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Category Archives: Search
The Great Reconfiguration
The Internet is undergoing a major reconfiguration. No longer is it sufficient for companies to package a value proposition on their website and then drive traffic to it through ads, search engine optimization, and reciprocal links. Today companies must find … Continue reading
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Tagged IIW, IIW2009a, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, VRM, VRM Workshop 2009, VRM2009, VRM2009a
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Paper Prototype Rocks
Last week we used a prototyping technique that has changed the way I look at development: paper prototyping. I had heard a bit about this before and it sounded great… but there’s always such a drive to just start coding! … Continue reading
Farewell Google Notebook, Move over SearchWiki, We need a Search Map
Alas, a noble experiment has been slayed by the relentless hand of corporate focus. Google has announced its web-clipping scrapbook Google Notebook will no longer be actively developed. I’ve mentioned Google Notebook briefly in the past, as a tool for … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced search, Complex Search, Doc Searls, Google, Google Notebook, search map, SearchWiki, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRMWorkshop, VRMWorkshop2009, Wikia
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Leaving the Information Age
Say goodbye to the Information Age. It’s already over. Ok, not over, completely. These things take time. You don’t just end an “Age” in an instant. But take a look around you and you’ll start to see the beginnings of … Continue reading
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John Battelle and Eric Schmidt on Data Silos
Phillip Lenssen at Blogoscoped points to this excellent interview of Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, by John Battelle. Of particular note, at the tail-end of the interview, is the unequivocal assurance by Schmidt that Google will “never trap user data.” Score … Continue reading
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The Google Future
Robert X. Cringely paints an intriguing picture of our future… well, perhaps we should call it Google’s future, since they own it: Google will become our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder. Soon … Continue reading
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Company XYZ Releases Google Killer
This post from Google Blogoscoped is just too funny to ignore. Of course, SwitchBook‘s technology really is going to change everything. It is, after all, about “Complex Search,” which is so much more than just “Search.” đŸ˜‰ Seriously, I think … Continue reading
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Most managers’ info searches are useless
Nancy Gohring at ComputerWorld reports: Managers waste hours every day looking for information that often turns out to be useless, according to a report from consulting firm Accenture Ltd.In a survey of 1,000 middle managers at large companies in the … Continue reading
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