Product Reviews Capturing Structured Data With an AIR App: Acesis Goes to DEMO One of the projects I've been most intrigued with here at DEMO is Acesis, a clinical data capture service that does two things of interest to me: it makes structured data collection simple and it brings Adobe's Rich Internet Application platforms Flex and AIR into the enterprise. Medicine is a space with a whole lot of data and a whole lot of… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Politics OnlinePrimary: Towards an Internet Election System During my current trip to the US, I've been following the US presidential primaries - it's hard not to, with the blanket coverage on CNN and in newspapers. Coincidentally while trying to hail a taxi after the Crunchies ceremony, I bumped into a man who is building an Internet version of the primaries. Called OnlinePrimary, it's an experimental… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams Six Apart this morning launched a plugin for their MovableType blogging platform that aggregates and displays a user's activity from social web sites. Similar to FriendFeed, the Action Streams plugin displays things like, your latest posts to Twitter, images from Flickr, videos from YouTube, or events from Upcoming. The plugin is available this… Josh Catone View comments
enterprise Beyond Vertical Search to Business Networks Vertical Search is one of those confusing terms that means many different things, depending on where you are coming from. To most RWW readers, Vertical Search tends to mean “the search space that Google has not yet grabbed and that does not require a major technology breakthrough such as natural language search”. That’s a good… Bernard Lunn View comments
Facebook Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity? There appears to be evidence that Facebook users are beginning to suffer from app fatigue, and there is growing discontent about how applications are being distributed and about the amount of noise that the application platform has introduced into the Facebook ecosystem. As Mark Glaser writes on the PBS MediaShift blog, Facebook has a growing… Social Josh Catone View comments