I think Jon Udell's LibraryLookup Bookmarklets represent a good example of “Smart Tag”-like technology that is done in a cooperative and non-intrusive way.  Jon Udell's LibraryLookup also puts the lie to Charles Cooper's news.com piece claiming that IE dominance has thwarted innovation.  Jon proved that one guy can extend the browser to do something very… Continue reading Jon Udell's LibraryLookup Bookmarklets

Amazon opens e-commerce engine to web developers. CW360.com [via Moreover]

Tips for attending conferences. On the run-up to the IA Summit, and conference season in general the ever clever Scott Berkun has set pen to paper to give us How to get the most out of conferences Of particular note to conference organizers, and especially academic/research conferences – the most value is in networked, informal,… Continue reading Tips for attending conferences

When Your Future's at Stake….  That was Brobeck's tag line, part of its much-talked about but under-analyzed branding strategy. Until now, that is. Deborah McMurray, one of my co-authors on the cleverly titled The Lawyer's Guide to Marketing on the Internet, dissects Brobeck's brand and the repercussions of its dissolution on the blog devoted to our… Continue reading When Your Future's at Stake…

What's in a topic map?. In our last extension of the XMLMap we closed with a discussion of ontologies and topic maps, both concepts for expressing semantics of resources. This installment tries to explain topic maps with examples taken from our daily lives. By Michael Classen. 0319 [WebReference News]

Open Source in the Corporate Environment – Practical Issues. Many companies are considering using Open Source software. What are the practical questions you must consider. I found a couple of good articles. [DennisKennedy.blog]

OK, David Coursey, is someone I respect. Here's his “five forces that will shape mobile tech.” [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Adding Searching to the Blog: Chad Fowler (www.chadfowler.com) got me interested in searching when he published an article on Latent Semantic Indexing (here). Between us we dinged around with the simple part (building the vectors and calculating cosine differences between articles). The interesting part, using Singular Value Decomposition to cluster articles into What’s Related groups… Continue reading Adding Searching to the Blog

Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA: Although he hasn’t yet used it, Richard Tallnet has posted an article, “Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA“. They are all very valid reasons. I have a post to make later on the subject, but Richard is dead on with his take, this is not a tool for developers… Continue reading Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA

LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Helper pt.2. The Bookmarklet Helper has finally been packaged up and made available. It requires Cocoon though I think it could easily be used with AxKit. It is an interesting exercise in stylesheets, they are really what ties everything together. One possibility for handling different ISBNs for multiple editions of a work is… Continue reading LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Helper pt.2