Are you a small business person or Internet wannabe searcher? Here\’s a daily update to maintain your current awareness in information retrieval, information extraction, bots, knowledge discovery and harvesting, data and Web mining, artificial intelligence, and general research and search sources on the Internet.
The Blogosphere in 2004 -BlogPulse 2004 - What do George Bush, singing llamas, comedian Jon Stewart and a blog called Boing Boing have in common? They were some of the most discussed people, features and trends in the blogging world in 2004. And today, Intelliseek’s BlogPulse.com web site features an entirely new section that reviews, […]
XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is set to revolutionise business reporting around the world. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using […]
Business Journals - An excellent resource of business journals is available from the Business Library of the University of Florida. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.
MoleSter - A Tiny File-Sharing Application - Dr. Edward Felten recently posted a piece of code called TinyP2P, which demonstrates how easy it is to create a peer-to-peer filesharing application by doing it in just 15 lines of Python. However, TinyP2P uses a ready-made XMLRPC server library, which seems to be taking the easy […]
Time To Get Online - Simple Steps to Success on the Internet - The 150-page Time To Get Online materials are centered around the five essential “steps to success on the Internet”. The first half of the materials is geared towards creating Internet-savvy activists. The second half will help them to become effective Internet champions, […]
CasePlace.org is an online database of business case studies and supplementary materials for faculty seeking to integrate discussion of social and environmental issues into the MBA curriculum. CasePlace.org is also a free online service for business school faculty, students and businesses. They can help you find some of the best cases, references, and commentary published […]
Internet Archive - Text Archive - This collection is free and open for everyone to use. Their goal in digitizing these texts and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival texts. By providing near-unrestricted access to these texts, they hope to encourage widespread use of […]
Working Draft: WSDL 2.0 Primer - The Web Services Description Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the “Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 0: Primer.” A companion to the WSDL 2.0 Core Language, Predefined Extensions and Bindings specifications, the Primer develops a simple example WSDL 2.0 document using a […]
O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET will be the nation’s primary source of occupational information. O*NET is being developed as a timely, easy-to-use resource that supports public and private sector efforts to identify and develop […]
This is a very abbreviated listing of resources for international newspapers. It is extrememly important to maintain current awareness with all the happenings both local and global and these international newspapers resources will definitely aid you in the proper direction for awareness. A complete listing of all the international newspapers is located under the reference […]
World News Connection® (WNC) is an online news service, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, […]
IRIN - United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks - When crisis or disaster hits a country, communications are often one of the first casualties. Reliable sources dry up, government agencies collapse, media images do not give the full picture. Without constantly updated and accurate information on washed-out roads, bombed airfields, landmines, disease-infested water, epidemics, or […]
Speegle - Listen to the results of your search. You can hear the following results: 1) Title, 2) Title and Description, 3) URL and Description, or 4) URL, Title and Description. The results can be delivered in the choice of a female voice or two males voices. This is an interesting concept and offers some […]
The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code). They aim to: a) Provide web developers and designers with a forum to discuss issues and share knowledge (via our discussion list […]
Loads of Linux Links - The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect, organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement for all levels of Linux users. The LoLL project now has 4000+ links which are updated regularly.
This project originally began as a service for the […]
Time Magazine Archives - Not only can you now read almost every issue of TIME since it began publication on March 3, 1923, but you can do a full-text search through more than a quarter million articles. Understanding how our search tool works will help you find what you are looking for, so take […]
Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. The University of Hong Kong Libraries, with a rich collection of Hong […]
Magpie uses ontology infrastructure to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The existing technologies in this problem domain tend to be rather heavyweight, and often modify the appearance of the actual webpage. Whilst these modifications may sometimes be acceptable, sometimes they may be a cause of a serious annoyance on user’s behalf. Often, the existing technologies […]
indeed is a search engine for jobs; a window to search all jobs on the web. Indeed enables you to search millions of jobs across all career fields – jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the […]
GovExec.com is government’s business news daily and the premier Web site for federal managers and executives. Government Executive in its print incarnation is a monthly business magazine serving senior executives and managers in the federal government’s departments and agencies. Their subscribers are high-ranking civilian and military officials who are responsible for defending the nation and […]