5 Tips for Advanced Metadata Management

5 Tips for Advanced Metadata Management. Metadata Management is the process of ensuring that all metadata associated with a digital asset is captured, organized, stored and made available for use by and within other applications. Metadata Management begins at the moment the digital asset is created by an application or captured by digital imaging. metadata […]

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Curatorr: A Twitter Tool for Media Companies

Curatorr: A Twitter Tool for Media Companies. Lately, quite a few TV channels – likeCNN – have replaced their man-on-the-street interviews with the cheaper solution of just doing a Twitter search and displaying the results on TV.Curatorr‘s mission is to help these media companies make the process of finding tweets to put on air even […]

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ROI calculations are a joke

ROI calculations are a joke. Our colleagues over atForrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM andWCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect, “72% of respondents intend to expand their use of ECM technologies“… but there was an intriguing second key conclusion in the […]

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Canon Rebel T2i / EOS 550D

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The intertubes are buzzing this week with the announcement of the Canon Rebel T2i (also known as the EOS 550D in Europe). In short, it has an APS-C format sensor that is similar to the Canon 7D (which means it’s roughly the size of a motion picture film frame, for “filmic” depth of field), accepts […]

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If you think hiring a professional photographer is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur

There’s a wonderful discussion on LinkedIn’s “Photography Industry Professionals” group about the future of professional photography. The quote “If you think hiring a professional photographer is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur” speaks volumes. Experienced Photo Editors, Art Buyers and Creative Directors all know this. I don’t think the less experienced ones, under the […]

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Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal

Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM. The web is becoming more dynamic, context-aware and personalized by the day, and the amount of information consumed by each person is increasing exponentially. But while hardware performance is improving, except when it comes to the simplest of parallel programming tasks, software infrastructure is not keeping […]

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Extractiv: Content Provisioning

Extractiv: Content Provisioning : Beyond Search. A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to Extractiv. The company is in the “content provisioning business”, and I did not know what this phrase meant. I know about “telecommunications provisioning”, but the “content” part threw me. I followed the links my reader sent me and located […]

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Video Ubiquity as a Transformational Impact

How Falling Prices Have Created Video Ubiquity – GigaOM. Transformational Impact The impact of more video devices in more places is the consumption of more bandwidth than ever before, which will transform networking. And more processing and storage will be required than ever before, which will transform IT, including cloud computing. Today’s HDTV streams need […]

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