http://blog.likematter.com Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:11:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been working for some time with python-calais, a Python wrapper for the Calais Semantic Text Annotation Service led by Jordan Dimov.  For Likematter, we extended its native support for Calais' JSON response type to include support for Calais' RDF output.  Several people expressed interest in using rdflib with Calais ... http://blog.likematter.com/2009/04/16/extending-the-python-wrapper-for-calais-to-support-rdf/ A recent blog post, Bijan Sabet's "Purposefully Constrained", points out the importance of "simple is better" in achieving successes like Twitter and Google.  Reading it reminded me of a  book called "Gut Feelings" by Gerd Gigerenzer that has been influential in the development of the personalization engine for Likematter.  ... http://blog.likematter.com/2009/04/09/recommendation-engine-based-on-gut-feelings/ A new release of Likematter is available now.  The most common suggestions we've gotten from users to this point and the steps taken in this release to respond to them: 1. I want more understanding and control of how new content is matched to the things I like. The most noticeable ... http://blog.likematter.com/2009/04/01/new-features-concept-clouds-highlighting-for-better-control-and-understanding/ I'm pleased to announce that the Likematter alpha is now available for open registration.  Likematter is a personal lens for the web.  It helps you stay on top of emerging content like breaking news and career opportunities.  In doing so, you automatically build a profile of your interests ... http://blog.likematter.com/2009/03/11/find-breaking-news-and-jobs-with-likematter/ Welcome to the new JobGravy Blog! JobGravy is a new internet career service startup based in part on the technology and business efforts of Alluvial Labs, which (along with the original Alluvial Labs Blog) will be a part of JobGravy moving forward.  We are working on technology that will allow people ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/10/17/introducing-jobgravy/ Paul Harrison of Carve Consulting was good enough to interview me regarding the forthcoming JobGravy service at the OnRec Expo earlier this month in Chicago: Paul alludes to comments made by Gautam Godhwani of Simply Hired.  Gautam pointed out that the reason search engines like Google occupy such an important commercial ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/09/26/paul-harrison-inquires-about-jobgravy-at-onrec-in-chicago/ Six months ago we published a breakdown of the technologies occurring in several thousand tech job listings. We recently re-ran the experiment, once again using the Calais natural language processing engine. Last time around, we noted a shortcoming of Calais against this kind of data: it failed ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/09/09/calais-on-jobs-data-part-2/ Today's 2008 Text Analytics Summit involved several good sessions on the analysis of social media data.  In keeping with the event's enterprise software focus, these discussions emphasized the challenges organizations face in mining social media data to accomplish marketing objectives, creating and improving customer relationships being primary among them. Matthew Hurst ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/06/17/social-media-coverage-at-text-analytics-summit/   Photo: Google App Engine discussion - ShimonRura, Brian Olson, James Hall, et al Note: The following account of BarCamp Boston benefits from the additional time for reflection and inevitable blurring of facts afforded by the week's vacation that immediately followed it. BarCamp Boston is an annual gathering of Boston-area technology people, part ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/05/28/barcamp-boston/ This morning's Social Media Breakfast in at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge included a speaker's panel focused on hiring and getting hired using social media. The speakers included: Stever Robbins, consultant/executive coach and host of the Get-It-Done Guy Podcast Aaron Strout, VP of new media at Mzinga. Todd Defren, principal ... http://blog.likematter.com/2008/05/01/boston-social-media-breakfast-covers-getting-hired-in-a-20-world/