Interesting tool to solve a lot in one go

Combines Wiki, Blog, Sharing information, and much more. Very good value for money for a starting knowledge and information management project in an organisation. Try the demo yourself

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: Enterprise 2.0

Avenue A RazorFish practices what it preaches...

Facet Maps... easy navigation

Build your own facetmap.

Search and navigation interface

Try it yourself.

Google has made us smarter?

Yet another metadata project has started

A colleague an I will be rebuilding the corporate taxonomy for one of the largest technological research companies in The Netherlands. It's gonna be i n t e r e s t i n g.

New book on taxonomies, a practical one this time

Evert Jagerman, manager of a large team of researchers and information professionals at McKinsey&Co's Amsterdam office, published his book on creating, applying and maintaining quality taxonomies. The book is the outcome of elaborate studies and evaluations in daily practice for his Masters Thesis. He graduated from Middlesex University, London. I was one of the members of the jury that day. A job well done!

From the archives, presentation for FIAT/IFTA

I know, I know, 2004 is some time ago, but I just got hold of the picture taken that day. I gave a speech on searching and navigation in television archives for the international federation of television archives.

Yahoo! F o o d ?

To a European 'USA' doesn't immediately trigger the 'food'-part of the brain, to say the least. Maybe they invented repackaging, convert-to-junk food, fast food, branding food and things alike, but definitely not tasty food based on fresh ingredients and skilled cooking. Yahoo just announced Yahoo Food, a recipe search engine, which they will launch in the home market first. Probably it's a good idea advertising wise, but what kind of recipes could one actually find with it, I ask you? I'm envisaging categories like: greasiness, fattiness, estimated time of delivery, tastelessness, ... PS I'm willing to make an exception for the sunny state of California, they seem to have grasped the idea of good food, quality ingredients, slow food, drinking wine, ...

Functional usage of Maps and information projected on it: traffic info

There are a great many examples of using GoogleMaps or other map browsers to project geo-referenced or geo-tagged information. Many of them are not really functional at all, just nice to see or fun. Traphic made something really useful. You should know that The Netherlands is extremely dense traffic wise. It is extremely high on the list of inhabitants/square meter on a global scale, hence our main roads are jammed and even rail roads are jammed due to the maximum usage of it. I something goes wrong, gigantic jams occur. Their map of the main roads even shows images from the camera's installed at key crossings and entrances/exits. The rail road map shows dots which are trains, the pop-up I opened in the picture below is the yellow dot train on the left, the pop-up gives its delay information. I think it's brilliant!