We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly borned Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet. Since Ulitzer's beta launch a few weeks ago, a number of inaccurate and untrue news reports have also appeared that were picked up from blog sites with private agendas. Some of these stories even accused Ulitzer of "posting stolen articles." Two weeks after our beta launch, out of roughly 1 million original artic... (more)

RIA Applications for Web 3.0 Using the Microsoft Platform

The level of functionality on the Web is changing and the bar is rising on what is considered a true rich Internet application (RIA). This fact and the emergence of the Web as an interconnected platform is once again changing the landscape and moving us into the next phase of the Web, which is called Web 3.0. It might be a little early to completely define what Web 3.0 will be but there ... (more)

Is it the Time to Follow Twitter and Learn Scala?

The Register has published an article about Twitter considering moving the mission critical portion of its code from Ruby on Rails to Scala. This sounded logical to me, even though the article has been dated by April first. But then Artima has confirmed the news a couple of days later. As usual, the bad part of me goes, "Told, ya!" as people who read my posts knows that I was never a fan o... (more)

Semantic Intelligence

Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise. However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization. Applications, blogs, social networks, and forums where content creation, sharin... (more)