tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52026762011-04-21T22:18:00.739-07:00Building a Better Future, Click by ClickMy thoughts on ways to improve the future of humanity, accelerate economic development, develop useful new software and manage knowledge.
Ashfaq Tunio,
Consultant [Business Strategies and Redesign; Knowledge Management; Accelerated Development].
email: drtunio@gmail.comAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1131720437631633072005-11-11T06:46:00.000-08:002005-11-11T06:47:17.683-08:00Getting paid to visit and use websites?http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/10/should_flickr_p.html#trackbackAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1131719097884468972005-11-11T06:23:00.000-08:002005-11-11T06:44:56.036-08:00Cheap Robots (PCs on wheels)http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/05/brainy_pcs_on_w.htmlhttp://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000907021772AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1131718542718190792005-11-11T06:14:00.000-08:002005-11-11T06:15:42.870-08:00The Long Tail (Wired Magazine article)http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.htmlAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1131718129411406832005-11-11T06:07:00.000-08:002005-11-11T06:08:49.436-08:00The Power Of Us Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business The 35 employees at Meiosys Inc., a software firm in Palo Alto, Calif., didn't know they were joining a gang of telecom-industry marauders. They just wanted to save a few bucks. Last year they began using Skype, a program that lets them make free calls over the Internet, with better sound quality than regular phones, usingAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130508616146240192005-10-28T07:09:00.000-07:002005-10-28T07:10:16.206-07:00Information Visualisationhttp://www.k-praxis.com/archives/information_visualization/000062.htmlAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130507974474663772005-10-28T06:49:00.000-07:002005-10-28T07:04:51.933-07:00Map Hacks on CrackThe internet's two largest search engines are begging to get hacked.On Wednesday, Google opened a set of programming interfaces for its popular service, in the hope hackers will overlay the maps with data from outside sources -- such as wireless cafes.Just one day later, Yahoo announced its own set of programming tools for its map service, Yahoo Maps.Both companies are hoping AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130507327165758512005-10-28T06:47:00.000-07:002005-10-28T06:48:47.350-07:00What's new in search: Prospective Search?February 28, 2005The ‘search’ functionality forms the base of most internet operations today.K-praxis has, in previous posts, speculated on the future of search. With the advent of ‘prospective search’ this functionality is now branching off in a different direction. What is the scope and potential of prospective search? How is it different from AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130506140753226682005-10-28T06:27:00.000-07:002005-10-28T06:29:00.756-07:00Google Gets EarthyBy Daniel TerdimanStory location: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68042,00.html02:00 AM Jun. 30, 2005 PTGoogle mappers can now tag and share their favorite locations with other users, who can then spot those choice Yosemite camp sites or find the most intriguing Polish medieval buildings.On Tuesday, Google launched Google Earth, a free software package that gives AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130439710867494182005-10-27T12:00:00.000-07:002005-10-27T12:01:50.916-07:00The Dawn of the E-Lance EconomyIn this eye-opening article, Thomas W. Malone and Robert J. Laubacher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology look at how a new kind of organization could form the basis of a new kind of economy--an e-lance economy--where all the old rules of business are overturned and big companies are rendered obsolete.Drawing on their research at MIT's Initiative on AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130438188127154972005-10-27T11:35:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:36:28.186-07:00A good paper on e-lancinghttp://www.janus-eu.org/Documents/EBEW/eLancing.pdfAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130437919379322702005-10-27T11:31:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:31:59.436-07:00The Future of Knowledge Managementby Ross DawsonAugust 2004In the much vaunted "hype cycle" of business trends and fads, knowledge management has already plumbed the depths of disillusionment. However as it edges towards maturity as a business discipline, it is spawning successors that are more relevant to our times, and that offer more direct business traction. The original premise of knowledge AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130437783307006192005-10-27T11:27:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:29:43.360-07:00Workplace PredictionsWhat's Next? Work Auctions? Resume Implants?by James E. ChallengerImagine one day employers bidding for workers in online auctions, work schedules set by the year vs. the week, and colleges offering a degree program in generational mediation.These are just some of the scenarios that could result from a society where the number of retirement-age Americans - 65 and older - willAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130437313650251672005-10-27T11:20:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:21:53.706-07:00e-LancingTemp freelancers mine the web for workby Robert Celaschi--------------------------------------------------------------------------------After Bruce Bockie got caught