November 17th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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A Report on Job Searching from OdinJobs:
Open the papers, browse through a magazine and you’d think there are no jobs left in America. Fears of outsourcing have blown our perception of the American job market out of proportion. Reality is far more reassuring. Every day companies come up with new human resource requirements? in fact, it wouldn’t be too far wrong to say, many companies are desperate for people. At the same time, the job market is full of people desperate for newer and better paying opportunities.
The root of the problem lies in the inefficiencies of the current job market structure, specialty job sites and existing search technology. Imagine this. Usually a recruiter needs to find candidates in a very short span of time. He either uses his contacts and calls other recruiters or goes online to popular sites and posts his requirement, hoping to hook the right person.
Typically any post will have several keywords attached to it, to aid the basic keyword search used by most sites. Unfortunately, this means the technology will attach any resume with the keyword in it, regardless of where and how it has been used.
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November 17th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Swoogle is a search engine for the Semantic Web on the Web. Swoogle crawls the World Wide Web for a special class of web documents called Semantic Web documents, which are written in RDF. Currently, it provides the following services to the following services:
- search Semantic Web ontologies
- search Semantic Web instance data
- search Semantic Web terms, i.e., URIs that have been defined as classes and properties
- provide metadata of Semantic Web documents and support browsing the Semantic Web. (Please refer to Li Ding et. al., Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web, ISWC’04 for details)
- archive different versions of Semantic Web documents
Currently, Swoogle only indexes some metadata about Semantic Web documents. It neither stores nor searches all triples in an Semantic Web documents as a triple store.
Why Swoogle? It stands for “Semantic Web Ontology…” (Still trying to figure out the rest!)
Swoogle is a research project being carried out by the ebiquity research groupin the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Partial research support was provided by DARPA contract F30602-00-0591 and by NSF by awards NSF-ITR-IIS-0326460 and NSF-ITR-IDM-0219649. Contributors include Tim Finin, Li Ding, Rong Pan, Anupam Joshi, Pavan Reddivari, Joel Sachs, Pranam Kolari, Akshay Java, Lushan Han, Yun Peng, R. Scott Cost, Sandor Dornbush and Vishal Doshi.
Swoogle provides REST web service to public users. Please read the Search Servicesection in Swoogle Manual to learn the web service interface. In fact, the entire Swoogle website is based on the web services as well.
Swoogle indexes only Semantic Web documents, currently including those written in RDF/XML, N-Triples, N3(RDF) and some documents that embed RDF/XML fragments. The data presented at Swoogle are collected from the public accessible World Wide Web. .
November 17th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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IZOMI (ease your mind) search engine was developed by a team led by Hoang Quoc Viet and Nguyen Huu Thanh and will provide domestic services to Vietnam’s fast growing Internet base.
Viet said they came up with IZOMI accidentally. “I love coffee. Each time I discover an interesting café, I would invite my friends to come. But each time I had to wait hours because they had to get directions. That is when I thought of a service that provides my friends information about a café and its position on the city map just by typing in a key word or sending a message,” Viet said. “When I studied IT in India, I learnt about search engines. After graduating, I worked for the IIT Institute in India and spent my time researching new search technologies, especially Google. I and Thanh had the same idea about designing a new-generation search engine based on web 2.0, named IZOMI,” Viet added.
After only a year of research, IZOMI not only provides information about cafés, it also enables Vietnamese Internet users to seek out local and international information fast and effectively. It not only helps users access information on the Internet but also “answers” questions through automatic chat tools like Yahoo Messenger or MSN. Even when users don’t have an Internet connection, they can still use this service through text messages on their cell phones. Viet said IZOMI’s integration of a strong search engine with other functions, including full text search, information classification, etc are its unique strengths.
IZOMI also provides dictionaries for English, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish. News and online maps are integrated as well, with the latest Ajax map and location technology which allows users to search and change information on the map.
Are you bilingual? Would you like us to cover your home country some week? Just send me an email at: Charles@ReadWriteWeb.com. Clicking on the “Global” tab will show you where we’ve been.
Thanks to VietNamNews for this post.
November 17th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Songza is the brainchild of 23-year-old Aza Raskin — the president of Chicago-based software company Humanized, and the son of Apple Macintosh founder Jef Raskin. Over the course of a month, he and Humanized’s Web/Systems Architect Scott Robbin worked weekends to bring the idea to life. Bloggers and news writers have praised its elegant user interface, beautiful design, and all-around utility.
Songza’s primary purpose is to illustrate how to provide content using a “humane interface” — the term used by Jef Raskin to describe interfaces that reflect how people actually use software. Songza presents this concept through its clean, clutter-free design and transparent remote control. New features will be added in time. Also, unlike KaZaa or Bit Torrent, Songza users can only listen to songs, not download them. And unlike Last.fm or Rhapsody, Songza permits users to choose exactly the song or artist they want to hear, and does not require them to subscribe or pay for its services.
© 2007 From the mind of Aza Raskin and the fingers of Scott Robbin.
November 17th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Grüvr, a provider of localized concert data, has entered into an agreement with MP3 search engine SkreemR, to integrate its local concert map mash-up data within SkreemR search results. Gruvr’s location-aware service pinpoints the user’s location and presents a dynamically updated local map, overlayed with live music information.
To enhance its MP3 search results, Skreemr tapped into Grüvr’s recently launched query API, which offers developers easy accessibility to the company’s extensive database of performing bands. The simple API guesses the viewer’s location and searches for shows by the desired performer in the user’s respective geographic region. If it finds a match, it presents a map of upcoming shows, complete with links to the band’s MySpace page. If no match is found, the user is linked to a map of local upcoming concerts.
Users can also set a one-click email ‘radar’ alert with Grüvr to stay informed of a band’s touring schedule. Gruvr’s concert data joins other valuable relevant content within Skreemr’s search results, including links to related Amazon.com and Wikipedia listings, Flikr photos, and YouTube videos.
“Skreemr has greatly enhanced the relevance of our search results with the addition of Grüvr’s location-based live music map mash-up data,” explained James Gagan, Skreemr CEO. “We are all about building the most useful music search service on the web and live music is a critical component to realizing that vision,” he added.
About SkreemR
SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. The company doesn’t actually host any files, but rather indexes what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. Much more than an MP3 search engine, SkreemR immerses its users into the internet music community, providing suggestions of where to buy the music, links to the sites that host the audio content, information on concert schedules, where to purchase concert tickets, and ways to share your experiences with other fans.
About Grüvr
Grüvr is an interactive map mashup that allows bands and their fans to find each other in a new way – geographically! Grüvr knows how far each fan is from each show. Bands put grüvr tour maps on their profiles to let fans track them on their ‘radar’. Fans can share band maps, monitor artist schedules, get alerts when the band plays locally, and register for email reminders a day before the show. The company is empowering bands and their fans with engaging, localized concert information and widgets that allow for viral distribution across major social networks.
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