I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out. Looks pretty good. A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349)
I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s an interesting result nonetheless. Certainly activity in this space is really picking up.
I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search. But I guess I should. MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…
With the start of the new year, Conversations resumes with a slate of interesting guests and topics already scheduled.
The two regular readers of this blog may wonder where I’ve been the past month since I managed only one post in December. Long story short, I was buried with tasks both at work and at home. For some nutty reason, I decided to move my house and my office the week between Christmas and…
Steve Rubel points to a Pew statistic that shows 5 percent of users take advantage of RSS feeds. That’s obviously a number that shows the technology is in its very early stages. The interesting thing to consider here is how RSS might impact politics in a few years. For example, it could be used as…
Stop what you’re doing (including reading this blog) and read this: 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company. Charlie from Union Square Ventures hits the nail on the head. He put a lot of my own philosophy to "paper" just in a much cleaner, clearer way. Must reading for any entrepreneur or anyone…
Telecom Asia – Ringtones and caller ringbacks get personal: Nametones are not that different from "true tones" that wireless subscribers with MMS-enabled handsets can download and use as either ringtones or caller ringback tones. But instead of a song having its usual lyrics, a nametone seamlessly integrates a user’s name into the song.