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Another Video Search Engine from Exalead

Hannes Carl Meyer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Breakfast Links 03.11.2008

The parisian search engine company Exalead released their video search engine voxalead. It combines Exalead’s indexing (Entity Recognition) and search technology with third partie’s Voice recognition (LIMSI). Currently they indexed mostly french and us channels and a small amount of german channels. Beside the search through the voice-to-text extracted contents you can also view the original extracted text which shows off the quality of voxalead!

* Metager at Alt Search Engines

Metager now has its place at AltSearchEngines.com in english and german!

* Mahout: Twenty Newsgroups Classification

This weekend I stumbled upon a nice Mahout Classification example. It is all about creating a classification model based on twenty clusters of newsgroup messages. All you need is Mahout and Hadoop to get the example running in approx. 20 minutes.

BarCamp Berlin 3 Take-Aways

Hannes Carl Meyer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:59:48 +0000

Events like the BarCamp last weekend are always nice to get in touch with new people and learn a lot of things. Since the BarCamp wasn’t dedicated to a certain topic there was also a variety of people from different branches and I was excited wether I could get any information of my favorite topic (Information Management). Here are my take-aways, meaning interesting stuff I stumbled upon:

Yovisto (source: just from talking to someone)
Yovisto is an academic video search engine to search through educational video content mostly from universities. Beside just searching through video’s metadata, Yovisto is also able to connect presentation slides from presentations to the according video record.

QUEAP (source: session on sunday)
Queap is a web search engine which is currently in development. With it’s preprocessing approach Queap has the ability to categorize websites by using some kind of “artificial intelligence”. There is no beta yet, I’m still waiting for a demo to really test it! A brief presentation is available here.

Directed Edge (source: session on saturday)
Scott Wheeler held a presentation about collaborative filtering at the BarCamp on saturday (together with a representative from be2). He is the Co-Founder of Directed Edge, which is a company that aims to the “niche” of recommendation engines. A demo of their recommendation engine can be found here.

Dublin Core 2008 Presentations

Hannes Carl Meyer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:49:19 +0000

Breakfast Links 24.09.2008

* Truveo says it’s the most comprehensive video search provider (in terms of coverage), read more about it on Searchengingeland

* Dublin Core 2008 started on monday in Berlin, you can already access presentations slides here

* IBM to quit technology standards?

Wordpress Semantic Blog-Post Plugin

Hannes Carl Meyer — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:45:26 +0000

Breakfast Links 23.09.2008

* Calais (a Thomson Reuters initiative) provides a semantic blog-post plugin for Wordpress

* A short VideoSurf review from Beyond Search

Your Invitation to VideoSurf’s Beta

Hannes Carl Meyer — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:06:27 +0000

I just got my invitation to register at VideoSurf, I’m really excited since I read the article on Searchengineland! You will here my comment on that in the next days… have a nice weekend.

New Video Search Engine: VideoSurf

Hannes Carl Meyer — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:15:00 +0000

Breakfast Links 11.09.2008

New Video Search Engine: VideoSurf (I’m still waiting for my invitation, can anybody help?)
http://searchengineland.com/080910-050000.php

Cascading tries to simplify building Hadoop MapReduce Applications
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50629

Free Application Servers tested: Tomcat vs. Geronimo vs. JBoss vs. GlassFish (german)
http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/software_infrastruktur/1873146/