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Disciplines
Semantic Web
Semantic Computing
Web 3.0
Software as a Service
Natural Language Processing
Related Content Services
Artificial Intelligence
Data Structuring
Company
Inform Technologies Inc.
44 East 30th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Founded: 2004
Funding: $34 million
Investors: Spark Capital, The Stephens Group, Providence Equity Partners
Employees: 35
Annual Sales: $4.5 million
Founders: Neal Goldman and Joey Einhorn. Prior to Inform, Neal founded Capital IQ and sold the firm to Standard & Poor's in 2004 for $225 mil. Capital IQ provides financial research and analytical solutions to over 2,400 investment banks, fund managers and corporations. Standard & Poor's is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data.
About Inform
Inform's unique expertise and proprietary technology provides related content for a broad spectrum of online media and information companies including newspapers, magazines, non-traditional publishers, search engines, and portals. Inform's clients include world-class publishers such as CNN, 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner
The Washington Post,
The Economist, Crain’s, Ziff Davis, Sports Illustrated, IDG, VH1, NBC, Condé Nast Portfolio, Daily News and Newsweek. Inform’s semantic web technology uses proprietary algorithms to read, tag and score millions of pages of content from around the web. Inform’s real time, automated technology structures content data by identifying topics and entities and relating client content to archived or web content. Inform’s products include Related Content from the Web, Related Topics & Entity Pages, Related Videos, Related Blogs and News Vertical Pages.
Related Articles
What You Need to Know About the Semantic Web
By Tom Ilube
Harvard Business Review
The Semantic Web
Video Interview
BusinessWeek
The Semantic Web
By Tim Berners-Lee
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN When Search Results Include More Search Results
By Saul Hansell
THE NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times Embraces the Semantic Web
Video Interview
CYBERJOURNALIST.NET
Inform Technologies Ingests $15 Million from Spark Capital Xconomy
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VICTOR CHU
Product Manager
May, 2006 to May, 2008 Product & Technology Specifications
Working directly with the company's CTO and CEO in managing the company's technology products. Responsible for documenting and managing all product application and technology specifications. Managed product updates and approvals from key executives and technology team leaders on specifications vital to the development of the company's Related Content suite products.
Application Design
Responsible for creating and managing all new product application designs. Working directly with the CTO and CEO on concept designs, mock up screens and wireframes for new applications of Inform's core technology. Product explorations included relating images and video content to news articles, topic content pages, relating products to content and articles and inline link product concepts.
Project Manager
Design and development manager responsible for creating technology tools for the sales and taxonomy teams. Sales Demo Interface Design: interface design, information architecture and development specs for the company’s technology sales demo. A powerful part of every sales presentation, the Sales Demo tool demonstrates how Inform's technology works with a publisher's news articles to return thousands of articles of content from the Web. Easy QA System: interface design, information architecture and development specs for the company’s quality assurance system. The system was designed to enable any employee inside or outside the office to log bugs within 3 quick and easy steps. Each bug is identified, prioritized, categorized and sent to pre-assigned bug fixers.
Research & Development
Responsible for research and identification of new product opportunities, marketing opportunities and sales targets. Over 1000 target clients identified and analyzed. Researched relating products to content and articles while logging over 45,000 product names for the company's taxonomy and name catalog.
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