- All 10 Android Developer Challenge winners use GPS http://tinyurl.com/5o4k8h #
- Is Microsoft missing the boat on mobile? http://tinyurl.com/6y5zt3 #
- TC50 finalists http://tinyurl.com/6khm8o #
- TechCrunch50 live stream http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/ #
- TC50 Flickr stream http://tinyurl.com/5zmprw #
- Stop rationalizing and make hard decisions http://tinyurl.com/69ntm5 #
- Picasa 3 beta at long last http://tinyurl.com/6h6y7p #
- Google Chrome browser for Web workers http://tinyurl.com/6xfj8e #
- John McCain can win http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122031196249888759.html #
- From the WSJ McCain piece: “The man is a patriot. Grasp that and you have grasped John McCain.” #
- WSJ: “Mr. Obama may be able to offer…high rhetoric, but Mr. McCain can offer something else: an uncomplicated love of country.” #
- Chrome + Gears = Platform? http://tinyurl.com/6224a6 #
You may have noticed SynthesysSDK.com.
This begets the obvious question: What is the Synthesys Platform?
The short answer: Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc. ‘s Synthesys Platform provides the first true Software Development Kit (SDK) and server platform for Unstructured Data Analytics (UDA).
The slightly longer answer: The Synthesys Platform helps you find unexpected, critical knowledge hidden in your data. Synthesys takes unstructured text as input, uses entity extraction with strong semantic relationship analysis to operate on the input, and then outputs abstracted knowledge objects. You can then use these objects (people, places, connections, etc.) to understand and analyze what’s important.
For an in depth answer and to speak to us about possibly joining our limited beta, please contact us via the form on SynthesysSDK.com.
You can also attend one of our upcoming events or tech talks, for example my “Hacking the Meaning in Human Communication” presentation at the upcoming Tulsa TechFest in early October.
Watch for much more information on the Synthesys Platform on this blog and blog.digitalreasoning.com in the weeks to come.
- iTunes App Store trends and stats http://tinyurl.com/66gd3a #
Tulsa TechFest is returning for its third year, and I’ve been asked to speak.
My talk on “Hacking the Meaning in Human Communication” is a part of the Java track, though it contains REST Web programming as well as Java API info and examples.
What is TechFest? In the words of the organizers:
- TechFest is a technical conference with currently the broadest topics in the United States, maybe the world. Covering everything enterprise architecture, software/web development, databases, project management, data security and this year for the first time – graphic/web design.
- It’s primary focus is to provide training/teaching sessions that are immediately benefical to the broadest range of IT professionals in their day-to-day jobs. Over 60 national/international speakers and 90 to 120 75 minute sessions.
- A charitable non-profit event organized by Tulsa area volunteers.
- In 2006, it started as a one day event on Saturday, October 14th, 2006, attracting over 360+ attendees.
- In 2007, we listened to everyone’s feedback and had phenominal success with over 660+ attendees on Friday, October 19th, 2007, and over 460+ on Saturday, October 20th, 2007.
- Since our first event, many other communities have been following our example by hosting their own TechFest events: VancouverTechFest, HoustonTechFest, DallasTechFest, AlbertaTechFest and IndyTechFest.
Information on speakers, agenda, etc. is being updated now on the Tulsa TechFest 2008 site. You can also follow Tulsa TechFest on Twitter for updates.
More to come as we approach October. And if you’re in the region, please do plan to attend. Hope to see you there!
- Senator McCain is coming to play, and thank God for it! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121935481067161515.html #
Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.0.2.
During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release:
iPhone 2.0.2 Software Update
This version of the software includes the following improvements and supersedes all previous versions.
• Bug fixes
For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the users guide for your iPhone at:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphoneFor more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphoneTo troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphoneFor information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
- “10 Helpings of Dojo Goodness” from my friend Matthew Russell http://tinyurl.com/5afwj9 #
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