Attention profiling: how radical do you want radical transparency to be?
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APML is a proposed standard that allows users to share their own personal attention profile and compress all forms of attention data into one portable file format that can be traded between attention seekers and givers.
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Folksonomies Web 2.0 pioneers are taking personal control of how online content is organised, according to new research.â¦
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A new open-source search engine lets users vote on results.
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Does Apple sow disinformation among its workers to sniff out leakers? Commentary by Leander Kahney.
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Now that weâve analyzed the causes for verbal vitriol on the Net, letâs consider a cure. Readers like Ryan , Andrew and Forest Bell blamed the smears and flames on the anonymity offered by the Web. Thereâs lots of research to back the notion that an end to anonymity would encourage people to be nicer. [...].
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How some companies neglect simple marketing rules in Search Engine Optimization.
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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
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Fast, intelligent, automatic spam detector using Paul Graham style Bayesian analysis of word counts in spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes automatically. No manual rule creation required. This release adds the final missing pieces to the new parser code.  MBX files and Content-Length headers are now supported.  Database cleanup when signals are caught has also been improved.  I would like to move 1.1 into the stable branch fairly soon so if folks would test out this release and report any problems it would be a big help!   The latest release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61201&package_id=73566
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See how smarter documents are working for others at
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A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of the Wikipedia tracker that reveals who has edited the entries.
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New search tools include both people and discussion finders.
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.
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Detlev Johnson of Search Return hosted this session, and its speaker Shari Thurow, on the basics of search engine design and optimization.  This is a must-attend session for businesses entering the search engine marketing world or those intending to redesign a site or enter the SEO market.    Search engine friendly design takes elements of search [...]
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Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what &#8220;other people are saying on the web right now.&#8221;  Serph, in limited beta testing, seems to be a bit different from Technorati or BlogPulse in terms of total social media coverage. If you&#8217;d [...]
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This week we look at several ideas to creatively and productively use your autoresponder to transform the casual visitor into a profitable customer. By Nelson Tan. 1126
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The arguments between search marketers and search engines about what constitutes a paid link, and whether it should matter, is a complex and emotional subject. Let's try to put it in perspective.
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Spotlight hits political activism in virtual world. Naturally, mainstream media wants to know if terrorism is next.Images: In-world griefing attacks