http://blog.jobgravy.com Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:37:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the new JobGravy Blog! JobGravy is a new internet career service startup based in part on the technology and business efforts of Alluvial Labs, which (along with the original Alluvial Labs Blog) will be a part of JobGravy moving forward.  We are working on technology that will allow people ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/10/17/introducing-jobgravy/ Paul Harrison of Carve Consulting was good enough to interview me regarding the forthcoming JobGravy service at the OnRec Expo earlier this month in Chicago: Paul alludes to comments made by Gautam Godhwani of Simply Hired.  Gautam pointed out that the reason search engines like Google occupy such an important commercial ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/09/26/paul-harrison-inquires-about-jobgravy-at-onrec-in-chicago/ Six months ago we published a breakdown of the technologies occurring in several thousand tech job listings. We recently re-ran the experiment, once again using the Calais natural language processing engine. Last time around, we noted a shortcoming of Calais against this kind of data: it failed ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/09/09/calais-on-jobs-data-part-2/ Today's 2008 Text Analytics Summit involved several good sessions on the analysis of social media data.  In keeping with the event's enterprise software focus, these discussions emphasized the challenges organizations face in mining social media data to accomplish marketing objectives, creating and improving customer relationships being primary among them. Matthew Hurst ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/06/17/social-media-coverage-at-text-analytics-summit/   Photo: Google App Engine discussion - ShimonRura, Brian Olson, James Hall, et al Note: The following account of BarCamp Boston benefits from the additional time for reflection and inevitable blurring of facts afforded by the week's vacation that immediately followed it. BarCamp Boston is an annual gathering of Boston-area technology people, part ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/05/28/barcamp-boston/ This morning's Social Media Breakfast in at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge included a speaker's panel focused on hiring and getting hired using social media. The speakers included: Stever Robbins, consultant/executive coach and host of the Get-It-Done Guy Podcast Aaron Strout, VP of new media at Mzinga. Todd Defren, principal ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/05/01/boston-social-media-breakfast-covers-getting-hired-in-a-20-world/ Calais is a web service from Reuters based on the natural language processing (NLP) technology they acquired along with software company ClearForest. Reuters are making powerful entity extraction and semantic algorithms available free through this API, making it easy for ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/04/16/opencalais-on-jobs-data/ The first annual Money:Tech Conference in New York was excellent. Almost every one of the dozens of presentation/panel sessions involved interesting, forward-looking work in finance, computing, or both. A couple of highlights: Context is king - there seems to be increased emphasis on technology that puts information into context as ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/02/19/trends-oreilly-moneytech-2008/ Released last month, RivalMap is web-based, enterprise software for the management of market & competitive intelligence. It's of potential interest to those outside the realm of market & competitive intelligence because of its design. It illustrates well thought-out decisions regarding information management aspects important to any system that ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2008/01/11/rivalmap-strong-design/ Amazon Web Services (AWS) held an event to promote their Startup Challenge in Cambridge on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Two aspects of the event were impressive: AWS makes sense for developing sites because their services handle a lot of the routine aspects of scaling a site. This isn't ... http://blog.jobgravy.com/2007/09/29/amazon-a-good-host/