What Will Vicarious Facebook Check-Ins Get Advertisers? by Laurie Sullivan

RealNetworks VP Bill Hanks checked in to the Mercer Island Country Club on Facebook Places Saturday. It worked great, expect for one problem. He did it from his backyard tree house about three blocks away. ...Read the whole story

  • Appolicious Adds New Yahoo, Android Sites, Expands Search by Mark Walsh

    After entering into a partnership with Yahoo in April, social-flavored app directory Appolicious is building on the alliance with a new property dedicated to Yahoo apps. And highlighting the rapid rise of Google Android's platform, the startup has also revamped its site for Android apps and introduced its own Android app. ...Read the whole story

  • AT&T Business Directory Relaunches With Search And Social Focus by Laurie Sullivan

    AT&T's business directory reentered the online market Thursday with the launch of its new Web site, complete with geo-location targeting, social services through Facebook and partnerships all with the aim of turning the portal into a community. The focus remains on local businesses and partners. ...Read the whole story

  • SEOmoz Tool Moves Into BrightEdge SEO Platform by Laurie Sullivan

    BrightEdge has integrated the SEOmoz Linkscape index of 450 billion links to provide marketers a list of the exact backlinks competitors use to rank above the fold in organic search results. The companies plan to announce the deal this week. ...Read the whole story

  • telecom AT&T Biz Book Relaunches With Search, Soc. Focus by Laurie Sullivan

    AT&T's business directory reentered the online market Thursday with the launch of its new Web site, complete with geo-location targeting, social services through Facebook and partnerships that turn the destination into a community. The focus remains on local businesses and partners. ...Read the whole story

  • IBM Builds Search Engine, Redefines Analytics Tools by Laurie Sullivan

    IBM has created a search tool that allows North Carolina State University to crawl through massive amounts of Web data on blogs, forums, reports, industry related news portals and government Web sites. Similar to a search engine bot, the query gathers data and produces a short list of potential investors for projects. ...Read the whole story

It's About The Consumer, Stupid! by Rob Griffin

Value is created by the end consumer, and everything flows back up the food chain from there. This seems really simple, but all too often this gets over-thought and muddled with the confusion of one's organizational place within the food chain. History has seen it before, and our industry is rich in change and opportunity with lots of exposed risk ...More

  • Drilling For Information: The Evolution Of Search by Chris Copeland

    The problem with search is that the object of the game is not to search. Hide and Seek is a game about being found. Where search today fails us is that it is still very much about the hunt -- and not the kill. ...More

  • How Our Brains are Wired to Read by Gord Hotchkiss

    How do we read? How do we take the arbitrary, human-made code that is the written word and translate it into thoughts and images that mean something to our brain, an organ that had its basic wiring designed thousands of generations before the appearance of the first written word? What is going on in your skull right now as your eyes scan the black squiggly lines that make up this column? ...More