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Social shopping: Putting the emotion back in e-commerce

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 [...]

Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

Will Evans beat me to the punch in getting this post out! Earlier this month, we collaborated on creating a presentation for the Enterprise Search Summit West on “Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search.” It went over pretty well and was fun to deliver! Here is more info for your enjoyment: This is the description [...]

Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

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 [...]

Papel, The Paper Cup [Comic]

The betacup team is working to make known the size and scope of the problem with non-recyclable paper cups. They’re consumed in large quantities, especially for to-go lattes and the sort. And they’re subsequently disposed of in large quantities. In fact, over 58 billion paper cups are thrown away every year. The protagonist in my [...]