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A New Way to Search, Toronto Star

'A whole new lens on the web'
Search engine omits popular sites, leading to more random results [Search engine: Million Short] Toronto Star, Morgan Campbell, May 30, 2012

Definitely not the Oxford (Visual bookmark for the search ages uses Google to illustrate all 20,000 words found in dictionary), Stephanie Findlay; Toronto Star; May 30, 2012; pg. A.3;

Business Planet: Mapping the Business Environment

Info courtesy: Dr. John Jaeger
Interesting World Bank Site - "Take a trip around the world to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 181 economies."
Your business faculty members might find this site particularly interesting.

Becoming Screen Literate (aka Digital Literacy, Browser Literacy)

By KEVIN KELLY
Published: November 21, 2008 @ NYTimes.com
Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a movie on the backseat of a plane. We will watch anywhere. Screens playing video pop up in the most unexpected places — like A.T.M. machines and supermarket checkout lines and tiny phones; some movie fans watch entire films in between calls. These ever-present screens have created an audience for very short moving pictures, as brief as three minutes, while cheap digital creation tools have empowered a new generation of filmmakers, who are rapidly filling up those screens. We are headed toward screen ubiquity. continue reading

NB. Info courtesy: doshdosh.com

See also on the same shelf:

Semantic, Syntactic and Lexical Web Revisted

Australian company launches 3D Internet tool

Computers figuring out what words mean

BlindConfidential: Three Dimensional Web Interfaces

Conceptual, Semantic, Syntactic and Lexical Model

the meaning: Between syntatic and semantic information

From our previous posts:

• Semantic web search comes of age -- iCognue


• Labels: Semantic Web

10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks

10 Amazing Visualizations of Social Networks

includes:

• Fidg’t’ : Visualize
• ICCARUS: scouta.com
• looks del.icio.us
• Myspace attitudes
• IRC arcs
• Biblical Social Network
• Wells Fargo: Network Environment
• OS Relationships
• flowerGarden
• Power Players: Pinpoint and Predict

Info courtesy: BPWebNews

Sensory Information Navigation - The Next Stage of Web Evolution = Web 3.0?

• The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
• The Magic Touch(sm): Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases
• The Next WAVe(sm): Auditory Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
• Text~Tone(sm): Auditory Highlighting/Rating of Text
• Morning Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation
• "New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic Journals"
  

More from Gerry McKiernan @ Scholarship 2.0: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Semantic web search comes of age -- iCognue

• Semantic web search comes of age:
  

by Kambam Deepak, The LMai algorithm; Sums up links.

• SEO Ahmedabad : Learn & Share Everything about SEO

  New Internet Search Engine

  Hi Friends, I came across a very good article about new upcoming search engine iCognue. Here it goes.

  Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) announced the launch of iCognue, its much awaited internet search engine powered by LMai (Latent Metonymical Analysis and Indexing), an algorithm for deriving the contextual relationship for a search topic.

• Google in sight, search engines are getting smarter

Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time

60 minute Google TechTalk: Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time. Source, and Essay




Info courtesy: Self-awarness of the Net

Visual Search Assistant & Visual Browsers Revisited

[Info courtesy: nadeem.shabir, Talis @ YouTube adds Visual Browser]

OSkope Visual Search - A Fun Way To Search YouTube, Flickr, Ebay
Tags: OSkope Visual Search How Tutorial YouTube Video Images Flickr Amazon Ebay



OSkope Visual Search - A Fun Way To Search YouTube, Flickr, Ebay - Watch the top videos of the week here


"oSkope visual search" a playful way to browse for products, images and videos on Amazon, Ebay, YouTube and Flickr. You can save your searches and play videos directly on oSkope.


see also on the same shelf and aisle:

My Blog posts on Visual Browsing

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/oskope.html posted @ swissmiss.

iDesktop.tv is a bright light in a sea of video conversion suck

Other Graphic tools that facilitate visualization: Browsing your FOAF social graph / Graph Gear and SpringGraph Flex Component: Includes: Thesaurus Roamer lets you explore connections between words and meanings, using thesaurus data from thesaurus.com; and Amazon Roamer uses a SpringGraph and Amazon Web Services to browse the “similar products” links of items from Amazon.com.

