addi+ions blog: Insights from the Internet Obsessed

Micro-nets are the next evolution of the way searches are done. Doing a general search in Google for band information isn’t nearly as effective as going to MySpace and looking up the band there because the paradigm of MySpace is geared better towards bands. It’s easier to make a connection with a possible business associate using LinkedIn than it is to contact them from a standard contact form on their website because LinkedIn’s environment creates a better trust between its members. Lumifi is a new entry to the search and data organization community that claims to accomplish the same niche benefits for research by pre-parsing data to be more relevant to their research topic and giving the user tools to keep it all organized.

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