Darrell Gunter, EVP/Chief Marketing Officer, Collexis Holdings Inc. referred to an interesting study, Semantic Wave Report 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0, and you can order the executive summary for free. Darrell’s discussion of the knowledge plane where you extract knowledge and concpets, “searching to knowing” was very interesting. He also talked about exploring rather than [...]
Interesting interactive site to visit – Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Just heard from one of the creators, Chris Willis, VP Social Media, Footenote.com, who worked with a team to take pictures of the wall (6500) and then opened the site where people can share memories, memorabilia (including super 8 film), etc. You can search the wall, browse [...]
At Information Today’s Buying & Selling eContent 2008 event, Y.S. Chi, Vice-Chair, Elsevier gave a great analogy about the different levels of content available to users. He compared content to baseball. You can watch a ball game from the bleachers, from box seats, from a private suite with pop-up screens and access to stats, video clips, etc., or [...]
Keen, who came out of O’Reilly’s 2004 Foo Camp as a Web 2.0 skeptic, was interviewed by Information Today VP of Content, Dick Kaser at the Buying & Selling eContent event. Some interesting comments, quotes: We have to get beyond the cult of the innocent/child; how can they be wiser than expert? Best book on [...]