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Dorthy: Search and Dream in Public

ReadWriteWeb  Nov 19 09

At first glance, the phrase "dream achievement service" conjures images of people in head scarves listening to self-help tapes. Nevertheless, in the case of semantic search service Dorthy, "dream achievement" is about getting good results free from the irrelevant fodder of the regular search experience. In August 2009, Dorthy celebrated its Alpha release and as of this evening it's opening access to its data.

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Dorthy claims to be a mixture of "AI, machine learning, natural language processing and common sense reasoning." Rather than focussing on individual keyword search, the site looks at the combined history of a users searches and adapts to omit and serve specific results. Full story...

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Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy?

ReadWriteWeb  about an hour ago

Last week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system.

Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times

ReadWriteWeb  just under two hours ago

Foursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game.

Europe's 17 Golden Rules for Keeping Safe on Social Networks

ReadWriteWeb  just under two hours ago

Are you using your real name on your social network profiles? According to the European Union's Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), that's a big mistake.

Live Blogging from Google

ReadWriteWeb  3 hours ago

This morning, Google is announcing some exciting new features for two of its most popular applications.

After Success in Boulder, Open Angel Forum Marches Onward to San Francisco and New York

ReadWriteWeb  4 hours ago

The talk of the venture capital and entrepreneurial towns these days is the Open Angel Forum which after its second event in Boulder, Colorado is now announcing two more events in New York and San Francisco.

Amazon Simple Storage Service - Not So Simple Anymore

ReadWriteWeb  4 hours ago

Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of a new feature of their Simple Storage Service (S3).

Google Wave Coming to Google Apps this Year

ReadWriteWeb  4 hours ago

Google Wave, the maddeningly confusing yet highly innovative real-time collaboration tool, will become a member of Google's online office suite Google Apps later this year.

Google Exiting China? Not Just Yet

ReadWriteWeb  5 hours ago

Last month, Google received high praise from human rights supporters after threatening to exit the Chinese search market, claiming it was no longer comfortable with censoring search results per government demands.

ViralHeat: Social Media Analysis for the Budget-Minded Soul

ReadWriteWeb  7 hours ago

These days, the words "social media campaign" are on the lips of everyone around, from media professionals to small business owners to college students in coffee shops.

How The Godfather Would Pick Enterprise 2.0 Champions

ReadWriteWeb  8 hours ago

From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies.

A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.



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