Microsoft bringing collaboration to search
Posted 27 days ago by Peter Twiggs
06/06/2008
Microsoft has rather unexpectedly anounced a Beta of a new product called SearchTogether.This will enable anyone with an MSN Live ID to share commentary on search results... what's even more interesting is that it will not be restricted to Live Search and can be used on other search engines.There is a good example used on the Microsoft Research blog of family members booking a holiday, but you can imagine how this could affect any search where the outcome affects 2 or more people.I can also imagine it being extremely useful for marketing purposes and discussing search rankings with anyone involved. The...
Reputation Management?
Posted about 1 month ago by Peter Twiggs
28/05/2008
One search related practice that has gained significant coverage over the past few months is reputation management. I often find it quite hard to explain the full effect this can have, the following examples should shine some light on the subject: 1. Jimmy Wales AKA Wikipedia founder This should serve as a really good reminder to any well known internet figure on the value of reputation management. After using the rather questionable practice of breaking up with his girlfriend via editing a Wikipedia entry, Jimmy's ex decided to firstly put a t-shirt of his on EBay, this combined with several...
Facebook taking privacy seriously for a change
Posted about 1 month ago by Peter Twiggs
16/05/2008
After all the hype surrounding Google Friend Connect and the implications of a much more integrated social media space, Facebook have pretty much thrown it straight back at Google by blocking Friend Connect from the API. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.” There is more detail on the Facebook developer blog; I for one am...
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