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Technology Services Pro in Phoenix Seeks to Better Serve Local Clients by … – PR.com (press release)
Feb 3rd
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Technology Services Pro in Phoenix Seeks to Better Serve Local Clients by …
PR.com (press release) With the assistance of Prospect Genius's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) program, Metro Computer Networks is more visible and accessible for clients who search online for anything from computer repairs to IT consultants. Jason Alford, owner of Metro … |
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Technology Services Pro in Phoenix Seeks to Better Serve Local Clients by … – openPR (press release)
Feb 1st
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Technology Services Pro in Phoenix Seeks to Better Serve Local Clients by …
openPR (press release) With the assistance of Prospect Genius's Search Engine Optimization (SEO) program, Metro Computer Networks is more visible and accessible for clients who search online for anything from computer repairs to IT consultants. Jason Alford, owner of Metro … |
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Australian Technology Company Oracle Digital Releases New Corporate SEO Packages – Connectus.net (press release)
Jan 31st
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Australian Technology Company Oracle Digital Releases New Corporate SEO Packages
Connectus.net (press release) Perth SEO Company Oracle Digital have just announced the release of their new ecommerce and corporate search engine optimisation (SEO) packages, that are especially designed to cater for broad keywords and exposure that these companies desperately need … |
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Yandex Adds Face Recognition Technology
Jan 26th
Russian search giant Yandex has added facial recognition technology to its photo hosting service, Yandex.Fotki. Yandex is leveraging Face.com’s facial recognition technology to create a “smart” photo tagging service that lets users tag other people.
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Australian Technology Company Oracle Digital Releases New Corporate SEO Packages – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jan 25th
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Australian Technology Company Oracle Digital Releases New Corporate SEO Packages
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Perth SEO Company Oracle Digital have just announced the release of their new ecommerce and corporate search engine optimisation (SEO) packages, that are especially designed to cater for broad keywords and exposure that these companies desperately need … Ecommerce SEO Advice Roundup |
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Perth Technology Company Announces New On Page SEO Product To Assist … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jan 14th
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Perth Technology Company Announces New On Page SEO Product To Assist …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Perth SEO Company Oracle Digital have today announced the release of their improved on page SEO product, designed to assist businesses with an online presence achieve better search rankings. SEO Perth – Oracle Digital have today released their new on … |
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Perth Technology Company Announces New On Page SEO Product To Assist … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 14th
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Perth Technology Company Announces New On Page SEO Product To Assist …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) SEO Perth – Oracle Digital have today released their new on page SEO product, and it is aimed to help those businesses with an online portal whom need assistance in increasing their search results in Google. On page SEO (search engine optimisation) is … Western Australian SEO Company Announces New Blogging and Syndication … |
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Google Obtains IBM Technology for Assessing Social Users’ Interests
Jan 5th
Among a handful of patents transferred last December 31 from IBM’s portfolio to that of Google, as first discovered by Bill Slawski of SEO By the Sea, is a system for processing text compiled by users of social networks, and ascertaining their common interests. We’ve already seen the rise of tools such as Radian6 for ascertaining social net users’ individual interests; this new technology, which received a U.S. patent only one year ago, would judge what concepts they share with one another.
The goal of this technology, as IBM originally stated, is to literally to filter out irrelevant links to articles that may not pertain to users’ search intentions. What we don’t know yet is whether Google intends to use this technology, or simply keep others from using it first.
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“Many Internet users make frequent searches for information, such as product reviews, hotels and travel destinations, and the like, as well as for on-line services such as shopping sites. Such Internet users are typically inundated with meaningless results for each on-line search,” states the Background paragraph for U.S. Patent #7,865,592, entitled, “Using Semantic Networks to Develop a Social Network.” “Search engines have made searching easier, but a user often needs to sort through irrelevant results and irrelevant Web pages before finding a desired piece of information or a desired shopping site. Thus, even with all of the access to information that an Internet user has at his/her disposal today, many users elect to asking for advice from a friend or acquaintance before beginning a search. However, an Internet user might not know who to turn to for information about a specific subject.”
To understand the patent, you have to think of a “social network” not in terms of a site or a service or a company, like Google+ or Facebook, but rather as a mathematical construct that’s on the same order of a “semantic network.” It’s through semantic networks that Google assesses the context to which search terms belong. An article may appear to relate to the search criteria because it contains multiple instances of the search terms. But a semantic network analyzes the common context of terms in the criteria and the documents being searched, to see if there’s a more solid bond of relationship than mere pattern matching.
The “social network” that IBM engineers were working toward is also a mathematical construct – specifically, an arrangement of related people whose posts to social networks include concepts that may belong to the same semantic network. The flowcharts excerpted here from the IBM patent (now Google’s) present a rough order of events in which social links are established between users whose semantic networks have assessed similarities.
Although the patent doesn’t say so as directly as the intentions outlined in its Background paragraph, the idea here is to do a kind of “StackOverflow.com-like” operation in advance, if you will: Find a user within a social scenario who may have already answered the question, rate that answer according to its assessed relevance, and present it as a solution to the search.
Google has already stated that it is leveraging data from Google+ users to present potentially more relevant search results for Google+ users than it would for Google search users not logged into Google+. If Google were to put this former IBM patent to use, it could convert the search process for Google+ users into a more conversational system – into a kind of dialog where people’s existing answers respond to questions that come up in the future.
