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A few days ago, one of my clients sent me a link to a big file which was supposed to contained an img file extension. At first, I thought it was an image so I used my regular image viewer to see what was inside the file. As it turned out, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

After a quick search, I found at http://file-types.com/ (a blog devoted to cataloging file types and the tools used to manipulate them), IMG is a file format used for creating and exchanging ‘disk images’ commonly used on Mac computers.

These files contain exact “image” copies of every element of DVDs, CDs or floppy disks. Data, filesystem and everything there’s to preserve. This duplication process preserves the disk’s original structure, thereby eliminating any chance of data loss. It also becomes useful when you have a lot of floppy disks or CDs hanging around and you want to store them all in DVDs, saving a lot of room in your CD/DVD case.

There are many programs that allow you to create these images, as well as use them in “virtual disk drives”, allowing you to access the image’s contents as if you were using the actual disk. I can’t tell you how useful that is when you have a lot of disks on your CD case and you want to store them in DVDs but still be able to access the information without writing them to a recordable disk.

All this information was at that website, so I added it to my bookmarks in case I need to check another weird file type. Thumbs up, guys!

Presentation: Internet 2009 and Beyond – Bots, Blogs, News Aggregators, MashUps and the Web 3.0 by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

Presented to: First Presbyterian Church Men’s Club, Naples, Florida

Presentation Sources:

Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http://www.botsblogs.com/
http://zillman.tv/

Searching the Internet – Online Streaming Video Tutorial
http://www.searchingtheinternet.info/

Deep Web Research
http://www.DeepWebResearch.info/

White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
http://www.WhitePapers.us/

Manage Information Overload
http://www.ManageInformationOverload.info/

Business Intelligence Resources
http://www.BIResources.info/

Artificial Intelligence Resources
http://www.AIResources.info/

Virtual Private Library Subject Tracer Information Blogs
http://www.VirtualPrivateLibrary.com/

eHealthcareBot.com – Search Engine for healthcare Resources
http://www.eHealthcareBot.com/

eFinancialBot.com – Your Global Financial Search Engine
http://www.eFinancialBot.com/

eCouponBot.com – Find Online Coupons and Discount Codes
http://www.eCouponBot.com/

LinkSeries Publications
http://www.LinkSeries.com/

Awareness Watch Monthly Newsletter
http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

Zillman Columns
http://www.ZillmanColumns.com

Zillman Blog (9000+ Postings on Research and Internet Sources)
http://www.zillman.us/

Five Years From Now, Media Will Be Totally Intangible by Steve Rubel
http://adage.com/article?article_id=132862

The latest research shows that when prospects search for your company on the Internet, the top 10 listings are likely to include the following:

a) 3 listings from consumer posts to blogs, message boards, and opinion sites,

b) 2 listings from experts,

c) 2 listings from your own corporate site,

d) 1 listing from an online publication, and

e) 2 listings from other sources.

This confirms the need for immediate business intelligence to constantly monitor and evaluate the prospects ongoing searching results for your company, brand, and product.

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the The Internet 2009 and Beyond with emphasis on the growing areas of bots, intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), news aggregators, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, MashUps and the Web 3.0 . The basics of searching will be shown with new easy refinements and showing searching is now health beneficial!! We will surf through the Internet showing some new and very exciting niched searched engines covering healthcare, financial as well as a brand new search engine that finds coupons and discount codes to save you dollars in today slow economy. The Internet’s future is both theoretical and practical and will relate to all that gather in cyberspace to continue education and to keep current! We truly live in exciting times ……. Will Mash-Ups and the Web 3.0 replace the current Internet as we know it? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here.

Time: 10:30am

Date: Monday, December 1, 2008

Group: First Presbyterian Church Men’s Club

Location: Naples, Florida

Askmarkets – Prediction Market Internet-Based Service
http://askmarkets.com/

Askmarkets is an internet-based service for prediction markets, which consists of virtual marketplaces for information trading. Their inspiration for askmarkets stems from several years of research on the topic of prediction markets, enabling them to separate the wheat from the chaff. The concept, at its very core, goes like this. Markets are institutions that are everywhere. From the stock market in New York to the fish market in Tokyo to the flower market in Amsterdam, markets exist and are used for a variety of purposes. But, while stock markets, for example, seem to be so different than betting, or fish and flower markets, in their core all those institutions are essentially the same: Markets bring people together, they sum up their information and transmit it through prices. Askmarkets intends to bring this functionality to the masses. They provide a tool with which anyone can create a virtual market or trade in markets created by others. In other words, they provide a tool which can aggregate the opinions and knowledge of the many and transform these into a meaningful result. Markets arise as the ideal tool to crowdsource cognitive tasks and arrive at consensus results which are typically proven to be more accurate or correct than the opinions of the few experts, as suggested by both theory, experiments and practice. This has been added to Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR)
http://www.springer.com/environment/journal/11356

Environmental Science and Pollution Research – International (ESPR) serves the international community in all areas of Environmental Science and related subjects with emphasis on chemical compounds. It reports from a broad interdisciplinary outlook. Apart from the strictly scientific contributions as research articles (short and full papers) and reviews, ESPR publishes: news & views from research and technology, legislation and regulation, hardware and software, education, literature, institutions, organizations, conferences. Commentary and editorials round out the journal¹s contents. This has been added to Green Files Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

ParsCit Project – Reference String Parsing
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/

This is the home page of the ParsCit project, which performs reference string parsing. It is architected as a supervised machine learning procedure that uses Conditional Random Fields as its learning mechanism. You can download the code, parse strings online, or send batch jobs to their web service (coming soon!). The code contains both the training data, feature generator and shell scripts to connect the system to a web service (used here too). This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.