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Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

By John Ward / March 20, 2015 / 65 Comments
This is the history of my experience trying to make money online over the past 10 years or so. This is by far the longest post I've ever personally written and it's more of an autobiography than a blog post....
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I Made an Automated Pancakeswap Prediction Bot

By John Ward / October 14, 2022 / 0 Comments
A few weeks ago I got the idea to try to automatically bid on Pancakeswap's Prediction game. So I decided to try to build a Pancakeswap Prediction bot to take on the task. I did this just to learn about...
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IBM Watson Explorer

By John Ward / April 6, 2015 / 1 Comment
I'm going to talk a little bit about IBM Watson Explorer (WEX). A few people have contacted me about what I do at my day job as a Watson Explorer Consultant. Since this is my personal site I don't usually...
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What is IBM Watson

By John Ward / July 24, 2020 / 0 Comments
There is a lot of confusion about what exactly IBM Watson is? I'm going to try to clear that up a little bit in this blog post. I'll go into the history of IBM Watson and what IBM is doing...
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My 2022 Recap and 2023 Plans

By John Ward / January 13, 2023 / 0 Comments
I haven't been posting to my blog that often, but I wanted to recap 2022 and lay out some of my plans for 2023. Overall, 2022 was a pretty good year for me, and I made some progress on business...
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Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search

By John Ward / May 12, 2020 / 0 Comments
Are you interested in IBM Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch? Recently, I had to do some comparisons between IBM Watson Explorer and Elasticsearch for a project. I spent some time going through the features of both platforms and found some interesting...

One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…

By John Ward / March 9, 2015 / 12 Comments
... and I have no idea what it is. I used to blog actively on my tutorial site, TeamTutorials. In it's prime the site would see over 100k page views per month. Even in the prime the site barely met...

Are Products the Road to Prosperity?

By John Ward / May 13, 2015 / 1 Comment
A few weeks ago a wrote a somewhat popular post about my past experiences trying to make money online. I went through the ups and downs of working as an affiliate promoting other people's products. At the conclusion of the...

Regular Expression Converter for Watson Explorer Engine

By John Ward / August 23, 2019 / 0 Comments
Sometimes it's useful to extract data from a Watson Explorer content node using regular expressions. In this post, I'll show you how to extract data using a regular expression and create a new content node for that specific data. To...
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IBM Watson Discovery Fundamentals Training

By John Ward / October 28, 2020 / 0 Comments
I'm excited to announce that I've released my first course on Udemy titled IBM Watson Discovery Fundamentals. This course is designed to give business and technical users a good high-level overview of the IBM Watson Discovery service. What is IBM...
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IBM Watson Explorer Connector List

IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components include many out-of-box connectors for various types of data sources including web, filesystems, shares, databases and content management systems. This allows Watson Explorer (WEX) to be a very versatile tool for ingesting and indexing from multiple data sources into a single search application. Here is a listing of the out-of-box Watson Explorer connectors.

  • Files
  • SMB Fileshares
  • URLs
  • URLs with Authentication
  • Alfresco
  • Alfresco Local Site Groups
  • CCS Collection
  • CMIS
  • Confluence
  • Confluence Users
  • CS Ontolection
  • Database (Custom SQL)
  • Database (Keyed)
  • Documentum
  • Documentum Users
  • Email (Exchange via WebDAV using Two mode refresh with LDAP)
  • Email (Exchange via Webdav using Two mode refresh)
  • Email (Exchange via WebDAV with LDAP)
  • Email (Exchange via WebDAV)
  • Email (IMAP)
  • ENOVIA MatrixOne
  • FileNet P8
  • IBM Connections
  • IBM Domino (8.5.3 – 9.0.1)
  • IBM Domino (9.0.2+)
  • IBM Domino Groups (8.5.3 – 9.0.1)
  • IBM Domino Groups (9.0.2+)
  • IBM MDM Standard Edition Connector
  • IBM MDM Standard Edition Entity Relationships
  • IBM MDM Standard Edition Security
  • IBM WCM
  • IO SharePoint
  • LDAP
  • Oracle WebCenter Content (Stellent/UCM)
  • Oracle WebCenter Content Users
  • Salesforce
  • Salesforce Users
  • SAP KM
  • SAP KM Users
  • Sharepoint
  • TEMPLATE
  • Files modified by date
  • Seeds only
  • URLs (archiving)
  • URLs extracted from a URL

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I've been in working in the tech space since about 2004. I've spent time working with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Advertising technology.