The Power of Us

What do our search terms say about us?

Posted by on Dec 18, 2008 in Brands, Skills | 0 comments

The annual list of what the world searches for online has been released.  No real surprises — Britney Spears and Barack Obama top...

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A Dozen “Edutainment” Application Bundles

Posted by on Feb 27, 2008 in Culture | 0 comments

A Dozen “Edutainment” Application Bundles Definition SEARCH WAS THE GREAT NEW FRONTIER. Sodden with copycats, it has become anhydrous....

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Search Working Group is … Working

Posted by on May 3, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

Thanks to the members of the iFOCOS Search Working Group who gathered for a kickoff meeting last week (April 24, 2007) in Santa Clara,...

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From Thinking Machines to thinking about the future of search

Posted by on Apr 24, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

Neil Budde is Editor in chief of Yahoo! News, Finance and Sports, and a member of the iFOCOS Search Working Group. I first became intrigued...

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Make better search; then get people to use it

Posted by on Apr 24, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

Oren Michels is CEO of Mashery. My closest cousin had cancer surgery yesterday. Based on what we (her close family and friends) have...

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The limiting factor for knowledge diffusion is people’s time

Posted by on Apr 23, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

Jeff Given is the IT Operations Manager for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. ...

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iFOCOS Search Working Group Launches

Posted by on Apr 18, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

The discussion at We Media Miami on next-generation search concepts, chaired by Jim Kennedy of The Associated Press, was both vibrant and...

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Search, while dominant, is not very good

Posted by on Apr 18, 2007 in Culture | 0 comments

Jim Kennedy is VP of Strategy for The Associated Press. He is also a member of the iFOCOS Search Working Group, which is holding its first...

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