Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken. Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack
The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software, including: * Lucene Java, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology. * Nutch builds on Lucene Java to provide web search application software.
Wikia, last week bought the distributed crawler Grub from LookSmart and plans to make it available in open source. Not that LookSmart was really using it anyway — and they also did ad business with Wikia.
The global TV-Anytime Forum is an association of organizations which seeks to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer platforms - simply referred to as local storage.
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide rang
LULOP2 is a "Internet news gathering" platform, i.e. an integrated platform meant to perform -in an open publishing environment- the logistic and transaction stages of "news gathering" in the specific meaning that the broadcast news industry gives to the
openness is required to leverage the network effect of the Web and harness the power of socially-connected users, but control is required to get a share of any money that changes hands.but the truth is that nobody has demonstrated yet how to maximize prof
