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Neil Movold

Personal Web searching in the age of Semantic Capitalism - 1 views

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    Web search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information online effectively. As the range of information, context and users of Internet searches has grown, the relationship between the search query, search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not all users are seeking the same information, even if they use the same query term. Thus, the quality of search results has, at least potentially, been decreasing. Search engines have begun to respond to this problem by trying to personalise search in order to deliver more relevant results to the users. A query is now evaluated in the context of a user's search history and other data compiled into a personal profile and associated with statistical groups. This, at least, is the promise stated by the search engines themselves. This paper tries to assess the current reality of the personalisation of search results. We analyse the mechanisms of personalisation in the case of Google web search by empirically testing three commonly held assumptions about what personalisation does. To do this, we developed new digital methods which are explained here. The findings suggest that Google personal search does not fully provide the much-touted benefits for its search users. More likely, it seems to serve the interest of advertisers in providing more relevant audiences to them.
Neil Movold

Search Today and Beyond: Optimizing for the Semantic Web | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

  • The search engine strives to understand not just the words, but their context, hence the term semantic search.
  • Google’s new “Hummingbird” algorithm allows the user to conduct what Google calls “conversational searches”. By this they mean that the search engine will take an entire sentence into account, not just the words in the sentence.
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    "Search has changed dramatically over the past year and semantic technology has been at the center of it all. Consumers increasingly expect search engines to understand natural language and perceive the intent behind the words they type in, and search engine algorithms are rising to this challenge. This evolution in search has dramatic implications for marketers, consumers, technology developers and content creators - and it's still the early days for this rapidly changing environment. Here is an overview of how search technology is changing, how these changes may affect you and what you can do to market your business more effectively in the new era of search."
Neil Movold

Semantics Scales Up: Beyond Search in Web 3.0 - 0 views

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    Semantics can enhance a broad variety of information processing - search, integration, analysis, pattern extraction and mining, discovery, situational awareness, and question-answering. Consider search: a search system that could distinguish between "Merry Christmas" as a greeting and one of the 60 or so songs named "Merry Christmas" as cataloged in MusicBrainz (a community-created music encyclopedia; http://musicbrainz.org) would have a powerful semantic search capability.
Neil Movold

The great shift in Search - 0 views

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    "Search is evolving to fit the needs of users who don't just want a web site, but the actual answer to the question driving the search. To stay on top semantic search technologies are key."
Neil Movold

Finding Good News with Semantics - semanticweb.com - 1 views

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    A new search engine allows users to search for good news. According to the article, "Jurriaan Kamp editor of Ode Magazine in San Francisco has created a new search engine. Ode Wire, available here in its beta form uses semantic search technology to spot optimism on the web, and delivers users news stories from an 'uplifting' angle.
Neil Movold

The Future of Search Not : Beyond Search - 0 views

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    In the hyperlinked  write up, the author pointed out three "items" which appear to make clear a topic I find quite unclear. My reaction was that these items do not capture search either of the moment or some "to be" world where content management experts, governance specialists, and "real" journalists look for information. The items described a future that underscores a conceptual problems in thinking about information retrieval.
Neil Movold

Social + Location + Real Time + These 2 Startups = The Future Of Search - 1 views

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    Social, although hot right now, is not the only technology transforming the web today. Location-based social search applications are bridging the gap between our online and offline worlds - and in doing so creating a whole new way for people to find and use information.
Neil Movold

Millennial Generation's ability to search is erratic and problematic according to a new... - 0 views

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    Results. Statistically significant findings suggest that millennial generation Web searchers proceed erratically through an information search process, make only a limited attempt to evaluate the quality or validity of information gathered, and may perform some level of 'backfilling' or adding sources to a research project before final submission of the work.
Neil Movold

SemTech 2011 Coverage: The RDFa/SEO Wave - How to Catch It and Why - semanticweb.com - 0 views

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    In Barbara Starr's (Ontologica) session this week at Semtech 2011, San Francisco, she presented a detailed timeline outlining the adoption of RDFa and semantic search enhancements by the major search engines.
Neil Movold

5 ways Semantic Technologies help us all - 0 views

  • First, semantic technology helps us “Find more relevant and useful information because it enables us to search information from disparate sources (federated search) and automatically refine our searches (faceted search).”
  • Second, semantic technology helps us “Better understand what is happening because it enables us to use the relationships between concepts to predict and interpret change.”
  • “Build more transparent systems and communications because it is based on common meanings and mutual understanding of the key concepts and relationships that govern our business ecosystems.”
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  • “Increase our effectiveness, efficiency and strategic advantage because it enables us to make changes to our information systems more quickly and easily.”
  • “Become more perceptive, intelligent and collaborative because it enables us to ask questions we couldn’t ask before.”
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    "Janice Lawrence of Semantic Arts recently shared a list of five business benefits - and truly, public benefits - of semantic technology solutions. Here are the benefits that she came up with along with links to some of our own articles underscoring each point. "
Neil Movold

