For the second year in a row, Boing Boing has won best group blog and best blog of the year at the Bloggies! Wow! Here's the site's post….I have to say, being the band manager for such a great site is an honor and a privilege….
Posting may be lighter than usual, but if you are at the conference, please come and say hello!…
Today's Times has a longish piece on search titled "Search Engines Build a Better Mousetrap." The article reviews alternatives to Google. I am quoted in it, but the reporter misheard one key detail: I said "millions" not "billions" in the quote below… John Battelle, who maintains a Web log…
I am quoted in it, but the reporter misheard one key detail: I said “millions” not “billions” in the quote below…
John Battelle, who maintains a Web log about search technology (Searchblog, at battellemedia.com), said innovations like “Block View” showed how dynamically the search companies were taking advantage of new technologies – and new economies.
It's Winter Break, and that means time to pack the kids into our car and head on down the road. Posting will be light……
Qoop, the company behind the Searchblog Print Edition test, is thrilled at how many of you have checked them out since I posted my note last week. So much so, that CEO Bill Murray emailed me and said he wants to lower the price of the book by ten…
Well, yes, in fact! I have a buddy who is involved in Qoop, a very cool new company that makes print editions of online content. It's still very much in beta, but one day he came ambling down my stairs with a big, bound copy of Searchblog, with all…
Well, yes, in fact! I have a buddy who is involved in Qoop, a very cool new company that makes print editions of online content. It’s still very much in beta, but one day he came ambling down my stairs with a big, bound copy of Searchblog, with all the posts from 2004 inside of it. It was really cool to see, and he asked if I would be something of a test case for his company. Why of course I would, I rep
lied. So here you have it (I put a link to this on the left side of the page, it’ll stay there for as long as folks click on it). The price is a bit steep (a bit under $30 – I get about a third of that), but it has something like 100K words, all of them exceedingly wise, of course, and it’s an excellent example of one-off printing – no inventory, no backend warehouses, it’s online to print, and it’s direct. Think about this plus Google Print, for example. Or Flickr. Whoa. In that perspective, I’m honored to be a test case. Long tail, ho!
I'm out of pocket most of the day, heading to NYC….
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped has added me to his long list of email interviews….
My, it's a busy time in the search biz. I'm still in Europe and the schedule is quite demanding here, so my postings will be light. I will have some news tonight, and hope to get to a longer analysis of video search shortly. Meantime, much buzz about this…
A quick heads up – the coming week promises to be a big one in the world of search, if the birds flying around my in box are any indication. However, I am away the entire week in Europe, so posting might be light (I'm told there will be…
A quick heads up – the coming week promises to be a big one in the world of search, if the birds flying around my in box are any indication. However, I am away the entire week in Europe, so posting might be light (I’m told there will be WiFi where I will be, but you never know…). In case any readers might also be there, I’ll be at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is my second trip there – I first went in 2001, but couldn’t afford it over the past few years. This year they have been kind enough to extend me a pass, and I will be posting as I can. On the first day a group of “Young Global Leaders” (how they come up with these names…) will be at a meeting “aimed at establishing a framework for understanding the problems and risks we face in the coming decades and beyond.” I am honored to be one of them, though a bit baffled how it all came about.
The WEF has a blog, as well, though for more personal coverage, you might watch Loic LeMeur’s.
