Social search behavior is now generally agreed to be common enough that companies like Google are buying up companies like Aardvark, and academic researchers are asking good questions about the value of networks for question-answering (Q-A). I have done a bit of research in this area myself, and so I was quite pleased to read [...]
By brynn
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Also posted in research, sxd
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Tagged aardvark, google, microsoft, paper, research, search, social interaction design, social network sites, social networking, social search, sxd
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This just in! Will Evans and I are putting on a design workshop in San Francisco around the theme of enterprise social search. The workshop will be an all-day affair on Friday May 7 at the Bolt | Peters offices, near the Civic Center. Detailed information and registration can be found here: http://socialsear.ch Why Enterprise [...]
My first-ever panel at SxSW went pretty well! The point was to cover the basics of social search: what it is, what it isn’t, who’s working on it and getting it right, etc. The panel consisted of: me Max Ventilla (Aardvark) Ash Rust (OneRiot) Scott Prindle (Crispin Porter) Marc Vermut (fabulous moderator!) It was in [...]
By brynn
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Tagged aardvark, ashrust, brynnevans, crispinporter, marcvermut, maxventilla, oneriot, panel, scottprindle, social search, socialnetworks, sxsw, sxsw2010
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I now have a translation of the dutch article about social search! It was done by a very generous Dutch woman, Joyce Brouwers (also on Twitter). Thank you so much, Joyce! This was really my first interview with a journalist, so it’s interesting to see how some of my thoughts were spun in a certain [...]
I was contacted by a dutch journalist who’s writing an article on the merits of social interaction versus search engines. She read a paper of mine and emailed me with two questions. I thought it’d be useful to post my reply publicly: First, do you think search engines making use of social networks will improve [...]
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