Digital Assets Are A “Feeble Storage Medium”
In this Rolling Stone article: “File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis” David Browne considers the lack of robustness of digital media assets […]
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SharePoint Book Review: Professional Microsoft Search – FAST Search, SharePoint Search, And Search Server
Written for programmers, developers, and IT professionals, Professional Microsoft Search: FAST Search, SharePoint Search, and Search Server (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) By Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe and Natalya Voskresenskaya presents an in depth analysis of the key features and functions that are available with FAST search, Microsoft’s latest …
Continue reading »Image SEO: Why Google, Yahoo And Bing Don’t Care About Your Embedded Metadata
Photo metadata and controlled vocabularies guru, David Riecks has written an article on why search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo ignore embedded metadata and, as such, advice that you might read about including it for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) purposes is essentially wrong:
“It is possible …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Reviews: Real World SharePoint 2010 – Indispensable Experiences From 22 MVPs
Providing proven real-world best practices from 22 leading Microsoft SharePoint MVPs, Real World SharePoint 2010: Indispensable Experiences By Randy Drisgill, Reza Alirezaei, Agnes Molnar, Todd Klindt and Claudio Brotto from the Microsoft ‘real world’ series provides a wealth of information on the features and enhancements that SharePoint 2010 has to …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Reviews: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010
Aimed toward developers, IT pros, and technical architects, Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 by Sahil Malik will provide intermediate-level guidance for those developing on the SharePoint 2010 platform for distribution via the web, Microsoft Office or mobile devices. Topics include: sites, web parts, data management, portal solutions, …
Continue reading »Canon Image Authentication Code Cracked By Russian Software Company
Russian password cracking experts, ElcomSoft have cracked Canon’s method of authenticating that images taken by their cameras had not been tampered with (i.e. to prove they were original unmodified images). As reported on The Register:
“The entire image verification system is proved useless,” ElcomSoft CEO Vladimir Katalov said in
SharePoint Book Reviews: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration
The second part of our SharePoint 2010 book review. This week we will concentrate on SharePoint 2010 books for experts. In this review we look at books suitable for experienced SharePoint programmers, administrators and specialist IT consultants.
Once beyond the basics, SharePoint 2010 becomes at platform for a multitude of …
Continue reading »Survey Of Library And Museum Digitisation Projects
Resourceshelf.com has some highlights of research carried out by Primary Research into digitization projects carried out by libraries and museums in the United States. Some stand-out stats of particular relevance to DAM include:
- The mean annual number of staff hours expended per institution on digitisation projects was 2,272 with a
SharePoint Book Reviews: How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Written by a former Microsoft SharePoint Program Manager, How to Do Everything Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Stephen Cawood provides a step-by-step guide to mastering the latest features in SharePoint 2010 in a concise and reader friendly manner, specifically for end users who want to get the most out of their …
Continue reading »Nearly 50% Still Using Shared File Servers For Digital Asset Management
A poll by CMSWire: “Are You Currently Using a Digital Asset Management (DAM) System?” reveals that 49.6% of those who responded are still using shared file servers for managing their digital assets. Departmental and Enterprise DAMs accounted for just 24.81% (5.01% and 19.8% respectively).
The numbers are all the …
Continue reading »SharePoint Book Reviews: Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours by Mike Walsh is a straight forward, step-by-step approach to all the fundamentals of SharePoint 2010. This book provides information on how to build, administer, and secure solutions with the free version of SharePoint 2010. With step-by-step guides, tips and practical …
Continue reading »SharePoint Content Clean Up & Migration Webinar: 8th December 2010, 1PM ET
Earley Associates are hosting a free webinar on SharePoint Content Clean Up & Migration on 8th December 2010 at 1pm (ET). Speakers include John Bellegarde from Active Navigation and Seth Maslin of Earley Associates: The webinar will cover SharePoint migration topics such as:
- How to eliminate the ROT (redundant, obsolete