World-Wide Web Map, From .ad to .za

Info courtesy: AssembleMe

Mapping the Unmappable: Visualization continues to advance

Quotable quote of the year: 16 years ago today the word "Internet" first appeared on af ront page or cover of the major media: Wall Street Journal, Page One, the story about eBooks -- 29 Oct, 2007. Thus said: Michael S. Hart, Founder Project Gutenberg

• Researchers Create Map of the Net By Anick Jesdanun, USA Today, Oct 2007 [info courtesy: Dr. John Jaeger, Dallas Baptist University]
• Mapping the Unmappable: Visual Representations of the Internet as Social Constructions by .Adam B. King SLIS-Strategic Leadership in Information Science Indiana University Center For Social Informatics Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/csi

See in same shelf and aisle:

• Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure
• metaphors and misconceptions
• Putting up Internet borders Nov 05, 2007 04:30 AM Michael Geist Toronto Star

A looming legal crises on the Internet, MICHAEL RIGLER, The Western Star

Blog Copying Visualized

NB. Copying and reproducing with permission, is one--I try my best to follow this path. But, do so without any permission, is another and concerns many in the blogosphere--see links, below, many bloggers are discussing this issue. I am not sure if RSS feeds' or any other feeds allow you go on with this for ever (without you noticing, or being aware)?

I googled, and the result of this search was astonishing (because my Blog's content was simply being reproduced word-by-word @ www.visualizationblog.net) And, the author / owner is replaced by: Written by admin on October 5th, 2007:

Information Visualization: Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ...
..akbani.blogspot.com/2007/08/thought-of-day-intelligent-metadata.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to ... - 9:12pm
Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization … The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization ...www.visualizationblog.net/.../ - 18k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Much more...
The Human Mind: What Gives? (10.5.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/square-pie.../ (10.4.2007)
Visual Design as an Information Design tool (10.4.2007)
http://www.visualizationblog.net/2007/10/04/information-visualization.../ (10.4.2007)
Converting Browsers Into Buyers — Know Your Ecommerce Math (10.4.2007)
Visual immersion using Web Analytics (10.4.2007)
Don’t Make Me Think! Just use the Microsoft Expression (10.4.2007)
Browse articles visually with WikiMindMap (10.4.2007)
IEEE InfoVis 2007 (10.2.2007)

See whois www.visualizationblog.net

And, a reverse IP (@ whois shows, the possibility of at least 134 Websites / bloggers getting equal treatment....): Reverse IP: 134 other sites hosted on this server.

See also: What is Plagiarism? Don't Know, Click here or read here: "Passing off someone's work as your own is known as plagiarism. Individuals who plagiarize material deliberately are committing an illegal act and it is unethical at best! It's ok to use pictures and paraphrase text but be sure to cite the source of your information. Thank you. (Info from http://www.personal.psu.edu/)"

Bloggers Concerns:

• Guide for Proper Use
  19 Oct 2007 by Ashok kumar My content is written only for my Websites and do not allow anyone to republish in any website or Blog. Copying means you are stealing not only articles and also my hard work. Eblog4every1 - http://eblog4every1.blogspot.com/


• Blog plagiarism — Steal this blog!
  28 Dec 2005 by Mathew Is wholesale blog-copying wrong? Obviously. Is Google making money from the AdSense ads that run on such sites? Yes. But I don’t think that means Google needs to police the problem, as Jeff Jarvis and some others believe. ...mathewingram.com/work - http://www.mathewingram.com/work


• Further thoughts on plagiarism
  19 Apr 2006 by Beth If I ran a blog copying the thoughts and writings of a hungarian writer, only translating it into english, probably no one, not in 10000 years, would ever realize the cheat. Screeeeeeeeem. The more you think about it, the deeper down ...Grand Mental Station - http://confessionalpoet.typepad.com/grand_mental_station/


• How to Approach Content Theft by Fellow Bloggers & MSM


• PLAGIARISM - SHOCKING !!!


• what this blogger says about penalties.... etc. on plagiarism
  http://myworksh0p.blogspot.com/2005/11/index.html


• Copying blog entries
  12 Oct 2005 by Nishi Read this entry about "copying blog entries without permission." via, Instapundit.Nishi's Blogosphere - http://photophunk.blogspot.com
• Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search
  by Alex Walker


• And Google it

Web Analytics and Qualitative Insight: Listen.See.Smell.Taste.Touch

PS. In the following is an attempt by an expert to demystify Web Analytics. While most often heard is why or the quantitative and that which tends to excite, herein is what or the qualitative insight--i.e., the other side of the coin.

"2 Simple Steps to Finding Your Website's Voice" @ GrokDotCom: byHolly Buchanan

Posted in Branding and Advertising Rants | Persuasive Online Copywriting | Articles | Persuasive Copywriting | Customer Experience | Copywriting | Relationship Building

"When you have a conversation with a human being (as opposed to having a conversation with a cat, which if you've ever owned one, you know how well that goes) you get a sense of that person's personality. The clothes they wear, their tone of voice, how they move, the words they use - all of this gives you insight into who the person is.

