Tag Archives: aardvark

On why people ask questions on social networks

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 [...]

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

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 [...]