In our last post, we talked about how we use semantic tagging to sift through vast amounts of news and alternative media in order to surface relevant content for Alacra Pulse users. An inherent challenge in semantic technology is the...
Topics: Alacra, Information Industry, Internet and Technology

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Tagging is at the heart of Alacra Pulse – it’s the technology that sifts through hundreds of thousands of stories and blog posts, delivering just the relevant content to our users. In defining the requirements for Alacra Pulse, we needed...
Topics: Alacra, Alacra Pulse, Business & Finance, Internet and Technology, semantic web, tagging

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When we started market research/customer interviews for our Alacra Pulse product, there was no shortage of complaints about dealing with web-based information. News is increasingly breaking on the web and the "real-time web" is gaining in...

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I was sorry to have missed the Web 2.0 Summit this year. Over the weekend I watched a couple of the session videos. The panel discussion titled Whither Journalism, led by John Battelle with Robert Thomson of WSJ, Eric Hippeau...

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The word of the week is curation. I posted about curation as it related to Alacra Pulse, but curation is all over the web. Here are some of the best recent articles and posts by opinion leaders on the web:...
Topics: Information Industry, Internet and Technology

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