Real-time search

Article about the value of real-time search, which is searching of real-time sources of information such as Twitter. NESP could be setup to provide similar real-time data streams, except for researchers. How might that change the nature and speed of research?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/25ping.html

 

 

Creating maps and location-based databases

Google offers free navigation apps                       

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/technology/companies/29gps.html?_r=1&hp

The interesting thing here is that Google is no longer licensing data from TeleAtlas or Navteq. They are generating it themselves. Access to the appropriate location-based databases is becoming increasingly valuable.

 

 

Mountains of data

An article about training students to work with the mountains of data that will be generated in the future (from systems such as a NESP?)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?_r=1