Breakfast Links 06.01.2009

* Channel Intelligence Case Study: Amazon Web Services

Interesting case study about how Channel Intelligence uses a semi-automatic way to categorize masses of images and product data. CI uses Amazaon’s Mechanical Turk – an online marketplace for human workforce – to support their automated categorization system.

* Sky Grid: Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Challenger

A quick capture of Sky Grid (US company) from Beyond Search, especially regarding its Business Model and opportunities. This is actually a kind of software I built a couple years ago for different companies (10.000+) over here in germany!

* Nutch 1.0 in 1-2 weeks?

Just read a message from Dennis Kubes on the Nutch Mailing-List regarding the release of Nutch 1.0! The Jira link is also pretty interesting about the upcoming features…

Breakfast Links 22.10.2008

* In Search of Answers: Enterprise Search and the High-Performance Business

Accenture just released an article on Enterprise Search and defines it as it is, as also what is coming in future like multimedia search capabilities and sentiment analysis.

* Classifying Images Part 2: Basic Attributes

As Accenture already defined multimedia search capabilities of being one big thing in the future, Synaptica Central released Part 2 of an article series on classifying images. In this article, Ian Davis describes which image metadata is going to be used for background information (creator name, image series, location) on a certain image.

P.S.: Alex just told me he had enough of the good ol’ english breakfast, will try to provide more variety on those images now!