There was quite some media coverage on ‘Aardvark‘ last few days.
Aardvark (previously known as ‘Mechanical Zoo’) is a social search service developed by some ex-Googlers. Concept is simple though ingenious. Essentially, when a user sends a question to Aardvark (via email or instant message), the service analyzes the question and categorizes it, then distributes the [...]
This week Datanews stated that Dell has 50 (five zero!) employees who full time monitor blogs and other online social media.
Digging a bit into the subject, I ended up in the domain of ORM or ‘Online Reputation Management’ and SERM ’Search Engine Reputation Management’ and the growing importance for entreprises investing in this. Just to give an idea on the [...]
I got pretty frustrated a few days ago when a Spanish speaking guy who was trying to find his way around in the Brussels North Train Station, adressed me for help. His English was worse then my Swedish and although I once used to manage quite ok in the beautiful Spanish language, I couldn’t really [...]
For quite a while already now, I’m following a product / solution called ‘Tikitag’ recently renamed to ‘Touchatag’.
Using RFID technology ‘Touchatag’ provides consumers, businesses and third party application providers an unique service to link items of the ‘real world’ with online applications and information sources. It opens up new and richer experiences in a variety of areas: information retrieval, entertainment, [...]