Useful or not, the onslaught of information has workers across the globe feeling stressed and disparaged. –
Workers
across the planet admit to being overwhelmed by the voracious volume of
work-related information they have to consume and digest via e-mail and other
information collection systems. Information has to be taken in, but how it is
processed, organized and made useful is up for serious deb…
Cute Overload! When Jonah Met Elmo…..
With Project Vulcan, IBM is looking to filter out the noise associated with social networking across the IBM Lotus messaging and collaboration portfolio. The initiative will appear in a developer environment beta in the second half of 2010 from LotusLive Labs, a new research effort that the company plans to open to partners to propel IBM’s cloud computing efforts for collaboration. Social analytics created under the aegis of Vulcan will be used to offer workers recommendations for expertise, relevant content and business events.
– ORLANDO, Fla. IBM
Jan. 18 said it is working on a new effort to add social analytics to its Lotus
collaboration software portfolio to help businesses filter out some of the
noise in their social networks.
Dubbed Project Vulcan, the initiative will appear in a developer environment
beta in the …
In this age of information, overload is a universal concern. According to a study done by UC Berkley professors and their students, each year, 250 megabytes of new data is generated for every man, woman and child on earth. That’s enough information generated to fill roughly 30 FEET of books per person per year.
My post on the Washington state linking project focused on the awesome innovation involved and on the benefits of collaborative linking in general. But the project also shows why this kind of news aggregation is so useful for a local audience.
The biggest danger with news aggregation is that instead of acting as a filter, it [...]
