As most readers know, I write a column for NYC-based TechnoLawyer called SmallLaw (formerly known as, no joke, “Crazy Mazy”). Anyhow, as TechnoLawyer’s intrepid Chicago reporter I’ve written about the ABA TechShow since 2008; and before that for this blog.
Here are the 12 videos we shot at this year’s TechShow. Feel free to subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more legal tech news and check out my TechnoLawyer pieces as well.
You’ve heard about Q&A phenom Quora, right? Well meet Opzi, the site started by Attorney Euwyn Poon that aims to bottle that Quora lightning and put in on your desktop.
Opzi is part bulletin board, part wiki, part e-mail in-box, part whiteboard, and part real-time-collaboration. The site threads, tags, and organizes every question and answer, then applies a powerful search engine and some machine intelligence. Voila – your office knowledge base grows effortlessly with every new question and answer. The possibilities are staggering. Deployed in a firm or across a group of solos and small firms, for instance, Opzi can draw information and resources, then deploy them when and where needed. In other words, instant knowledge-sharing.
Opzi is currently in closed beta. I’m just starting to appreciate it myself. If you’d like to join the experiment check it out here and let me know your thoughts.
The first time I recommended delicio.us as a research aid, Bar Association members thought I was making up the name.
See. I told you it was real. Now the YouTube guys are going to own it. Wonder if they’ll change the name?
Yahoo has finally found a buyer for long suffering Delicious. YouTube founders Chad Hurleyand Steve Chen have acquired the company, says Yahoo, via a “new Internet company, AVOS.”
via techcrunch.com
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I will be attending IgniteLaw 2011 at the Chicago Hilton & Towers before the ABA Technology Show. Order your tickets here. See you there!
I will also be covering the show on behalf of TechnoLawyer, as I have for the past 4 years … and before that for this blog. Should be great this year!
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CrowdFlower helps businesses outsource mundane and repetitive tasks relating to data collection, content moderation, and product searches to the cloud. It recently raised an additional $7 million for product development and expansion. Most recently it released a categorization product aimed at e-commerce sites. The company’s next goal is industry-specific tasks. It competition from CloudCrowd.
CrowdFlower joins a gaggle of companies including TaskRabbit, AgentAnything, FancyHands, even Peapod, and many others, in a virtual army of online assistant and concierge services – with the twist that CrowdFlower is pursuing the business market. It’s getting pretty crowded in the consumer concierge space so it will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
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