in his third layoff in 1994, he knew he needed to take a different approach to his career. He didn't change his line of work - he's still a data process engineer - but he did change the way he offered his services.Back then AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130437089154925562005-10-27T11:17:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:18:09.210-07:00How Marvellous Minds Make MoneyThis article was originally published in Vol 16 No 12 December 1999 of Executive Excellence - Australia EditionThe application of technology is rapidly and dramatically changing the face and form of business. We've read it, we've seen it, we know it. The business models of Internet companies—and increasingly all companies—are constantly changing in response to AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436952274594322005-10-27T11:14:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:15:52.333-07:00Information farms in developing countries© Copyright 1994-2002, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. All rights reserved.Electric Dreams #3424/October/1994The greatest effect of the information revolution will be felt in developing countries. While in much of the world, the growth of connectivity means a choice of 500 channels on television instead of 50, this is hardly revolutionary. Allowing people to do more AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436821623922092005-10-27T11:11:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:13:41.680-07:00Knowledge brokers and the decline of corporations© Copyright 1994-2002, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. All rights reserved.Electric Dreams #367/November/1994An information economy will have little use for traditional corporations with their hierarchy of managers and employees. Decentralization will be taken to its extreme limit, with the individual as the smallest economic unit of production. Greater and AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436690324328852005-10-27T11:10:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:11:30.376-07:00Knowledge, revolution, and cotton-mill capitalism© Copyright 1994-2002, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. All rights reserved.Electric Dreams #8027/November/1995Knowledge revolution is a catchy term, that's why it's been overused into being almost an epithet. Actually, what is happening in the world today is hardly a revolution at all. Although the shape of the world may be changing, it will not happen all at AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436507759667912005-10-27T11:07:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:08:27.816-07:00Information Overload - Problem or Opportunity?This article was originally published in Company Director, October 1997"We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is." John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends.Information overload is a fact of life for company directorsAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436334638535222005-10-27T11:02:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:05:34.713-07:00Meeting Government's Need for Enterprise SearchSameer Kalbag of ConveraThe government market for enterprise search products has witnessed substantial growth over the past several years, a trend that is projected to continue well into 2005 and beyond. This increased demand for search solutions can be attributed to several major factors:Information overload: The ubiquity of digital communications, AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130436025163984662005-10-27T10:59:00.000-07:002005-10-27T11:00:25.213-07:00The Future of WorkRAND corporationhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG164.sum.pdfAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130435400725219782005-10-27T10:45:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:50:00.776-07:00Optimizing sales territorieshttp://www.empower.com/territory_management.htmAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130435087432579822005-10-27T10:41:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:44:47.493-07:00Managing Silos of Knowledge Within Government AgenciesMark L. Moerdler, Ph.D., of MDY Inc.Virtually every government agency has invested substantial capital and resources to implement specific systems for different departments to create and manage documents. This has historically been done for numerous reasons:Different departments have different needs, therefore best served with different AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130434855516437052005-10-27T10:35:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:40:55.576-07:00Challenges Facing the Public Sector An Infrastructure for 21st Century GovernmentCheryl McKinnon of Hummingbird Ltd.Governmental organizations worldwide are facing several challenges as administrative, executive and judicial bodies continue to evolve into an electronic work environment. Pushed by paperwork-reduction mandates, requirements to handle increased workloads with fewer personnel and theAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130434532317066222005-10-27T10:33:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:35:32.400-07:00Process Visibility: The Key to Optimizing Business OperationsLee Roberts of FileNetCorporationIt’s no mystery that businesses need to react to changing market conditions faster than ever. But how do you improve your current business operations while adapting to constantly changing market and customer needs? One of the keys to this effort is gaining an understanding of your organization’s businessAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130434175433937352005-10-27T10:27:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:29:35.490-07:00A