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Hummingbird Will Make Google Searches Hum
October 6, 2013
Meet Hummingbird: Google Just Revamped Search To Answer Your Long Questions Better - Forbes. Has it been 15 years since Google entered our vocabulary and our lives? The new search engine algorithm from Google, code named Hummingbird, won't be noticeable to most of us. However, your searches will be much faster and better, and Google will be able to better understand the rambling searches we create.
October 6, 2013
Meet Hummingbird: Google Just Revamped Search To Answer Your Long Questions Better - Forbes. Has it been 15 years since Google entered our vocabulary and our lives? The new search engine algorithm from Google, code named Hummingbird, won't be noticeable to most of us. However, your searches will be much faster and better, and Google will be able to better understand the rambling searches we create.
Free Law Project To Promote Access to Law, For Free
October 6, 2013
Court opinions and records are in the public domain, and therefore open to the public, of course. But not for free – just try to secure a case from PACER. UC Berkeley School of Information assistant professor Brian Carver and UC Berkeley alumnus Michael Lissner have taken the law into their own hands, so to speak, and have formed a non-profit organization called the Free Law Project with the goal of providing free and easy to access legal content for download. As can be seen from their About...
October 6, 2013
Court opinions and records are in the public domain, and therefore open to the public, of course. But not for free – just try to secure a case from PACER. UC Berkeley School of Information assistant professor Brian Carver and UC Berkeley alumnus Michael Lissner have taken the law into their own hands, so to speak, and have formed a non-profit organization called the Free Law Project with the goal of providing free and easy to access legal content for download. As can be seen from their About...
5 Things To Know About Analytics in the World of Commerce
October 5, 2013
The customer - thanks to advances in technology (digital, social, and mobile) - has become the center of the commerce universe. In order for enterprises to attract and retain customers they must provide access to their product information across multiple channels. The real trick is truly knowing the customer and customizing communication with that customer to their particular needs and wants. That is where the power of analytics comes in. 1. Customer satisfaction is very important 2. Sellers want...
October 5, 2013
The customer - thanks to advances in technology (digital, social, and mobile) - has become the center of the commerce universe. In order for enterprises to attract and retain customers they must provide access to their product information across multiple channels. The real trick is truly knowing the customer and customizing communication with that customer to their particular needs and wants. That is where the power of analytics comes in. 1. Customer satisfaction is very important 2. Sellers want...
The Wow Factor: YouTube Helps Lawyers Create Infographics
October 5, 2013
Whether persuading a jury, presenting at a beauty contest for a potential client, or teaching law students, attorneys must...
October 5, 2013
Whether persuading a jury, presenting at a beauty contest for a potential client, or teaching law students, attorneys must...
How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics
October 4, 2013
Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google...
October 4, 2013
Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google...
App Of The Week: HeinOnline – Law Journals And Other Legal Research Materials
October 1, 2013
HeinOnline swims with the big legal research subscription-based sharks by filling a niche and doing it well. The service...
October 1, 2013
HeinOnline swims with the big legal research subscription-based sharks by filling a niche and doing it well. The service...
Swan Song: Robert Ambrogi’s Finale
September 29, 2013
Fifteen years ago, on her first day as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News , Monica Bay had a problem. She took over just as the September issue was about to go to press, and a scheduled column was AWOL, leaving a hole in the magazine that needed to be filled on short order. We knew each other through the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management section, when she was a law student and then an editor at ALM's The Recorder newspaper. She called me and asked if I could write an article,...
September 29, 2013
Fifteen years ago, on her first day as editor-in-chief of Law Technology News , Monica Bay had a problem. She took over just as the September issue was about to go to press, and a scheduled column was AWOL, leaving a hole in the magazine that needed to be filled on short order. We knew each other through the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management section, when she was a law student and then an editor at ALM's The Recorder newspaper. She called me and asked if I could write an article,...
Nate Silver Predicts That You, Too, Can Be A Data Master
September 29, 2013
Everybody has a crush on Nate Silver. The statistician-author-blogger calls elections and awards with titillating accuracy--and from what he's said before, it's mostly gut feeling. Thankfully HBR.org had the guts to ask him why. So let's learn how to have the stomach ourselves. TO GET DATA LITERATE QUICK, FIRST GET DIRTY. Silver's thoughts on getting good with data echo back to earlier findings on unstoppability: It's about getting as experienced, rather than knowledgeable, as quickly...
September 29, 2013
Everybody has a crush on Nate Silver. The statistician-author-blogger calls elections and awards with titillating accuracy--and from what he's said before, it's mostly gut feeling. Thankfully HBR.org had the guts to ask him why. So let's learn how to have the stomach ourselves. TO GET DATA LITERATE QUICK, FIRST GET DIRTY. Silver's thoughts on getting good with data echo back to earlier findings on unstoppability: It's about getting as experienced, rather than knowledgeable, as quickly...
How Patent Lawyer Raj Abhyanker Developed a $8.5M Book of Business with Trademarkia
September 29, 2013
As a law student Raj Abhyanker had many questions, mostly about why the profession seemed so inefficient. "I wouldn't be surprised if some people didn't quite get Raj," says Douglas Sylvester, dean of Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. "His questions weren't about interpretations; they were challenges to the whole idea. "He was never very interested in learning the doctrine of rules," Sylvester adds. "It was always about 'I don't think this is right.'" Abhyanker,...
September 29, 2013
As a law student Raj Abhyanker had many questions, mostly about why the profession seemed so inefficient. "I wouldn't be surprised if some people didn't quite get Raj," says Douglas Sylvester, dean of Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. "His questions weren't about interpretations; they were challenges to the whole idea. "He was never very interested in learning the doctrine of rules," Sylvester adds. "It was always about 'I don't think this is right.'" Abhyanker,...
Not So Fast: A Google Fiber 1-Gigabit Mystery
September 28, 2013
Google’s 1-gigabit service made a big statement, but what’s still far from clear is who actually uses it–and for what Google Fiber’s affordable 1 gigabit-per-second Internet service in Kansas City has been held out as an instrument of national shaming (see “When Will the Rest of us Get Google Fiber?”). But a few niggling questions remain. Who is really needs or uses the 1-gig service? What can you actually get from it?I was reminded of these questions last week, when Netflix...
September 28, 2013
Google’s 1-gigabit service made a big statement, but what’s still far from clear is who actually uses it–and for what Google Fiber’s affordable 1 gigabit-per-second Internet service in Kansas City has been held out as an instrument of national shaming (see “When Will the Rest of us Get Google Fiber?”). But a few niggling questions remain. Who is really needs or uses the 1-gig service? What can you actually get from it?I was reminded of these questions last week, when Netflix...
