Category Archives: social search

Social search can’t be solved by an algorithm (part deux)

24 May 2011 – 15:21

Just a few weeks ago, I shared the debut of a new book, Dancing with Digital Natives; I wrote the first chapter: When Facebook comes to work. Today I’m happy to announce another book, Designing Search (by Greg Nudelman) that I also have a small contribution in. It’s a 3-page “sidebar” called: Social search can’t be [...]

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On why people ask questions on social networks

24 Apr 2010 – 19:05

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 [...]

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Enterprise social search: a design workshop in San Francisco

19 Apr 2010 – 8:07

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 [...]

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It takes two to tango: review of my social search panel

17 Mar 2010 – 7:42

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 [...]

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Dutch article about social search (quoting me!)

3 Mar 2010 – 11:42

I now have a translation of  the dutch article about social search! It was done by a very generous Dutch woman, Joyce Brouwers (formerly at DNV-CIBIT, 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 [...]

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