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Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, ac (Read More)
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Sometimes, it feels like terms we thought had some meaning really don't apply as much anymore.Take the term "social media," as an example.It's like every SEO marketer decided that "social media," was the ticket to a sweet con (Read More)
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After years of waiting, FeedBurner users can finally see their stats in Google Analytics. Google acquired FeedBurner in 2007. Since then, there has been a lot of grumbling about how Google handled the transition and the lack (Read More)
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With Google's Social Search experiment, Bing's integration with Twitter and Yahoo!'s partnership with One Riot, social search clearly has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us (Read More)
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I've been scanning the headlines this week for news on Informatica 9, the company's new-and-improved data integration platform. At last count there were over 60 news items on the topic, so my goal here today is to hit the hig (Read More)
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Google just announced that it now uses public data from the World Bank to display graphs for queries like "children per woman in brazil" or "internet users in the united states." To do so, Google makes uses of the World Bank' (Read More)
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Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing. Instead, Bing only relies on Alpha to answer queries about nutrition. A query for (Read More)
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Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their work in virtual environments.In add (Read More)
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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu's latest plans to make money, investigate use case (Read More)
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Today, Facebook has published a developer roadmap outlinining upcoming relevant changes and a rough timeline for each.Changes include developer access to user emails, more prominent app displays on user profiles, all-new home (Read More)
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At the IBM Information on Demand conference, we asked Robert Ashe to sketch how he sees integration between the company's business intelligence and collaboration technologies. What he shows is how business intelligence applic (Read More)
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Salesforce.com and Adobe have entered a partnership that allows developers to create rich Internet and desktop applications in the cloud. The partnership is just one more example of how an ecosystem is developing between Soft (Read More)
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Web search, real-time search and social search. That's a pretty compelling combination and it's what both Google and Facebook both put on the table today in a head-to-head competiton. Google's Marrissa Meyer did a short, su (Read More)
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Is today's news of major search engines' integration of Twitter posts in search results the herald of a mass extinction or a mass acquisition?According to tonight's conversations with key players in the space, the day's event (Read More)
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In the immediate wake of the announcement of Bing's indexing Twitter updates, Google has announced it will be doing the same.Taking the wind out of the sails of many a real-time search engine, Google's and Microsoft's announc (Read More)
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Microsoft has just announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that its search engine Bing now includes Twitter search results. Facebook messages posted by people with public profiles will roll out next, at a date to be determined. Twi (Read More)
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A little over a year ago, I interviewed Jitterbit's CTO, Ilan Sehayek. The open source data integration company was just over two years old and already in numerous midsized organizations. But Jitterbit had its eyes set on (Read More)
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In business development and sales, much of your success is based upon who you know. Nevertheless, the problem with most tools is that only a portion of your acquaintances are considered useful contacts. Meanwhile, unconventio (Read More)
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Master data management projects are no small undertaking, and there's a lot at stake. So, I suspect consultant Ralph Kimball will be speaking to a full virtual house during the free Web seminar he's giving on the topic of sta (Read More)