Brynn Marie Evans

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Social shopping: Putting the emotion back in e-commerce

5 Dec 2009 – 11:49

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on December 4, 2009, as a guest author. What are you going to buy this holiday season? Gift cards aren’t very personal, but friends’ recommendations can be. Richard MacManus recently covered the trends in e-commerce over the past decade. He noted that Amazon and eBay have dominated the online [...]

By brynn | Posted in social search, sxd | Also tagged e-commerce, kaboodle, recommendation service, runtoshop, social search, social shopping, sxd, thisnext | Comments (1)

Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

22 Nov 2009 – 16:09

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author. With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if [...]

By brynn | Posted in social, social search | Also tagged bing, collaborative search, google, question-answering, social networking, social search, sxd, yahoo | Comments (2)

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 [...]

By brynn | Posted in social search | Also tagged bing, google, social networking, social search, spam, twitter | Comments (3)

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 [...]