Cure That May Cost Us OurselvesOne of the pioneers of human genetic engineering predicts that within 30 years, there will be a gene-based therapy for most diseases. But he fears the profound dangers of his own work.by Dr. W. French Anderson (Anderson is professor of biochemistry and pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine.) Jan 01 '00A revolution is sweeping medicine--only the fourth oneAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130434023893575872005-10-27T10:26:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:27:03.950-07:00The World on a StringPhysicist Brian Greene explains what may turn out to be a unifying theory of everything in the cosmosBrian Greene likes to think he's got it all figured out. Literally. And it all boils down to string. A Columbia University physics professor, Greene is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers on string theory, which purports to be the unifying theory of everything. AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130433746511526852005-10-27T10:19:00.000-07:002005-10-27T10:22:26.526-07:00Google Me Notby David Whelan Aug 16 '04Keeping confidential company data, or last weekend's cocktail party photos, away from search engines has become a growth business.Type the right words into Google and up comes a trove of files documenting an acrimonious divorce between two business executives in San Diego. Support payments are calculated based on a $450,000 income. The husband accuses the AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130108530536982242005-10-23T16:00:00.000-07:002005-10-23T16:02:10.536-07:00Google Alert Launches Personalized Auto-FilteringGoogle Alert is an extremely effective and well designed online service that allows you to track any topic, search or reference by leveraging a sophisticated query engine that taps Google for answers and automates this process so that it generates results on a daily basis. You can also control how often your searches are run. Google Alert provides AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130108289658197292005-10-23T15:56:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:58:09.660-07:00RSS NewsMastering - The Impact of Ten Years, Ten TrendsOn September 23, 2004 The Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future released its study "Ten Years, Ten Trends" outlining a decade of trends it's identified since it started studying online behavior."After a decade of observing the evolution of the Internet, and four years of our formal studies of online technology, we are seeing clear AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130107734092030972005-10-23T15:46:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:48:54.093-07:00Become A NewsGod - How To Be The First One To Know Everything About Anything.Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age.With the changing economics and dynamics of news publishing an avalanche of news content has started. Theoretically, without any technological support, you would need to spend more and more time and energy checking out all your news sources and searching for new content with AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130107102364663392005-10-23T15:30:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:39:36.386-07:00Search For Tomorrow We Wanted Answers, And Google Really Clicked. What's Next?By Joel AchenbachWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, February 15, 2004; Page D01In the beginning -- before Google -- a darkness was upon the land.We stumbled around in libraries. We lifted from the World Book Encyclopedia. We paged through the nearly microscopic listings in the heavy green volumes of the Readers' Guide AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130106602951493282005-10-23T15:28:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:30:02.956-07:00Future search efforts will make Google look like 8-tracksThere is no hotter topic in technology than Google. Cover of Newsweek. Cover of Wired. IPO fever.What's next? The Google Diet? The Five Googles You Meet in Heaven?But, you know, much as I couldn't live without it, Google stinks.Ten years from now — maybe five or even less — we will recall Google circa 2004 and wonder how we could have AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130106384203178662005-10-23T15:21:00.001-07:002005-10-23T15:26:24.203-07:00http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2156021AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130106097299192722005-10-23T15:21:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:21:37.300-07:00http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2005/08/21/2003268631AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130106066520853352005-10-23T15:19:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:21:06.520-07:00136 TERAFLOPS AND MORECurrently the world's fastest computer is a machine installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory late last year -- and still growing -- that has reached more than 136 trillion operations a second, or 100,000 times the speed of a fast desktop personal computer. IBM built the machine, Blue Gene/L, and plans to double its speed before the end of the year.AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130105862050366902005-10-23T15:15:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:17:42.050-07:00http://www.masternewmedia.org/search_tools_and_technologies.htmAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1130105565229243762005-10-23T15:09:00.000-07:002005-10-23T15:12:45.236-07:00The future of searchTechnologies of CooperationPosted