A team from OHO is attending the MarkLogic Digital publishing summit in New York City today. As a MarkLogic partner, OHO is a sponsor of the event. OHO develops user interfaces for businesses using MarkLogic to manage large quantities of unstructured data.
I'm at the Mark Logic 2009 User Conference in San Francisco. For those not familar with the company, Mark Logic provides a software platform that combines an XML database, search engine, and application server. It is a powerful, and exteremly fast, platform for building content rich applications that combine structured and unstructured data into a single user experience.
The first day started with "The Wisdom of Crowds" author James Surowiecki speaking on how collaboration that follows certain practices can consistently generate results "better than the smartest person in the room." He also described some interesting software applications that various companies have used to improve results using these techniques.
Wrapping up the day was discussion on the Google Book Project and the Copyright Settlement between MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg and Dan Clancy who leads the Google Book Search Project. The discussion was actually too brief for me, Dan hinted at some data they have showing how Book Search keeps active titles selling at higher levels than is typical. How making data searchable generates better book sales or other revenue would be an outstanding stand alone session.
Mark Logic also showed off some new features of the upcoming 4.1 release and discussed cloud computing and social networking. They tied those 3 topics nicely together with a demonstration application that mines Twitter data called Tweet Explorer. Tweet Explorer is running in the Amazon EC3 cloud system. You can follow the conference using Tweet Explorer here: http://tweetexplorer.marklogic.com/search?q=mluc09%20sort:time They built that app in about 5 hours using some of the version 4.1 tools – quite impressive.
If you want more follow the conference blog: http://marklogic-userconference.tumblr.com.
The Mark Logic User Conference 2009 is the largest conference in North America devoted entirely to leveraging XML and related technologies. This year’s conference will take place on May 12 - 14, 2009 at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The annual conference offers outstanding opportunities to network with your peers and the Mark Logic team, attend informative technology and applications sessions, and the chance to learn the latest information on the next release.
For more information see: http://www.marklogic.com/UserConference2009/
MarkLogic, the leading XML content software company, welcomed OHO into its partner program in 2008. MarkLogic XML software provides firms that publish content the ability to repurpose that content in easy, flexible, and cost effective ways. Content that has been locked up in proprietary formats can be made available for the web, mobile, e-book, PDF, RSS, and other formats. OHO is applying our award-winning user interface and work flow expertise along with the MarkLogic software to build innovative new solutions.
