Not that it was ever gone, people often still like to read off the computer whether it be a newspaper, magazine, book or whitepaper (anyone try reading an entire research report online?, it is tough). And a patent filed in 1996 2006 [thanks to Bill at seobythesea for the correction] may not tell us [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2007’
Social Impact of Search?
Jeremie Miller, founder of Jabber and now CTO at Search Wikia, made an interesting statement during our panel conversation at Defrag.
“Search is going to have the same transforming approach on society as the printing press.”
This is interesting on a couple of levels. First, is it true? Sure search is one of [...]
Defragging the Defrag Coverage
There has been some fantastic coverage of the Defrag conference and I have a great set of notes that I was planning on blogging. So instead of being repetitive, I reviewed the inputs of others and wanted to provide a digest of what I think is some of the solid coverage. I [...]
The Enterprise Outlook is Cloudy
During Defrag, I found myself in an interesting conversation with Jerry Michalski and Andrew McAfee regarding the future of the enterprise. I posited that eventually “the enterprise firewall will fall.” Let’s just say there wasn’t resounding agreement and not enough time to truly deep dive into the very difficult and multi-faceted topic.
Let me [...]
At Defrag Conference!
People say that you know in first few minutes when you are interviewing someone whether it is someone it is you want to continue the dialog with. I think the same goes for conferences: You pretty much know in the first hour whether it was worth the trip.
We are entering our third session and can [...]
