KRIM : Web Application Software Developer

I have been accepted to present about our experience in developing an internet intelligence application on the Drupal framework [1] at FOSS.my [2] on Saturday 8 November 2008 [3] which will be held at APIIT [4] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hope all goes well as I have a tender to submit on the Friday and my postgraduate project proposal to submit on the Sunday. So why not just take the easy way out and quit ?

Technocrati [1] is free web based service that allows its visitors to search and browse popularity indexes of user generated content. For registered users they can submit their blogs to be indexed by Technocrati. Blogs that are submitted need to have feeds in the Atom or RSS formats for Technocrati to aggregate and provide the link to the blog content to index. The content should also have appropriate tags and keywords to enable Technocrati to categorise the blog. On the Technocrati front page, there is a list of popular content, a list of main categories, a tagcloud of popular keywords, chart of the daily count of a specific keyword, and advertisements. You can view my Technorati Profile here. So what is the benefit of adding your blog to Technocrati ?

Research and advisory firm, Gartner Inc identified social networks and web mashups among the top ten most disruptive technologies that will shape the future of information technologies [1]. Gartner defines a disruptive technology as one that causes major change in ‘the accepted way of doing things’, including business models, processes, revenue streams, industry dynamics and consumer behaviour. We are currently developing two products that belong to each of those two categories. What and why are we developing products that feature disruptive technologies ?

Many people have asked me what was the purpose of developing the internet Intelligence Data Application (i-IDA) [1] ? So that I can provide a straight answer every time, I have put this to blog. i-IDA is a tool for collecting information published on the internet, processing it and providing an analytical presentation so that experts in the field can provide strategic insight. This is part of the intelligence cycle process which roughly translates as knowing what other people know. The United States of America's Central Intelligence Agency [2] and Federal Bureau of Investigation [3] are users of the intelligence cycle. One of the key feature for i-IDA is the tagcloud [4]. Other intelligent people have used tagclouds to analyse the speeches of Senator McCain and Senator Barack Obama in the run up to the United States of America Presidential Elections.

This month the Software Unit launched an alpha version of its' internet Intelligence Data Application (i-IDA) [1]. The purpose of i-IDA is to help people make sense of the millions of textual data on the internet. i-IDA uses multi-hierarchy taxonomies, multi-lingual ontologies, time-series charting, content relations and advert associations. There is still a long way to go especially in setting up our own multi-lingual ontologies which combines several languages into a structured categorisation of subject matter and keywords. So what does it have to do with Sabah trouncing Terengganu 52 - 1 ?

An application of the Drupal open source content management framework for collecting data and analysing information from the internet. Includes a taxonomy of multilingual ontologies, automated content tagging, time-series marking, flash chart queries. A tool for people who need to analyse unstructured textual content. The web based application is developed using open source Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP technologies. Subscribed users can access the i-IDA Knowledge Base. Announcement : Alpha demo will be made available in October 2008.