is a new personalized search app that originally came out of a $200 million DARPA artificial intelligence project called CALO or  Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes. It’s a sister company of SIRI, the online “concierge&# that was acquired by Apple last year.  You’re essentially training Trap.it The folks at Trap.it MORE >>

Lisa M. Given and Heidi Julien (University of Alberta) talked about Exploring Undergraduates’ Information Worlds: Conceptualizing Information Literacy from the Ground Up , at the i3 conference at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen [link]. This is looking at the transitional period which, I would add, is an increasing area of research interest. MORE >>

The tablet market has suddenly become a very crowded space: Huawei unveiled its 7-inch MediaPad  yesterday, Hewlett-Packard has begun taking orders for its TouchPad , Research In Motion has shipped 500,000 PlayBooks  and Panasonic is preparing to come to market with an Android-based Toughbook , to name just a few. MORE >>

Here is another in a series of notes on the 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. These are close to real time so I have an excuse for typos this time. attended the excellent E2.0 Black Belt Practitioner's In-Depth Workshop.    Susan Scrupski is the organizer. wrote about the day-long session in four blog posts with links below. MORE >>

Our “workspace&# is no longer just the place we sit while working, it’s come to mean the entirety of how we get our work done. Our offices, practices, devices and software. Note that “work” comes first in “workspace.” Tools and specific locations may be required to get the work done, but they are generally  secondary to the work. MORE >>