Tag Archives: google

Joining Google

8 Jun 2011 – 9:10

My life has been adrift in adventures over the last few months since I left my startup. It’s been wonderful, fulfilling, and challenging. I took on my first info viz project with a client; ran a few gamestorming workshops; dabbled in iOS design…and organized two conferences: SketchCamp (May 28, 2011) and Overlap (coming up this [...]

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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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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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The Googling of the future that you do with your friends

17 Feb 2010 – 20:58

I don’t actually know what the title of this article is, but Google translate tells me that this: “Het Googlen van de toekomst doe je met je vrienden” translates to this: “The Googling of the future that you do with your friends”. If anyone out there speaks Dutch and wants to provide a translation for [...]

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Morning commute [Comic]

8 Feb 2010 – 10:30

This is a short comic based on my experience a few weeks back when I got stuck in bad traffic on my way to a meeting with a friend at Google. I decided to drive 280 South from San Francisco and then cut across the peninsula to reach Google (much closer to 101). I figured [...]

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