Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia.com will be the first headline Keynote Speaker at the upcoming WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Wikia is a community destination supporting the creation and development of wiki communities on any topic people are passionate about. They currently support over 4,700 communities in more than 70 languages. Part of the free culture movement, Wikia content is released under a free content license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Explore their existing communities or More»

Labels: Search, search engine, social networks, Social Search

Mahalo, the human-powered search engine where users submit links, and whose Chief Technology Office, Mark Jeffrey, will be presenting tonite at the WebGuild, has announced today that they have launched a social networking component to their search service. Called “Mahalo Social“, it offers features which foster community building amongst users who submit links allowing them to make friends and share links with each other.

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Labels: Search, social graph, Social Search

We are very excited at WebGuild to announce the launch of our Social Networking Community exclusively for Web Professionals.
It’s free and allows you to connect with over 30,000 other web professionals.

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Complete profileSign up for an account and add as much or as little information about your self.
Join groups and submit and answer questions.Join groups in your subject area(s) of interest and get and share knowledge with peers via our online discussion board.
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Labels: Local Search, Social Search, web 2.0, WebGuild

Google has launched a link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff. It is very similar to the bookmarking service (Google Bookmarks) released in 2005 and Delicious.
The service allows you to add links to your “shared stuff page” by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser’s “Links” or “Bookmarks” bar or by clicking this Share button, which currently only seems to be available on Google Video but is likely to be made available for embedding on any website.
Upon clicking the icon, a popup allows you to choose whether you want to share a thumbnail image and article preview taken More»

Labels: google, Google Apps, Social Search

Travel search engine SideStep announced the acquisition of social networking site TripUp.com.
User’s visit TripUp.com to gather current information from locals and fellow travelers who act as destination gurus with reviews about restaurants, attractions and places to party. Users also can find trip buddies to plan their travels and members share travel video, journals and photos.
“As travelers look for more information, the best way to get at it is through social communities and social networking,” Rob Solomon, president and CEO, told Brandweek. “The editorial content that is out there in guidebooks is More»

Labels: Social Search, Vertical Search, web 2.0

Angry shareholders voted down proposals to tie executive pay to competitive performance and challenged the company’s human rights policies in China at their annual meeting. The meeting was focused on the past three years and a little about the how the company intends to respond to Google’s growing dominance.
“I am going to sell all my shares!” said Dotty Webber of Sunnyvale, CA. “He was talking about macaroni and cheese and how people like to eat it. There was nothing about their internet strategy. I went to the Google meeting and Eric Schmidt talked about how Google plans to help More»

Labels: Search and Marketplaces, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Tools, Social Search

As the company realizes that it can no longer compete with Google, it is saying the future of web search is history. Yahoo says the model for getting information via the browser is outdated. In the future relevant information will be delivered directly to readers. “The future of the web is about personalization. Where search was dominant, now the web is about ‘me.’ It’s about weaving the web together in a way that is smart and personalized for the user,” said Tapan Bhat, VP, Yahoo!’s Personalised Home Page.
Interestingly, iGoogle is about personalization and Google has been making alot More»

Labels: Local Search, Mobile Search, Search and Marketplaces, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Tools, Social Search, Vertical Search, Web Analytics

If your name does not come up on Google you are nobody according to an article published by the Wall Street Journal.
Today, employers frequently Google their candidate prior to even calling. Interviewers often search to see if what a candidate say on their resume could be verified online. More than 80% of executive recruiters said they routinely use search engines to learn more about candidates, according to a recent survey by executive networking firm ExecuNet. Nearly 40% of individuals have used search engines to look up friends or acquaintances with whom More»

Labels: Search Tools, Social Search, Vertical Search

I was at “The Future of Advertising Conference” at Stanford and Sir Martin Sorrell, Chairman, WPP, the largest advertising holding company shared some interesting stats about the advertising business.
1. WPP has a market share of approximately 25% of the global ad business, annual billings of $60 Billion and yet only $200 M of that is with Google.
2. Google’s revenues are approximately $11 Billion and at $200 M, WPP is one of Google’s largest customers. So Google’s tail is very very long and More»

Labels: Keyword Optimization, Local Search, Search and Marketplaces, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Tools, Social Search, Vertical Search

Olivetti once ruled the office terrain until IBM and Microsoft arrived. The once mighty typewriter company has been reduced to a manufacture of compact discs and printer drives for Microsoft. Disc are dead and Microsoft is in trouble. Viacom the owner of MTV and other TV brands is going through hard times and even more hard times await the company’s future. TV audiences are shifting to the internet, Tivo, cable and other mediums. Following the TV audiences are advertisers. Today, production costs have dropped so much that major studio backing is not necessary More»

Labels: Social Search, web 2.0