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Technology in Real Life: In Praise of the “C” Word
Dec 25th
You should write more what you feel, I’ve been told. Be more open about yourself, Scott. If you want to engage people, to build a community, to get people talking in comments, and bring more people into your social circle, you need to be more open, more accessible, more of a personality. Show people your soft side, your heart. What do you really believe, Scott M. Fulton, III, besides your insistence on using Roman numerals in your name? You talk about issues that have six or seven sides to them, but you don’t tell people where you stand. How do you expect people to engage with you if you don’t engage with them?
Well, okay, if you insist. I am a Christian.
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The first chance you get, you go there?
This is the most personally identifiable information in our portfolio that we don’t often share with one another, the part that some people say defines who they are, the part that classifies what it is we believe. To be fair, religion is the most divisive issue of our time. So perhaps the reason we tend to withdraw that element of ourselves from the public discourse is for fear that we may alienate ourselves from the rest of the world. We do want to be mindful of others’ feelings.
Another reason is because religion unto itself is too often cast as something foreign to rational thinking, as something antiquated, outmoded, unrelated to a society geared more towards technology, science, and the realm of evident fact. In a world of cause and effect, some say, there should be an inviolable bond between what we observe and what we know. If we have not observed it, Carl Sagan once explained, we should not claim to know it.
Put another way, all faith is silly. During NPR’s eulogy last week for the outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens, the point was made that he could not be forced to believe in anything supernatural. The idea that everything can be made explicable, that it can be translated into something our minds can accept as rational, and that nothing supernatural exists, has become an ideal claimed by individuals who disclaim the existence of God – who say that fact denies faith.
This is the fundamental class division from which the whole discussion of reality tends to break down. It may be the entire reason so many of us refrain from wearing our religion on our sleeves. The thought of accepting something as real that we cannot explain, seems about as sane, sober, and rational as clapping to show you believe in fairies and making Tinker-bell glow.
And yet this is the fallacy about faith that I’m afraid Hitchens never came to realize as a fallacy: that faith is contrary to knowledge. Or, borrowing Douglas Adams’ beautiful treatise from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, if proof denies faith, then soon God disappears in a puff of logic. I have absolute faith that everything Christ has demonstrated, including what that does not appear to lend itself to an absolute cause, can, and eventually will, be explained in a manner that renders it undeniably natural. I too do not believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the unknown, but not the unknowable.
Well then, say some of my friends, you’re not really a Christian. My response to that is a little roundabout, so I beg your indulgence.
Faith is the new proof
Earlier this month, researchers at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland announced their progress toward the discovery, and eventual confirmation, of the existence of a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson – and which Web headlines characterize as the “God Particle.” Folks have lost track of how it got that nickname in the first place. The boson is the category of subatomic matter to which the photon (light) also belongs; and the idea that a boson of some sort exists with the properties of the theoretical Higgs (H0) was theorized before anyone came up with a theory for why it might exist in the first place. This was because the characteristics of particles that have been observed (or, more accurately, whose side-effects validate that only certain particles with these expected characteristics could be the cause) could be arranged on a chart with certain perfect symmetries. H0 would fit on this chart in a way that completes the symmetry.
The demonstrations revealed figures that were generally consistent with what scientists were expecting – evidence of interactions that could be attributed to the presence of H0, though possibly to something else. I watched this feed from CERN while keeping one eye on a running feed of tweets from observers. Many of these folks were shocked, and a few even openly disgusted, with the idea that researchers could appear so excited about the evidence they uncovered, while being unable to conclusively announce that H0 had been observed. What were these people smoking, one tweeter asked? How could anyone be so excited by mere side-effects in the absence of facts?
The answer, for me, is simple. The evolution of science has come full circle. Only to a very limited extent is it possible to state with scientific certainty that something exists or does not exist. Ever since quantum theory, and especially the contribution of Werner Heisenberg, we are only capable of making certain statements in terms of probability. And with respect to the causes of those things which are only probable rather than factual, we can only render as speculation.
And that speculation seems fanciful, whimsical, often bizarre. The Higgs boson theory speaks of an exclusive level of interaction between things that are neither particles nor waves, but whose by-products are mass, which we then attribute to things through a process that was once considered absolute association, but which may in reality be coincidence. No single explanation of what might be going on appears, on the surface, to sound anything less than supernatural.
Yet we know this cannot be truth – that at some level, at some eventual state we may inevitably discover, everything we see now can and will be explained. Science has come around, absorbing as an active ingredient that which some still claim to be a foreign object: Science has embraced faith.
Faith is the understanding that we can know what we cannot yet explain. And since physics will always be vital to how we empower our future generations, we will need to incorporate faith for us to incorporate what we perceive, without the words to define it yet, as knowledge. Faith takes many paths. But all paths have a common symmetry, something that gives them variety and yet leads them to the same point. While faith may be the thing that appears to divide us, it may yet bridge the gaps between us. And while there may never be a common starting point toward faith, I believe Christ has taught us that any starting point one chooses may lead to that greater goal.
My starting point begins like this: I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. And like every other train of thought I get lost on, it goes on forever and ever.
Painting: “Kingdom of Christ” by Maria DeLaJuen, approx. 1986
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India Demands Technology Companies Censor “Offensive” Material
Dec 6th
India, which has over 100 million active internet users and is the third largest country in terms of internet activity, wants certain types of content screened by technology companies. The India Telecommunications Minister, Kapil Sibal, held a press conference in New Delhi criticizing Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other large internet companies. He said that [...]
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