All in technology
John Tropea has posted some thoughts on more advanced mechanisms to get recommendations, based on what you read and write. My best recommendation engine is the people I am already reading, can recommendation engines take advantage of that?
Thomas Vander Wal has a nice essay, describing his views of his Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud, The Come To Me Web. His view is that we are moving from a place where "I go get" what I want to a situation where what I want "comes to me."
I was at a talk recently in which the speaker mentioned that humans process a given idea for 6-7 seconds before moving onto the next idea.
The next generation of aggregators are going to have a lot of interesting features, whether they are the ones I want or not. In reading John Tropea's "Authority in your RSS readers," I realized that the aggregator needs to extend beyond the box of a single tool.
I attended an demonstration of Tidebreak's TeamSpot collaboration software yesterday as part of my adjunct appointment at Northwestern. It's an interesting product for co-located group work.
The McKinsey Quarterly has Ten trends to watch in 2006 by Ian Davis and Elizabeth Stephenson, which are really trends to watch over the next decade. Several of these ring for me.
Fellow Corante Web Hub contributor, Matthew Hurst wants Consumer Facing Text Mining Opportunities. He wants text mining for non-commercial customers that actually provides some value to the user.
I stumbled upon Eric Tsui's 2002 technology survey, "Technologies for Personal and Peer to Peer Knowledge Management," when writing my earlier article on PIM. I do not recall having read Eric Tsui in the past, but many of his ideas about knowledge management and the emphasis on personal vs. corporation are strongly connected to how I have thought of KM.
I was in a conversation earlier today, where we talked about the familiar rating tools that you find in Amazon and frequently on internal website ("rate this article"). There are some big differences in rating services on a public website, like Amazon, and internal websites.
Steve Borche of Connecting the Dots has an idea for "smart aggregators." This is something I've been looking for as well for some of the same reasons, primarily information overload.
I've been "attending" the CPSquare Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice online conference for the last week or so, and it has resulted in a number of interesting conversations. It's also inspired some personal realization as well.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Intellext are making their search-in-the-background tool, Watson, available for free. I used it for a while last year, and I just tested it again as I wrote that long post on the collection of PIM articles in CACM.
The latest Communications of the ACM has a great set of articles on Personal Information Management. I provide a rather detailed review of the collection, as the topic interests me greatly.
The December 2005 Mindjet Insider Newsletter focuses on the topic of "Tapping into Corporate Knowledge." In all their examples, the use of the mind map goes beyond the single-user to the collective.
I'll be paying attention to other things (family) for the next couple of weeks, and have programmed a couple future blog entries to make it seem like something is happening here. I will start the break with a bunch of questions that have bugged me and I can't quite figure out where and how to ask about Outlook and other tech.
Watson by Intellext is now available in a free "personal" version. Watson conducts a search for you in the background, based on what you are currently writing or researching.
Glenn Fannick of Factiva was the featured speaker at the KM Chicago meeting this past Tuesday with a topic of "Using Text mining and Visualization to Make Sense of Content Chaos." He covered the motivation behind advanced text mining, as well as some of the new technologies.
Here are some thoughts about the Trimergent software, based on a discussion and demonstration with Ashwani Sirohi. They combine searching and sharing in an interesting way
I don't know that I am the best person for prognosticating, but my colleagues at the Corante Web Hub are doing predictions together, and I figure I should join them. These are going to be a little different, as I don't think of myself as a pure "technology guy," though I sure have fun with it.
I've been using the mind mapping tool MindManager for a little under a year, but in that time I have used it in a variety of ways. Most recently, I used it to help design and run a workshop.