Keeping pace with marathon runners

KMWorld - New York Road Runners (NYRR) used JangoMail as its e-mail service partner to deliver more than 300,000 e-mails to opted-in subscribers during the New York City Marathon Nov. 1.

NYRR chose JangoMail as its Athlete Alert solution to manage the delivery of alert e-mails on runners during the race. Friends and family members could “subscribe” to a runner, and whenever the runner reached a checkpoint during the marathon, NYRR would send an e-mail alert to the subscribers of that runner. With JangoMail’s SMTP service, NYRR was able to avoid previous technology problems such as delays in the delivery of the e-mail alerts and e-mail blocking issues with consumer Internet service providers.

The new york marathon implemented a new email alert system to allow spectators to track their family members or friends who were competing in the marathon. The new email service is a neat and innovative way to enjoy the race. JangoMail's delivery rate was 99.7% which is a very high success rat for the tens of thousands of emails that were distributed. This email system would work great if implemented in an emergency alert systems or any type of important mass email that would need to be sent. Large corporations would benefit greatly from this type of software.

A matter of Semantics

KMWorld - Nstein has announced Semantic Site Search (3S), which employs the company’s text-mining technology to power a faceted site search that returns highly accurate results that are organized categorically.

3S can ingest content from many different indexes from a variety of Web publishing platforms, meaning it indexes material across multiple properties. It then applies Nstein's semantic enrichment process to it. 3S' embedded Text Mining Engine (TME) identifies concepts, categories, proper names, places, organizations, sentiment and topics in particular content pieces and then annotates those documents, creating a semantic fingerprint that exposes underlying nuances and meaning in content.

Nstein's 3s is a highly configurable and customizable search for the business environment. This will help combat information glut that would normally take place. Widgets are also bundled which are designed to make the search experience more enjoyable. These widgets also allow for organization of the information from date of relevance. Text Mining technology can really benefit a a company and Nstein's semantic site search seems like a very useful product.

Building a Better (and Useful) Corporate Intranet Starts With a Wiki

CIO - When Matthew Schultz started at iCrossing in February, a digital marketing firm, he realized his company had a knowledge management challenge. As the company expanded through acquisition, there wasn't a fundamental method or technology to harness institutional knowledge.

"We're adding not only products, but we were growing in people and the knowledge they bring," says Schultz, the company's VP of technology. "We needed a way to put all this knowledge in one location."

The existing corporate intranet was typical: a phone directory, a few uploaded corporate documents, and no way to update it without getting help from the IT department, which was consumed with running critical corporate applications.


Much like intouch wireless' problem seen during the knowledge audit presentation, iCrossing has a primitive and a badly utilized intranet. So to be able to harness the knowledge of the company he decided to move to wiki technology. The company deicided to go with Socialtext, a company that sells wikis to enterprises. Socialtext was the prime choice because there is no need for knowing HTML code, much like this blog site everything is WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get). This allows anyone to use this software without much experience in the wiki area. With everyone being able to easily collaborate, the tables have turned from a top down intranet to a bottom up one.