as part of a new products management process we can develop tremendous competitive advantage.  Just my opinion.

What do you think?  How do you use RSS?

An article in BusinessWeek called “Twitter Makes a Racket. But Revenues?”    The article suggets that perhaps something more than advertising is in play and partnerships may be the future “To date, Twitter’s plans remain obscured behind a sort of Silicon Valley Mona Lisa smile. The company is playing well with others while divulging next to nothing about its intentions. It’s allowing outside parties to create Web sites that manipulate and repackage its streams of tweets. One is CoTweet, a company whose platform organizes multiple Twitter exchanges with customers so they may be more easily tracked”.

The article suggests that search may in its future “The more ambitious play has to do with Twitter’s search engine, which it acquired last summer and which does an admirable job of capturing what is happening on the site on a moment-to-moment basis. Google can’t do this. Twitter’s recent talks with Google—and other big online players—centered around potential search partnerships, says someone familiar with the discussions. Combining Twitter’s search engine with one of users’ most common activities—sharing favored links—makes for something that has long been fantasized about: a real-time, human-powered search-cum-recommendation engine for content.”

What do you think?  How will Twitter monetize its success?

A recent blog post has compiled a list of information that GOOGLE  ”knows” about you.  GOOGLE KNOWS  

Here are a few from the posting at e-Justice Blog:

1. What you’re searching for: Google is used by millions of people worldwide-and they know what every user is searching for, even if it’s not personally identifiable.
2. The web pages you visit: Google AdSense is used by many web pages for online advertising, and Google’s cookies record your visits to web pages with their ad program on them.
3. The blogs you read: If you use Google Reader, Google knows the blogs you subscribe to. Even if you’re not on Google Reader, Google knows all of the Blogger pages you visit.
4. Your financial information: Users of AdSense and/or Google Checkout share financial information, addresses, and other personal information with ……

What do you think?   Are you worried?

Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience at GOOGLE talks about how and why they work with Open Apps and the development of iGOOGLE. 

YOU TUBE Video    This video is nearly an hour, however, even a short watch/listen yields some lessons learned.

I like the story about why the home page is designed as it is and why simple design is often the best.

What did you take away from it?

Thanks to Chad at UWM for linking me to this video.

This TED video has Segey Brin and Larry Page talking about GOOGLE.   Larry and Sergey Speak

What do you think?  What did you take away from this?