It's been a hectic day...and I'm just trying to get a quick post in before dinner and after the Everglades Tour..which was very cool! Some of the things that stood out today: Started the day with the introduction of some new intelligence tools ...

Gord Hotchkiss didn't waste anytime in putting his mark on my Buzz-o-meter. In his opening remarks, Gord planted some seeds for what he hoped would be recurring themes throughout the summit. Gord pointed to the concepts of Community and ...

Don't you just hate it when you are moderating a panel and there's a panel happening at the same time that you'd like to attend? Well. that happened to me this AM. Here I was, moderating the click fraud panel, while the video seo panel was going on...

Top Rank's Lee Odden is also blogging the conference this week. Here are some excerpts of his interview with Search Engine Summit emcee Gord Hotchkiss. What’s different about Search Insider Summit compared to other conferences? Besid...

It may not have been evident to everyone in the room, but David Vise's very smart, funny and inspired keynote conversation with EDVentures Holdings chairman Esther Dyson, in which he adopted different persona, was a total surprise to Esther. With...

That last post got me thinking... the tricky thing about buzzwords is that they are so often taken and used outside of any appropriate context. That's how you know when a buzzword is really hot -- when everyone and their mother starts dropping it in ...

Esther Dyson and David Vise take the stage, with David doing a little role playing, notably Bill Gates. When he asks if Microsoft is every going to do search right, Esther tells him to give up and do something else, because they're not going to w...

For the record, I'm David Berkowitz, not Microsoft SVP Steve Berkowitz. There was some confusion during the keynote Q&A. For the record, I'm also not

In no particular order, here are some of the hot topics I've been hearing about so far at the Summit, largely fueled by discussions last night over margaritas (so my memory might be a bit fuzzy): * Google-DoubleClick - what's going to happen? It's f...

After a great reception last night where I had the chance to see some old friends (David Berkowitz, Dan Perry, Lee Odden, Cam Balzer) I'm just desperately trying to finalize what I'm going to be talking about in just over an hour. One of the challeng...