Category Archives: social search

Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

28 Oct 2009 – 12:32

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author. Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed [...]

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Social search panel at SXSW’10

17 Aug 2009 – 19:34

Sanjay Kairam and I submitted a beginner’s panel proposal on social search to SXSW’10. But in order to present the panel, we need to get a lot of community votes! Even if you’re not going to SXSW next year, you can vote and your vote will count! Click here to vote! A short description of [...]

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Rethinking Social Relevancy Rank: What’s Missing?

28 Jul 2009 – 11:33

Although I’m working from San Francisco on independent projects this summer, the social search issue remains at the forefront of my mind. I read an insightful essay by Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb a few weeks back describing how searches could be filtered by social groups to provide more relevant results listings. I agreed with his [...]

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Do your friends make you smarter? Exploring social interactions in search

12 Jun 2009 – 12:48

Thanks to Chris Messina for filming this video during my 3rd year talk (end-of-year presentation to my department)! The slides are available here. Brief summary: in this talk I present some work that I’ve done (with collaborators at PARC) related to social search, or how social interactions and social resources help individual users during search [...]

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summary of the sensemaking workshop (CHI ’09)

6 Apr 2009 – 19:52

I attended a great workshop at CHI ’09 this weekend on sensemaking—a term used to describe the process of trying to make sense of information, data, experiences, etc. Through the process of making sense of stuff, we solve problems, make new insights, or develop an understanding (or new framework) that can be applied in other [...]

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