In the forth post of his Gear Head Sentimeter series, Mark Gibbs wraps up the saga of developing this near real-time topical Twitter sentiment analysis tool. In Part 3, Gibbs had just fired up Microsoft's Fiddler, a free Web debugging tool, to try to figure out why the Sentimeter was generating errors.
Currently one of every five Web ads in the United States is placed on a social networking site such as MySpace and Facebook, according to a new report by analytics firm comScore.
Google’s Research Awards Program identifies and funds scientific research projects that Google believes has the potential to make the world, and its core business, better. Recently, the Google Research team highlighted seven academic researchers whose work has captured the company's imagination.
Associated Content compares semantic search engine Kosmix to Google and comes away unimpressed with the current crop representing the supposed future of search. Click through to read the critique and weigh in on our comments.
Google has made a major announcement regarding how they'll be using RDFa and microformats to inform their search result summaries.
Everyone is talking about it, so before what you hear becomes entrenched hearsay, read it at the source.
Google has announced that they'll be using microformats and RDFa information from searched pages to inform their search results. Tim O'Reilly provides thoughtful discussion on what Google's announcement means and the implicit irony of the search giant embracing semantic markup.