The personalized web is just an Interest Graph away - 0 views

  • I recently discussed the idea of interest graphs with Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto, who described how his company determines visitors’ interests so its content-industry customers can deliver personalized experiences.
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    You know how our social graphs are creeping into every aspect of our web lives, from search results to coupons? Well, get ready for something a lot more personal, a lot more targeted and, perhaps, a lot more creepy. Much as social graphs are maps of our social media connections that follow us across the web, interest graphs are maps of our interests. Some companies want them to follow us across the web, too, meaning that wherever we go, there we are. There'll be no more need to search through news sites for the stories we want, or shopping sites for the products we want, because the site will know as soon as we hit its system who we are and what we like. Whether you're fascinated or appalled by the idea of interest graphs, here's a taste of how they might work.
Neil Movold

Ask.com CTO Lisa Kavanaugh On Teaching An Old Answer Site Brand-New Tricks with Semanti... - 0 views

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    "We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from its own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web.
Neil Movold

MIT Entrepreneurship Review | How the Interest Graph will shape the future of the web - 0 views

  • The Interest Graph has been described as the “middle ground between Google and Facebook – between search, advertising, and the social graph”. Simply put, Google creates their version of the Interest Graph by mining my search queries and other data collected online, for example through Gmail or Google Maps.  It then offers advertisers a way to personalize their messages. One of the problems is the often high noise level in the data due to the lack of context (e.g. I might be looking up something for a friend rather than myself), which decreases relevancy. Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around social search as studies have shown that friend recommendations are much more powerful than traditional advertising in influencing consumer behavior and purchasing decisions.
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    What do Color, Quora, Hunch, Blippy, and StockTwits have in common? They are examples of companies that generate value for their users by leveraging the concept of the Interest Graph. The list also features some of the most promising startups right now, having raised close to $100 million in venture funding. Pure coincidence?
Neil Movold

From Intuition to Creation - 0 views

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    "What is creative strategy? It's a classic case of "theory to practice." My previous book, Strategic Intuition, laid out the theory. It explained the science of how creative ideas happen in the human mind and documented how successful innovators actually came up with their innovations. This new book, Creative Strategy, is the practice: it shows how to apply that theory as an innovation method yourself. Here's how it works: you start with a problem or situation where you aim for an innovation, break that down in to elements of the problem, and then search for precedents that solve each element. You then see a subset of these precedents come together in your mind as a new combination that solves the problem. That idea is your innovation"
Neil Movold

Transforming the Workplace: Critical Skills and Learning Methods for the Successful 21s... - 0 views

  • The fading ranks of middle management have lost their edge, thanks to revolutions in both technology and globalization. Indeed, the latest wave of technology advances—cloud computing, advanced mobile applications and devices, and rapidly expanding social networks to name a few—have greatly eased access to knowledge work. Nowhere is this change seen more dramatically than with the rapidly ascending workforce in high-growth markets outside the United States. Business writer Seth Godin remarks ominously, “If you're the average person out there doing average work, there's going to be someone else out there doing the exact same thing as you, but cheaper.” The game has shifted to a far more competitive, globally-connected field of play, requiring individuals to differentiate themselves in authentic, compelling ways like never before. Godin concludes, “If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.”
  • How We Will Learn: Technology-Enabled Informal LearningWhen we talk about fostering agility, curiosity and continuous learning, we’re fortunate because today we have a host of Web-based technologies (including social, mobile, video, games, and personalized portals) that can serve as perfect tools to support the self-directed learner.By utilizing technology-enabled informal learning resources, collaborative learners can easily share and exchange knowledge, and self-directed learners can continuously teach themselves. These tools allow us to gain and share knowledge when, where and how we want it.Technology-enabled informal learning (that is, technology-based learning that takes place outside a formal classroom environment) also makes sense for organizations because we know that people learn in a variety of ways, and they usually like to learn on their own terms. This insight is derived from Howard Gardner, the influential educational thinker, who has argued that all of us have multiple intelligences. Adjusting and adapting to this cognitive norm, Gardner explains, will generally result in greater skill development and sharper problem solving.
  • According to ASTD’s Learning Executive’s Confidence Index for the fourth quarter of 2011, almost 55% of learning executives expect an increase in the use of informal learning and Web 2.0 tools in their organizations over the next 6 months.
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  • According to Nucleus Research, the average sales person spends 3 to 5 hours per week searching for information across five corporate systems, leaving two out of every three searches feeling overwhelmed by the volume of information they must process. Recent research from the University of Texas concludes that a mere 10% increase in information accessibility results in a 14.4% increase in sales.
  • It’s these passionate, self-directed learners who will help drive the 21st century workforce transformation that our global economy requires.
  • The Self-Directed Learner Is an Inspired LearnerSelf-directed learners are intrinsically motivated. They understand that their passion for learning is fundamentally connected to their ability to differentiate themselves and succeed in the workplace. They know where they need to get smarter to add even more value to their organizations and to advance their careers. They take responsibility for their own learning because they are passionate, inspired and curious.
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    "There are many explanations for today's uncertain economy. But Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has advanced an analysis that's starting to resonate. In a recent article, Stiglitz says that our problem is "rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we're losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want, and the kind we don't know what to do with." To advance our economy, Stiglitz believes that wrenching, fundamental change is required - no less dramatic than the shifts experienced by an earlier generation during the Great Depression. While Stiglitz and I work in different worlds, I see evidence in all types of organizations that we need to better prepare, train, and inspire successful self-directed learners to meet today's challenges. As I see it, there are two big questions to consider. First, what are the critical 21st century skills that the workforce of tomorrow needs to develop and master today? Secondly, how can we improve our learning methods to enable the self-directed learner to thrive in this new environment?"
Neil Movold

