See what you can do to provide fantastic search results for your Web site. See how to integrate search engine support into your site, how to allow crawlers to index your catalog, and how easy it is to do all of this with ASP.NET
Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.
This session takes a deeper look at the AJAX paradigm by discussing key development patterns. It demonstrates implementing them using a combination of out-of-the-box features and as well as features built by leveraging the extensibility of the platform. Patterns covered range from fundamentals such as networking, search optimization, navigation, and unobtrusive script attachment to user interface usability techniques such as visual notifications, and customization. The demonstrations are illustrated in the context of a simple scenario, but are designed to be applied directly to real-world applications.
Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.
This session takes a deeper look at the AJAX paradigm by discussing key development patterns. It demonstrates implementing them using a combination of out-of-the-box features and as well as features built by leveraging the extensibility of the platform. Patterns covered range from fundamentals such as networking, search optimization, navigation, and unobtrusive script attachment to user interface usability techniques such as visual notifications, and customization. The demonstrations are illustrated in the context of a simple scenario, but are designed to be applied directly to real-world applications.
Basic Web + Social Media Metrics: Non eCommerce SitesLaura Lee Dooley
Some of the strategic thinking that goes into deciding what metrics to gather and why. With the understanding that "you can't manage what you can't measure" Dooley takes the viewpoint that metrics are much more than page views and visitors.
This is a quick presentation I gave to my teammates to demonstrate some features of responsive design and how it can be applied across different viewports.
Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine OptimizationNine By Blue
If your site is having trouble ranking well in search engines such as Google, you've lost ranking, or you've having trouble with a site move or migration, the trouble could be with the site's technical architecture.
View checklists to help diagnose issues with crawling, indexing, and ranking your site's content.
Basic Web + Social Media Metrics: Non eCommerce SitesLaura Lee Dooley
Some of the strategic thinking that goes into deciding what metrics to gather and why. With the understanding that "you can't manage what you can't measure" Dooley takes the viewpoint that metrics are much more than page views and visitors.
This is a quick presentation I gave to my teammates to demonstrate some features of responsive design and how it can be applied across different viewports.
Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine OptimizationNine By Blue
If your site is having trouble ranking well in search engines such as Google, you've lost ranking, or you've having trouble with a site move or migration, the trouble could be with the site's technical architecture.
View checklists to help diagnose issues with crawling, indexing, and ranking your site's content.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
AI for Every Business: Unlocking Your Product's Universal Potential by VP of ...
Search Capabilities for Dynamic Web Content
1.
2. Nathan Buggia
Jonathan Hawkins
Senior Product Planner
Architect
Live Search
ASP.NET
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
3. Why is Search important?
How to make a Search friendly site
Search enable your ASP.NET site
Search Sitemaps and dynamic data
Improving your Search experience with Live
5. When you’re looking for specific information on an unfamiliar website…
100%
90%
47% Search
80%
70%
60%
50%
33% Browse
40%
30%
13% Abandon
20%
10%
0%
Forrester Research, forrester.com. “It’s time to update site search functionality”, 5/1/2006, Iris Cremers
6. Crawlers index HTML text and follow links
Crawlers visit your site on a regular basis and index for new
content
Determine relevancy relative to the rest of the web
Make pages for users
Produce well formed HTML for your website
Use text words for key terms as crawlers can't index images
Ensure Title and ALT tags are descriptive
Handle Title in ASP.NET Master and Content pages
Meta tags that accurately describes the page contents
Keep links functional and simple
7. Dynamic content
Simple URLs with small number of parameters
http://www.somesite.com/view.aspx?ItemID=22
http://www.somesite.com/movies/view.aspx
Review site in Lynx text browser to ensure crawlers have a
text rendering for high end features
JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, Silverlight
Help the Crawler index the right pages
robots.txt – specify which directories to include/exclude
Sitemap – specify page relative priority, change
frequency, last modified
8. SearchDataSource
Natural binding of UI elements for search input
Enables data binding of search results
Style to your website to provide consistent experience
Search Providers
Live Search (formally MSN Search)
Sample code for Index Server, Yahoo, …
Look at the QuickStarts on how to write your
own search provider
11. Enable search engine crawlers to find information in your
site
Sitemaps provide suggestions to search engines
Specify priority of the URL relative to the other pages in
your site
Specify how frequently the page is likely to change
Specify last modified date time
Partition sitemaps with a sitemap index
Supported by major search engines
See http://sitemaps.org/protocol.html for details
12. Turn your ASP.NET navigation sitemap into a
search sitemap
Add application dynamic data to search site map
URL to the web page
query string parameters
Sitemap priority, change frequency and last
modified date
Customize with databinding and formatting
15. Search query language
http://search.live.com/docs/help.aspx?t=SEARCH_REF_AdvSrchOperators.htm
Search macros (similar to stored procedures)
http://search.live.com/macros
AJAX web search control
http://search.live.com/siteowner
SOAP API
http://dev.live.com/livesearch/sdk
Web, Image, News, Phonebook, and MetaTags
Samples, samples, samples
C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Flash
16. Live Search Supporting Broad Commercial Use
Max Queries/ Day: 25,000
Max Queries/ Second: 10
Best effort service level agreement
Online support: http://forum.microsoft.com
19. Add Search and SiteMaps to your site today!
Live Search
USB Key in your attendee bag
Learn more - http://search.live.com
Feedback - http://forum.microsoft.com
ASP.NET Futures CTP
Download CTP today
Learn more - http://ajax.asp.net
Feedback - http://forums.asp.net/
24. public class ProductSiteMapData : DynamicDataSearchSiteMapProvider
{
// Return a collection of results.
// Use LINQ, ADO.NET, your code to make a collection
public override IEnumerable DataQuery()
{
String connectionString = “…”;
Northwind db = new Northwind(connectionString);
Table<Product> Products = db.Products;
var q =
from p in Products
where p.UnitsInStock > (p.ReorderLevel * 10)
select p;
return q;
}
}