Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search" (3)
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Augmented Social Cognition (4)
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Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. They hardly ever talk about the social interactions that occurs around search. I think this is just plain wrong.Brynn Evans and I recently conducted research asking web users their experiences of using search engines on the web. We conducted a type of survey called Critical Incident Survey, where we asked them to recall the last time they did a search on ...
Google’s Brave New World (1)
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Taggzilla Increases Your Website Traffic (4)
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I was reading an interesting post about what link building today is really all about… building relationships. Eben Pagan talks about this a lot in his teachings and systems. His main goal is to provide them such valuable content they’ll have no choice but to link to it. He does this instead of having some cheap looking banner ad that rarely gets clicked on. His goal is to have an extremely valuable editorial content piece ...
The Future of Search According to Google (1)
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Google VP Marissa Mayer talked about the future of search on the Google blog this afternoon. Mayer apparently spent Saturday keeping track of all the things that came up in conversations that she wished she could search for. The result was a long list of questions ranging from “Which school has a team called the Banana Slugs?” to “What are the dance steps to the Charleston?” to “What kind of bird is that flying over ...
Social Search Gaining Steam (2)
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This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Social Search Gaining Steam Social search directories, basically search engines that allow members to rate and review listings, are getting more and more popular as people move their Internet surfing mobile. Getting restaurant reviews by zip code when you’re out with friends or finding a veterinarian when traveling has become a one button task on the newest generation of phones - of course, then just push another button and ...
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Kevin Polley said:
From and SEO and marketing perspective it's obvious that we are heading (if we are not already there) into (even more) interesting times.
Using Social Media to track Hurricane Gustav (2)
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I love hearing interesting ways people are using Social Media, and the Ning site put up today to help report news on Hurricane Gustav is a brilliant use of the tools available. The site will aggregate content from a variety of sources, including; Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Utterz, Technorati, etc.- all you have to do is tag the item gustav. Kudos to Andy Carvin for starting it and for everyone participating/contributing to help educate folks in ...
Me.dium Follows Microsoft into IE8 Beta 2 (5)
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Looking forward to spicing up your Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 installation with social goodness? Me.dium, a self-described social software company, will be standing aside the likes of Facebook, Yahoo, and eBay for Microsoft’s newest browser launch today. Me.dium’s role is essentially to, among other things, deliver a “crowd-powered” discover-share mechanism first touted at Microsoft’s MIX08 conference earlier this year. Indeed, Me.dium is no freshman to IE8 or the broader Web browser market. Mashable’s Kristen ...
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Brandon LeBlanc said:
Another really cool Accelerator for IE8 from Me.dium!
Me.dium Follows Microsoft into IE8 Beta 2 (4)
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Looking forward to spicing up your Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 installation with social goodness? Me.dium, a self-described social software company, will be standing aside the likes of Facebook, Yahoo, and eBay for Microsoft’s newest browser launch today. Me.dium’s role is essentially to, among other things, deliver a “crowd-powered” discover-share mechanism first touted at Microsoft’s MIX08 conference earlier this year. Indeed, Me.dium is no freshman to IE8 or the broader Web browser market. Mashable’s Kristen ...
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Brandon LeBlanc said:
Another really cool Accelerator for IE8 from Me.dium!
Mechanical Zoo's Aardvark to make Lazyweb as hard as possible [Startups] (1)
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I hope VCs are realistic about any search startup's chances against Google at this stage. Cuil's traffic withered shortly after launch. Another gang of Google graduates at The Mechanical Zoo have revealed scant details of their plans with the announcement of Aardvark. The short version: Rather than asking a search engine questions, you ask your friends instead. Other than that, the social-search-or-something product remains a cryptid. Sounds more like a rival to Yahoo Answers than ...
Wikia Search Launches Evolution Toolbar (3)
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Wikia Search has launched a new Firefox toolbar which they call Wikia Evolution. Wikia Evolution is available for download and offers an easy to way to add pages to the Wikia Search project. Here's how the Wikia Evolution toolbar works once installed. When you search on Google, Yahoo, etc. or view any Web page, a new set of options will be displayed (see the sample below). The options allow you to add the page to ...
