March 2010

Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends

Brynn Evans, Max Ventilla, Marc Vermut, Scott  Prindle and Ash Rust participated in the panel, “Social Search:  A Little Help from My Friends.”  The session started off with each panelists giving a little background information about their particular area of expertise in social searching.  The panelists threw out phrases such as ‘gathering trends from a […]

The panel, organized by Nova Spivack of Radar Networks, has differing views on the definition of semantics including whether the term should be eliminated all together.  Search and algorithms were a big portion of the discussion and each expressed concerns over the lack of a reliable return rate.  Many searches take place on the web […]

Why Words Don't Work

How does one go about writing on a panel entitled “Blah Blah Blah: Why Words Don’t Work”?  Well, to apply recently learned knowledge, let me draw a picture of my problem: Dan Roam, of Back of the Napkin fame, discussed how verbal thinking has limited our problem solving skills for the past couple of centuries. […]

Imagineering the Future

“It is 6a.m. and you are dreaming of electric sheep,” said Dan Willis, of SapientNitro.  In the imagined future, when one wakes up from dreamland, he or she will simply thrust a hand into the air and digital sensors will project onto the hand an assortment of information including time, weather, family vital information, and […]