by Jim_Downing at 03:59 PMThis Time article looks at the future of search engines."You land late in the evening in a city where you know nobody. You did not have time to book a hotel, your luggage has not turned up on the carousel -- and the plane's air conditioning gave you a sore throat. What to do?With your cell phone, you first Google yourAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129962911580496632005-10-21T23:35:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:37:03.703-07:00http://www.verdada.com/AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129962819531347882005-10-21T23:33:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:33:39.546-07:00August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic WebBy Paul FordA work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009.Please note that this story was written in 2002.It's hard to believe Google - which is now the world's largest single online marketplace - came on the scene only a little more than 8 years ago, back in the days when AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129962102620897662005-10-21T23:20:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:21:42.626-07:00What is the Future of Search?By Stephen TurcotteA clearer picture of the future of search is developing and, in case you were wondering, that’s great news for search engine marketers.At the March 2004 Search Engine Strategies conference in New York City, the Walter Cronkite of the search industry, Danny Sullivan, moderated an enlightening session dubbed “Roundtable: The Future of Search”. The AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129961801308706522005-10-21T23:16:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:16:41.306-07:00http://www.searchengineguide.com/AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129961715191424402005-10-21T23:11:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:18:31.290-07:00The Future of Search Engine TechnologyBy Andy Beal - January 28, 2004By now you have probably read numerous articles predicting "What will happen in 2004" or "Can MSN take on Google". While it is always worthwhile to look ahead and consider what may happen this year in the search engine industry, what about the things that we can't quite yet predict? Instead of looking at what will happen this AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129961433362580712005-10-21T23:07:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:10:33.366-07:00The Future of SearchAs the haystack gets bigger, we need better ways to find the needle.Alex Moskalyuk [ITFacts.biz] POSTED: 10.15.03 @16:14It's interesting how search suddenly got to be one of the hottest Internet businesses. David Krane from Google likes to tell a story of Larry and Sergey's visit to some major Internet players before settling on their own project. Back then the major sites AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129960811118848592005-10-21T22:58:00.000-07:002005-10-21T23:00:11.130-07:00AIS - Associative Indexing Service (Life-time archiving solution)"Don't delete, don't sort, don't search - group!"Open source. Also on http://sourceforge.net/projects/aisWHAT IS ITIndexing service is a program which allows the addition of keywords to locally or remotely stored resources (such as files, web resources, etc.) It's made for an ability to access information in the future in just one AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129958446040509702005-10-21T22:20:00.000-07:002005-10-21T22:20:46.046-07:00http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.htmlAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129957385136088952005-10-21T22:02:00.000-07:002005-10-21T22:03:05.143-07:00Quintura Search Quintura is a new search technology that will be ready for download in October. The company has called their approach to searching “The Way People Search”.The new search software promises to help users find information on the web easier and faster by defining the context or meaning of the search term.Quintura also uses dynamic clusterization that builds or changes clusters on the AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129954733492050662005-10-21T21:13:00.000-07:002005-10-21T21:18:53.496-07:00A GLIMPSE OF WHAT THE FUTURE OF SEARCH WILL BE LIKESEARCH AS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTVIVISIMOSolutionsA New Approach is RequiredMost enterprises recognize the strategic importance of connecting employees to the content they need, as it directly affects their costs, revenues, productivity, and even competitiveness. The amount of this "information capital" in organizations has grown at an astronomical AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129951921028366432005-10-21T20:23:00.000-07:002005-10-21T20:32:01.033-07:00Existing Features of 'Advances Search'LYCOSSearch - Web, People, Yellow Pages, Products, Images & Audio, Discussion, NewsBlock Offensive Content - Always, Sometimes, NeverLanguage - Limit results to a specific languagesURL/Site - Return results in specific domain (e.g. wired.com) or top-level domains (e.g. .gov). Multiple domains/sites may be specified, separated by a comma.Region - Limit resultsAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129954304427346362005-10-21T20:15:00.000-07:002005-10-21T21:11:44.433-07:00SEARCH ENGINES GALOREWhich Resource to Use for WhatSee: http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.htmlAlso: http://infopeople.org/search/and http://infopeople.org/search/chart.htmlIndividual Search EnginesGoogle (http://www.google.com)Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)MSN (http://www.msn.com)AskJeeves (http://www.askjeeves.com)Lycos (http://www.lycos.com)AltaVista (AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129477216189459262005-10-16T08:32:00.000-07:002005-10-16T08:40:16.193-07:00FREE AGENT NATIONJust got referred to the book 'Free Agent Nation'. Haven't read it yet, but seems to hint on the trend I mentioned towards the 'TEN BILLION STRONG ORGANIZATION'.25 million Americans were working free-lance according to the book, published in 2001. The figures could be higher now. Extrapolate that trend, and combine features like Micro-payments; Online Resumes, Reference Checks AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1129295554096976192005-10-14T06:06:00.000-07:002005-10-14T07:53:30.130-07:00THE IMPORTANCE OF SEARCH AND MATCHSearch and match seem to be the most important activities of humans. Solve this problem and you solve many of human issues.Here are some of the situations where you need to search and match. How to do it using technology is the problem. Search for patterns in nature, knowledge, (science, discovery, philosophy)Search for a suitable school, college or university (AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1127880314831953992005-09-27T21:02:00.000-07:002005-09-27T21:05:14.836-07:00This is pretty wacky! Worth seeinghttp://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/index.htmAlso reproduced at http://spaces.msn.com/members/petze/(non-interactive version)AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1119187466013111622005-06-19T06:22:00.000-07:002005-06-19T06:31:13.640-07:00Public Database To Capture User-Driven Search FilteringBy tekkie00, Mon Nov 15th, 2004 at 06:30:28 PM PSTSearch engines like Google, A9, and now MSN, will continue to advance techniques for indexing documents and improving underlying infrastructure (i.e. semantic web) to yield better and more relevant search results.But as of today, there is still tons of results that one has to sift through in AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1118028520223160362005-06-05T20:25:00.000-07:002005-06-05T20:28:40.233-07:00Why the poor stay poorBy Irfan HusainTHERE is nothing like a roaring log fire to promote reflection. As the rain pattered on a friend’s slate roof in the Welsh countryside a fortnight ago, the four of us opened our books and read, thankful to be indoors.But every so often, I gazed at the flickering patterns the flames made, and my thoughts wandered.Currently, there is much talk in Britain about AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116774932643412372005-05-22T08:09:00.000-07:002005-05-22T08:15:32.660-07:00Need to restructure tax system in budget-IIHUZAIMA BUKHARI AND DR. IKRAMUL HAQARTICLE (May 20 2005): Dr Aqdas Ali Kazmi, Joint Chief Economist, Planning Commission of Pakistan has stated in his research paper Tax Policy and Resource Mobilisation in Pakistan that 70 percent part of the economy consists of 36 percent "pure' black economy, 18 percent exempted economy, 9 percent illegal economy, 4.5 AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116433182768331912005-05-18T11:15:00.000-07:002005-05-18T09:19:42.780-07:00The See-It-All ChipRadio-frequency identification — with track-everything-anywhere capability, all the time — is about to change your lifeBy CATHY BOOTH-THOMASSep. 22, 2003http://www.time.com/time/globalbusiness/article/0,9171,1101030922-485764,00.htmlIn Arizona a busy mom with kids charges fast food to her American Express by flashing a key fob in front of a plastic box. In London the same AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116429346865692762005-05-18T11:09:00.000-07:002005-05-18T08:15:46.873-07:00Just to show that all sorts of services are aready being traded over the Internet.England's EBay for Sex By Jason Walshhttp://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66800,00.html02:00 AM Mar. 07, 2005 PTJust as myriad swingers sites allow soccer moms to commit adultery and married men to cheat with impunity, a new British website is helping people to become part-time prostitutes.Across Britain and AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116427504935995822005-05-18T10:38:00.000-07:002005-05-18T07:45:04.946-07:00If the world was run like eBay By Jonathan Duffy BBC News MagazineThe launch of an eBay-style banking website this week, where users lend to and borrow from each other, is the latest step in what is being seen as a quiet consumer revolution.Strip away the peripherals from eBay, those layers of functionality that help its millions of loyal users navigate around the site, and what are you left withAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116383603123865012005-05-17T18:54:00.000-07:002005-05-17T19:33:23.130-07:00Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nationsfrom Amazon.comIn 1906, Francis Galton, known for his work on statistics and heredity, came across a weight-judging contest at the West of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition. This encounter was to challenge the foundations of his life's study.AnAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116343926605932992005-05-17T11:08:00.000-07:002005-05-17T08:32:06.610-07:00THE 10 BILLION PERSON ORGANIZATIONWhy are large organizations created? And why are organizations sometimes split up? What processes should be kept within an organization and what should be bought from others?The 'Make or Buy' debate has been going on in management circles since a very long time. Different theories have been put forth for the creation and growth of organizations. Basically, it a AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116342324091910382005-05-17T10:14:00.000-07:002005-05-17T08:05:24.096-07:00Bland, unfounded, unhelpful concepts #1: Knowledge Economyfrom