Wikia Search Launches Evolution Toolbar (1)
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Wikia Search has launched a new Firefox toolbar which they call Wikia Evolution. Wikia Evolution is available for download and offers an easy to way to add pages to the Wikia Search project. Here's how the Wikia Evolution toolbar works once installed. When you search on Google, Yahoo, etc. or view any Web page, a new set of options will be displayed (see the sample below). The options allow you to add the page to ...
Why Cuil is Like Toilet Paper (3)
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Earlier this week a new search engine launched to the world. The name of the engine is Cuil (pronounced Cool) and there are great reviews on Search Engine Land and GigaOm. Danny from Search Engine Land notes that Cuil is pushing four main features of the search engine: Big web index, Unique relevance algorithm, Unique results display and Privacy. I've created a short video below to discuss why Cuil is like toilet paper. The bottom ...
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Nate said:
Switching costs in search are quite high nowadays. Some may argue the media bias toward Google has also influenced people's thoughts in the same manner some have argued that the media has influenced politics. For instance, there has been a mainstream media blackout toward certain presidential candidates (e.g. Ron Paul).
Search Google, MSN, and Yahoo and Make Money With Scour (1)
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There’s a new search service called Scour (formerly known as AfterVote) making its (beta) debut. If all goes as planned, it’ll have lots of people talking. ‘If’ being the word to watch. The description given to Scour is three-fold. First, it searches the top engines on the Web - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - and offers by default a mixture of results from all. Underneath those basic functions, it presents users with the ability to ...
FriendFeed Sewing Up Search Better than Google? (2)
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I just want to apologize in advance for putting out yet another article revolving around FriendFeed. I say this because not only have I heard from a large number of non-FriendFeed converts that they’re tired of hearing about FriendFeed, but I’m almost sick of hearing myself talk about it. This doesn’t necesarily diminish my own love of the service, but FriendFeed is taking on an inordinately large amount of press from folks in the Web ...
Keep Tabs on Your Web Presence with Addict-O-Matic [Search Engines] (1)
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Let's face facts—you're probably Googling yourself on a regular basis, whether for pure ego satisfaction or monitoring of your professional image online. New search aggregator Addict-O-Matic just happens to be great for seeing how you "look" online, as it focuses on returning results from the top social networking sites, Web 2.0 services, and blog-watching services. Of course, it's also a great tool for monitoring a topic or another person across the web's wide expanse, but ...
Track and Search FriendFeed Updates with Alert Thingy [Featured Download] (1)
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Windows/Mac/Linux with Adobe AIR: Keep updates on all your friends' social network activities with Alert Thingy, an application for Adobe's AIR platform that brings FriendFeed functionality to the desktop. We've shown that social aggregator site FriendFeed can make it faster and easier to keep tabs on friends, and while you could track those updates with a private RSS feed, Alert Thingy lets you keep it in an buddy-list-like window, available for quick browsing and, best ...
Search Forums and Communities Around the Web (1)
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Now you can find things that even Google doesn't have. Forums and other online communities are full of helpful and useful information. Sometimes you want more than just a dictionary definition of something, you want to read about personal accounts and find out what other's have done in your situation. Twing lets you search for all the personal information and first hand accounts you can handle. They search through forums, online communities and other sites ...
Скажи мне кто твои друзья, и я дам тебе релевантную информацию. (1)
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По крайней мере, к этому идет мир social media. Я не скоро устану повторять цитату одного из моих кумиров: “Реклама будет становиться все более и более таргетированной, пока не исчезнет совсем. Ведь идеально таргетированная реклама - это просто информация. И это хорошо!”. Сказал это Dave Winer, один из старейших блоггеров и идеологов RSS. Недавно Marissa Meyer, вице-президент Google по части поиска, дала интервью VentureBeat, одному из авторитетнейших теххх-СМИ. Ничего сверхнового для нас она не сказала, ...
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All systems nominal. We are go for launch! This morning, Twingly is live to the public audience. I’m proud and awed by the effort put down by our team up to this point, as well as a good darn grateful to all the beta testers that have provided feedback during the beta period. More than 3500 people have participated. Twingly.com now covers over 30 million blogs all over the world but we focus on being ...Shared by Håkan Gustavsson, Sweden (20)Contribute comment
