May 29th, 2009 by Steffen Schilke
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NewsCred – built up by lots of credible sources – chosen from newspaper sites (100 biggest newspapers and top 50 US newspapers) and the top 100 blogs ranked by Technorati. In addition they took recommendation friends, family, bloggers and the NewsCred blog community for their sources. This is an interesting twist as they take every month the 25 most user requested sources and add them to their list.
Just below the categories and the topics of the active category you will see the breaking news. Then columns filled with news. Their first column sources news paper information whereas the second column presents news bits from blogs. Naturally they offer news categories (e.g., World, US, Technology etc) and topics (e.g., events, people, organizations, companies and places) which are created automatically based on profiles. The topics are presented in a kind of visual headline style by using a image to present the topic.
In the case of NewsCred – compared to, e.g., Newser – the audience decides the credibility of the author, articles and the news sources by voting and not the people which run the site. This is an advantage but can also backfire if people team up to flash mob the site or push a certain author, news source or story. The voting influences the CredRank (Credibility Ranking) of the voted item but it also has an effect on the author or media the article has appeared in. Which has an effect on the position in the Top Sources and Top Authors list as well.
In order to participate in this you have to register for an account and then you are able to personalize your newspaper by selecting your favorite news sources. Once you click on the sources the system remembers your choice.
A nice thing is that they list their sources at the bottom of the page.
If you want to have a first look, the 90 second tour is a trip worth taking.
It is not user generated content and lacks a lot of the webish 2.0 marketing stuff but it is user ranked content from other sources which – once a stable community is established – should generate great results based on the self cleaning and self healing effects in the community based on the CredRank voting. Like James Surowiecki wrote in his book “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few …” [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
May 20th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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May 13th, 2009 by Steffen Schilke
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The AUMA search engine is available in German, English, French and Spanisch. The Service is provided by the AUMA – Ausstellungs- und Messe-Ausschuss der Deutschen Wirtschaft e.V. which is kind of a business association of the German Businesses. The Trade Fair Data can be searched for Germany and Worldwide.
The filters available are:
* year
* month
* city
* country (state when using the German search page)
* Continent (not available when searching in Germany)
* Industry sector
* Keyword or you type in the title or organizer.
In addition you can sort the hit list chronologically or geographically. The hit list shows you when the trade fair / exhibition is, what the name is and in which city the event happens. Besides that a classification is shown if the event is a national or international event. You can print or sent the hit via email. There is also a link which allows you to add the event to you calendar. If you click on the hit you will get a detailed view of the event.
Depending on the available data you will find information about:
* venue
* date
* interval
* founded
* organizer
* exhibitor database
* industry sector
* product groups
* opening hours
* space rental
* hotel services
* statistics
* origin of exhibitors
* visitors
This site is also extremely useful if you plan a trip to a city and you want to check if during the time of your visit the hotel prices will triple because of a trade fair. Besides the trade fair / exhibition data you can search for addresses and links to trade fair related organizations. The AUMA also offers documents, guides etc. for download and in their library. This might be useful if you want to introduce your product and services to a country and you want to hit a trade show to present or hunt for a distributor.
May 13th, 2009 by Guest Author
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We may be coming upon a new era for the Internet search.
Google dominates the search world, but some sites are trying to expand the possibilities.
And, despite what you may think, Google is not the only player.
New search engines that are popping up across the Web strive to make searches faster, smarter, more personal and more visually interesting.
Photo and Text Source: CNN.com/technology here:
Read about:
*Twine
*Hakia
*Searchme
*Kosmix
*Alpha
*Twitter
*Google
*Cuil
*Facebook
*FriendFeed
*Scoopler
*TweetMeme
*OneRiot
…and in a staff letter published last week on Google’s blog, company co-founder Sergey Brin wrote about making searches more intelligent. “Perfect search requires human-level artificial intelligence, which many of us believe is still quite distant,” he wrote. “However, I think it will soon be possible to have a search engine that ‘understands’ more of the queries and documents than we do today.”
“Others claim to have accomplished this, and Google’s systems have more smarts behind the curtains than may be apparent from the outside, but the field as a whole is still shy of where I would have expected it to be.”
May 12th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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