http://econdevuk.blogspot.com/Knowledge Economy makes Angry Economist angrier!...In my career to date, one of the most perplexing and at times bizarre phenomenons has been the rise of the "Knowledge Economy". From a piece of analysis, basically looking at SKILLS and COMPETENCIES and TACIT KNOWLEGE and how these were increasing in AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116339044254882222005-05-17T10:05:00.000-07:002005-05-17T07:10:44.260-07:00Tool for ThoughtBy STEVEN JOHNSONPublished: January 30, 2005 in The New York TimesOne often hears from younger writers that they can't imagine how anyone managed to compose an article, much less an entire book, with a typewriter. Kerouac banging away at his Underwood portable? Hemingway perched over his Remington? They might as well be monastic scribes or cave painters.But if the modern word AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116338411553930002005-05-17T09:47:00.000-07:002005-05-17T11:21:48.470-07:00PodcastingWe know more than we can say, and we will say more than we can write down. This aphorism might be one of the reasons why podcasting is taking off. Now anyone can create their own radio programme and make it available on the web.AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116337663170408342005-05-17T09:32:00.000-07:002005-05-17T06:47:43.173-07:00"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writerAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116336762616808392005-05-17T09:27:00.000-07:002005-05-17T06:32:42.623-07:00Communication factors and future organizational structure(from Fortune magazine)Get ready to choose your own boss. MIT visionary Tom Malone sees big changes coming to the workplace. Malone sees a parallel between the evolution of human society and the evolution of business. "For millenia," he says, "all human societies were organized as small, autonomous, egalitarian groups called bands. Then we AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116266853399623012005-05-16T12:06:00.000-07:002005-05-16T11:09:24.156-07:00MICRO - JOBSHave a few spare hours? Want to indulge in a part-time hobby or interest and still be paid for it? Want to sell your skills and experience online to some remote country? Micro-jobs will help. You don't have to leave your regular job or quit school. You just post your availability and the skills you offer and get matched with people who want these. You could negotiate, and strike a AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116256205946943492005-05-16T11:10:00.000-07:002005-05-16T08:10:05.953-07:00ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENTComing from a country that is still struggling to develop, I have seen the effects of underdevelopment, poverty and disease at close hand. I have often thought of how to help such countries and to bring them up to the standards of living taken for granted in the developed world.I believe that with today's technology and knowledge management techniques, acceleration of AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116266747435053442005-05-16T10:05:00.000-07:002005-05-16T11:05:47.440-07:00SEARCH AND MATCHAs mentioned in an earlier post, there are vast amounts of resources going wasted (almost criminally).On the other hand, there is an infinite sea of human wants, needs and desires going unfulfilled.How can these be matched?I would like to develop a sofware (web-based, but also available on cellphones), to match available, surplus, and idle resources with potential buyers.There areAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116262650414700152005-05-16T09:27:00.000-07:002005-05-16T10:02:26.426-07:00THE TRAGEDY OF UNDERUTILIZED RESOURCESIt always amazes me when I think of the vast amount of resources in the world that are going waste for want of proper use:Trained, knowledgeable and experienced people sitting unemployed or underemployedExpensive machines lying idle in factories or warehouses for want of work orders Buildings used only part of the day; office buildings, schools and libraries AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116258889040161262005-05-16T08:11:00.000-07:002005-05-16T08:54:49.046-07:00THE KNOWLEDGE ENGINEThe big problem with the Internet now is how to get specific, relevant information without drowning in a sea of data. Most present day search engines merely present you with a list of web-pages based on key-words. As a result, each search turns up thousands, if not millions of pages, many of which are totally irrelevant. There are some new engines which have started to addressAThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-1116254183459540032005-05-16T07:29:00.000-07:002005-05-16T07:36:23.460-07:00Ideas explored in this blog include:How to accelerate economic development so that the gap between underdeveloped and developed nations is quickly eliminatedHow underdeveloped nations can leapfrog over some phases of development to quickly enter the information ageHow to harness the power of technology to improve human well-beingHow human knowledge can be efficiently managed, disseminated, AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202676.post-913407522003-03-25T04:17:00.000-08:002005-05-16T10:03:44.026-07:00THE FUTURE WILL BE WHAT WE MAKE ITWhat will happen five, ten, fifteen or more years in the future? Will mankind learn to harness the powers of his mind, manage all his resources of knowledge and creativity and create a better and more wonderful world? Will mankind use faster and better computer systems to solve the problems we are facing today? Will we be able to develop artificial intelligence, AThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13147490262617123331noreply@blogger.com