David Dalka attends and reports business events and conferences to discover the future of business where technology, organizations and customer exeperience meet. Also serves as emcee, moderator and motivational business keynote speaker.
I’ve upgraded to Podpress 6.7, They’ve been quite busy lately as the last verison I installed in May, 2006. Keep up the great work, Podpress rocks!
Podpress Wishlist:
1. Official Realplayer support – this would solve alot of band with issues for many people.
2. More complete documentation of all these great features. I know there are some great features in this plugin that I’m not even using because I do not know about them!
“We’re experiencing technical difficulties that may prevent your chats from being sent.”
This message appears all too frequently.
This has the potential to be extremely useful to small businesses and disruptive to existing coupon outfits.
Having lock de-icer in my in my bag in August suddenly makes me feel so unpatriotic.
On another note on airplane/airport terrorism and terrorist attacks, does it bother anyone else that they tighten security after the arrests and never before? Yes, some might argue the tip off factor, but couldn’t you do this quietly as a change in procedure? Just thinking out loud here.
In this post on July 20th, I predicted that Google Video would appear on the homepage soon. However, I guessed wrong on it replacing Images. At first, I’m surprised that Froggle was what was removed. After thinking about it more I shouldn’t be, Google Checkout migrates to the back end of process what Froggle did upfront. If there is enough penetration of Checkout, it now makes sense to me that Froggle would be unnecessary.
Maybe they are starting to run the company off of my blog suggestions now… 😉
Tim Mayer opens the session – reviews items from previous session.
Yumio – Yahoo Answers!
Quantifying human knowledge. Yahoo! Answers is a collective site. Better knowledge through people. Y! answers compliments web search, giving results that a user may not think about. Provide content and material that. Culture of sharing. People like to share. Remote connectivity. Impressive growth 12x UU & 25x page views. Audience is segmented by topics/categories. Brand-Specific Channel and Expert Sponsor panel. Showed examples of how Answers functions as a traffic driver from other search engines as pages are indexed.
Del.icio.us – Joshua Schachter – Director
Remember, Share, Discover
Brief overview – nothing new
Flickr – Yumio – her speech was great – but I had to leave the room for a minute.
Talks mainly about social phenomenon of Flikr.
New partnership with Nokia
Trip Planner – Ashish Baldua
Monetization – sponsorship – commoditization – etc
Time – 2.6 words average length, this is lengthening over time
How do you prevent a product from being spammed in Yahoo! Answers?
There are community guidelines. Inappropriate posts are deleted. 24/7 moderation.
Myweb – 3 results from the community. Overlay, this result was saved by Joe Smith – number of saves. Integrating Answers recently into the organic results. People are finding the tests to be additive to their search experience. Chris Sherman followed onto my question by asking about the one box experience versus the additive content. Time indicated this will come with time, but it is something where they need to proceed slowly with caution.
Tim Mayer and his team clearly outdid his peer on this day in terms of communicating a clear vision for social search.
Chris Sherman made introduction speech I cant stress enough that he did a really *amazing* job of planning the session and laying out the issues. Major props.
Social Search goes back to the first days of the Internet.
W3.org – first directory.
Directories were the first forms of social media. Spammers destroyed the first directories with spam.
Future – people will be getting these things right
Talent pool is volunteer and free. The scaling is happening due to people participating.
Types – Shared bookmarks (del.icio.us), tag engines (blogs and RSS) and collaborative directories (Wikipedia).
Types of social search – Personalized verticals and collaborative harvesters.
Popurls.com – combines all news sites like dig, reddit, etc in one place.
Scale and scope will be major, tagging, ambiguity of language, human laziness, lack of controlled vocabulary, and of course…idiots!!!
Spammers – new systems create new opportunities.
Chris Sherman is optimistic about social search but is concerned about some issues. Trust networks, increased personalization, etc are great opportunities
Grant Ryan , Eurester speaks:
Flew in from New Zealand and is tired!
Anyone can create their own search engine with Eurester.
Power to the people – socialization of the search technology. Spidering, Directories, Link Analysis, Swickis
Search engines have done everything to avoid
We are a printing press not a publisher. We can decide how it looks and how to make money. We have created 20,000 search engines.
Monetize the printing press the way you want to – chose what is best for your community.
Swikinomics – How can you create vertical search engines. You can own your own Swicki. Property rights are key to motivate people in any economic system.
Anyone can create a valuable asset based on their knowledge
Existing communities and brands can extend into web search to create valuable services
Anyone can organize information on the Internet and get paid for it.
Tim Mayer, Yahoo!
Launching a search builder today – builder.yahoosearch.com
Search breakthroughs come from untapped authorities and rich new sources of metadata.
Yahoo’s mission – “Enrich peoples’ lives by enabling them to find, use, share and expand all human knowledge.”
Obtain a critical mass or high-quality user generated experience.
Nils Pohlmann, Lead Program Manager, Windows Live Search
Live spaces – new release
Ideas.live.com beta release Windows Live Q&A
Windows Live Local – Maps with tags
Windows Live QnA – sign up as qna.live.com
Questions:
Are the demographics different than in a bookmarking versus answers?
Tim – Del.icio.us is tech influencers. Tails of the tags are more mainstream. Myweb are early adopters. The demographic is younger overall.
Subscribers for a tag, Answers, is about contribute valuable knowledge.
There was a question about paying for bookmarking actions and the panel was in agreement that they are leery of going this route.
Regarding Yahoo! – Tim – Builder.search.yahoo.com – create customized web search. Create customized search experience. Reputation and trust are important!