Every website visit is a conversation. Think about it. The web is an interactive medium. Every time you click you ask a question. You interact with the company or brand. What kind of answers are you getting? Do you get a sense of whom you are talking to? Do you have any sense of who the company/brand is?

I'm hearing a resounding answer of, "Not so much."

Your design, images, and copy all combine to convey your company or brand's personality. Of all of these, I would argue that copy is perhaps the most important element for conveying your website's personality or voice. As a copywriter, there are two things you must do:

1 - Have a clear understanding of your personality, brand or voice
2 - Convey that personality, brand or voice to your audience

Here are suggestions for how to accomplish this.

Step One: How to clarify your company's personality, brand or voice ...

Step Two: How to convey that voice in your copy ...

click here and continue reading

IEEE InfoVis 2007

October 28 - October 30, 2007

Join us Sunday, October 28, through Tuesday, October 30, 2007, in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization 2007 Conference and IEEE VAST 2007 Symposium in Sacramento, California.

The conference program is now set. Please click here for a schedule of conference events.

Keynote and Capstone speakers set. Two dynamic invited speakers, Matthew Ericson of the New York Times (IEEE InfoVis keynote) and Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge (combined IEEE InfoVis capstone/IEEE VAST capstone) will be presenting talks.

click here for more info

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia

"A new visualization Bruce Herr and I recently completed is being featured in this week’s New Scientist Magazine (the article is free online, minus the viz). They did a good job jazzing up the language used to describe the viz–’power struggle’, ‘bubbling mass’, ‘blitzed articles’–but they also dumbed down the technical accomplishments. I guess not everyone gets as excited about algorithms as I do. "

Visual immersion using Web Analytics

Practical analytics: persuasion scenarios
@ immeria - An immersion in Web Analytics,
by S.Hamel

A typical site is composed of several conversion objectives: registering to a newsletter, purchasing something, finding the nearest store, or any activity that represent a positive outcome for the user and the site owner. As Brian Eisenberg puts it, those represents the "conversion points" of a "persuasion scenario":

continue reading:

Practical analytics: persuasion scenarios

See also my previous posts:

Eye to I: Visual Literacy

Add Sense to your AdSense: Visualizing the Return on Investment?

Look and Feel of Browsers and Websites

Concept Mapping Technology - Tool to create HTML pathfinders?

Visualizing the Innernet or Visual Display of the Website's Infostructure - AHAREF

Don't Make Me Think! Just use the Microsoft Expression

The following is a product review. It is hoped that Microsoft Expression (ME) will be a better tool for information visualization:

The next generation of web development
Nikhil kumar, Deccan Herald » August 15, 2007
"Microsoft Expression Web is a professional design tool to create sophisticated standards-based Web sites that deliver compelling user experiences, says Mr. Tarun Gulati, General Manager - Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India."

How better is MS Expression compared to MS Frontpage?
Microsoft Expression is a suite of tools for professional designers building web and Windows client applications and rich media content.

Expression Studio provides an end-to-end tools platform for teams of creative designers which boosts collaboration with developers in the delivery of next-generation user experiences for Windows, the Web and beyond.

The Expression studio suite include Expression Web, Blend , design and media, together all of which allows the developers and designers to deliver visually rich content for various type of media.

Microsoft Frontpage is discontinued and its functionality is split between two different products; Microsoft Expression Web & Microsoft Sharepoint Designer. Expression Web is targeted at professional Web designers who build broad reach HTML Web sites. Continue reading

Thought-of-the-Day - The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization ...

The Intelligent Metadata approach to information virtualization solves both ‘back-end’ information integration problems and ‘front-end’ Business Intelligence bottlenecks. continue reading

Visual Design as an Information Design tool

NB. Design, Visual perception and Web Sight all go here hand-in-hand

This is what an information architect @ Yahoo, Abhishek Kumar says, and I quote

Visual Design or Graphic Design as people might call it; has been mostly associated with the Experience and Look n Feel part of design. But Visual design is tremendously powerful tool when it comes to information design / information architecture. I personally feel the real power of this has not been truly utilized on the web. With usage of the age old “Gestalts Law” information can be presented in a very interesting manner. The kind of tools that Visual design uses are – Typography, Color, Placement, Layout, Texture/patterns, etc. continue reading