W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the SWS Testbed Incubator Group sponsored by W3C Members Wright State University, Stanford University, DERI University of Innsbruck, and the National University of Galway, Ireland. The mission of this XG is to develop a standard methodology for evaluating Semantic Web Services based upon a standard set of problems and develop a public repository of such problems. Read about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies.
Work.com is a new service from Business.com, the largest business-to-business search engine and directory. Business.com and Work.com help small business decision-makers solve their most pressing business problems and realize their most compelling opportunities. They make it easy to find the most useful business websites, products, and services saving our users time and money. Whereas Business.com targets the ready-to-transact business-to-business buyer, Work.com is the entrepreneur’s owner’s manual to where to go, what to know, and how to get the most value from the ever-growing array of Web resources for the small business owner/operator. It is comprised of more than 1,000 How-to Guides written by business experts. How-to Guides are straightforward, quick-read descriptions of how to get something done, and where on the Web are the best places to help you check those tasks off your to-do list. Work.com is a community of small-business owner/operators. Users may rate Guides on how useful the are to helping solve business tasks, participate in open discussion forums for each Guide, suggest new Guide topics, or write Guides in their areas of expertise. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
The latest research shows that when prospects search for your company on the Internet, the top 10 listings are likely to include the following:
a) 3 listings from consumer posts to blogs, message boards, and opinion sites,
b) 2 listings from experts,
c) 2 listings from your own corporate site,
d) 1 listing from an online publication, and
e) 2 listings from other sources.
This confirms the need for immediate business intelligence to constantly monitor and evaluate the prospects ongoing searching results for your company, brand, and product.
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), news aggregators, Web 2.0, and MashUps. Mr. Zillman will be discussing these new resources about the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? Will Mash-Ups and the Web 2.0 replace the current Internet as we know it? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.
Knowledge Discovery is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog created and designed by the Virtual Private Library for monitoring knowledge discovery resources and sites on the internet and is freely available. Also a white paper link compilation is freely available in a .pdf format.
Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. They make use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy to publish, convert, embed, analyze, and read documents. Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd theye hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Scientific International Journal (SIJ) is an international, bilingual, cross-disciplinary, and blind- and peer-reviewed journal. It is a forum for the dissemination of information about relevant issues on the areas of health, education, and social sciences. SIJ’s mission is to encourage critical analysis and reflection and to promote quality and excellence in the processes and activities carried out in the delivery of programs and services. SIJ¹s audience is constituted by health, education, and social services professionals, community leaders, planners, managers, supervisors, administrators, and graduate students. In addition, SIJ serves non-profit and for-profit organizations providing health, education, and social services. Such organizations include public and private corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, health services facilities, libraries, and community organizations. SIJ promotes the importance of research and encourages professionals and faculty members to submit their manuscripts. One of the particularities of SIJ is its support to graduate students. SIJ is a portal for the publication of manuscripts based on their theses, dissertations, and other research work. SIJ goals reflect its indispensable and dynamic role in the professional community:
* To contribute to the effective teaching-learning process * To foster the development of research activities * To foster the development of professional publications * To contribute to the betterment of programs and services
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
OER Commons is a teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use. Want to find new courses or lesson plans? Lab activities or syllabi that are open to adapt for your own use? Browse Categories or Collections to find what interests you. With a free membership, you can add tags, ratings, reviews, comments, and favorites to your own portfolio. You can post to discussion, blog, and wiki areas, and see how others are using OER. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources Internet MiniGuide.
The latest research shows that when prospects search for your company on the Internet, the top 10 listings are likely to include the following:
a) 3 listings from consumer posts to blogs, message boards, and opinion sites,
b) 2 listings from experts,
c) 2 listings from your own corporate site,
d) 1 listing from an online publication, and
e) 2 listings from other sources.
This confirms the need for immediate business intelligence to constantly monitor and evaluate the prospects ongoing searching results for your company, brand, and product.
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), news aggregators, Web 2.0, and MashUps. Mr. Zillman will be discussing these new resources about the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? Will Mash-Ups and the Web 2.0 replace the current Internet as we know it? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.
Knowledge Discovery is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog created and designed by the Virtual Private Library for monitoring knowledge discovery resources and sites on the internet and is freely available. Also a white paper link compilation is freely available in a .pdf format.