The Importance of RDFa - Infographic - 0 views

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    "RDFa (or Resource Description Framework - in - attributes) is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based document types for embedding rich metadata within Web documents. What does that mean? It means that RDFa give your content more meaning… it allows content to make sense to the search engines. Right now, when a bot crawls your site, it only picks up content and spits it back out - it has no idea what that content really means. With RDFa, the bots can now identify specific information through implementation of RDFa code and appropriate snippets. "
Neil Movold

The AHA! MOMENT - The Creative Science behind Inspiration - 0 views

  • Jon Kounios of Drexel University and Mark Beeman of Northwestern University used fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) brain-image scanning and EEG (electroencephalography) sensors to document the neural activity of volunteers as they worked to solve word problems.
  • Kounios and Beeman found a distinctive spark of high gamma activity that would spike one-third of a second before volunteers consciously arrived at an answer.
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    For most of us, it usually occurs at the most inopportune times; never when we're searching for it. To Archimedes, it happened in the bathtub. Newton experienced it while wandering an apple orchard. Arthur Fry: church. Each encountered an epiphany, that powerful moment of spontaneous insight. Archimedes shouted Eureka! upon realizing how to calculate density and volume; to Newton came the law of universal gravity; to Arthur Fry, Post-it notes.
Neil Movold

The Future of the Social Web: Social Graphs Vs. Interest Graphs - 0 views

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    Social networks seemed poised to take over the Web. This year, Facebook reached 800 million users. LinkedIn went public in a blockbuster stock offering. Twitter produced a billion tweets per week. And Google launched its own social network, Google+, attracting 25 million users in one month. Amid the continued growth of these social networks, there has been much excitement about how the rest of the Web would soon be infused with all things "social": social search, social commerce, social deals and more. And yet the effort to socialize the rest of the Web has so far failed to live up to its promise. Why?
Neil Movold

Gamification Is More Than A Game For Businesses - Forbes - 0 views

  • My premise is that the term gamification doesn’t accurately depict the benefits a business can achieve.
  • The truth is that game mechanics have been used in business for some time. For example, companies currently use leader boards for sales and loyalty programs for customers. We are already using other terms that offer some of the same benefits such as engagement strategies, game mechanics, advocacy, and rewards.
  • Why do we care about gamification?
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  • Duggan says it’s bigger than gamification because it incorporates all the ways we can measure and influence behavior.
  • Badgeville describes it as encompassing trends such as game mechanics, big data, identity, analytics, reputation, social, community and collaboration. BLM is the process of measuring and influencing behavior to meet your business goals.
  • behavior lifecycle management (BLM)
  • gamification provides benefits to almost any firm but you need to focus on building the experience and adapting the experience over time to keep your constituents engaged.
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    Gamification is the latest buzzword on the street. It ranked a keynote panel session at Enterprise 2.0 in November and it was one of two main topics discussed at the recent Institute for Social, Search and Mobile Marketing (ISSMM) K1 Executive Roundtable.  
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