Apr

11

Who’s at Ad:tech next week?

April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

ad:tech San Francisco, the interactive advertising and technology conference and exhibition, starts next week at the Moscone Center. The show blends keynote speakers, topic driven panels and workshops to provide us with the tools and techniques needed to keep up and compete. It has, perhaps, the best show floor in the industry making it […]

Popularity: 67% [?]

Mar

5

Online Marketing Heroes

March 5, 2008 | 8 Comments

Certainly, one has to have a degree of ego involved with starting one’s own blog, after all, these are my thoughts; thoughts I presume are of interest to someone. Sure, perhaps it isn’t really “ego” but, needless to say, I wouldn’t be doing this if I didn’t hope someone cared and derived a modicum […]

Popularity: 100% [?]

Jan

30

Universal Search by Vertical

January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments

Can I take a moment and violate what is perhaps one of the more pervasive of the seven deadly sins? I recently had the honor of playing a role (albeit a bit part) in the release of the first blended vertical search technology. Monday, time based local search engine Zvents released Federated Local […]

Popularity: 39% [?]

Nov

2

Innovative Social Shopping with Bunnybot

November 2, 2007 | 6 Comments

As I shop for the holidays I am repeatedly faced with the same challenge, a discussion that ensues something like this:

- I’d love to get the TiVo Series 2 HD DVR
- That’s the thing that records TV right?
- Um… yes, but you have to make sure it is a Series 2
- Series 2, got it. […]

Popularity: 66% [?]

Sep

11

Finervista: A New Vertical Search Engine

September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In the age of increasingly more specialization in search, it seems there’s another segment getting attention.
The paint isn’t even dry and San Francisco based Finervista seems to have experienced a successful début of an educational search platform. Serving thousands of webcasts through their searchable index, they provide a wonderful resource for business executives, legal professionals, […]

Popularity: 48% [?]

Jul

27

TechCrunch TC9 Download

July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Having spent the last few hours at Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch Meet-Up, I sit here struggling to find some criticism of the event simply for the sake of a buzz worthy post. The fact is, the party was flawlessly executed from logistics to music, drinks to demos, and all with a crowd of industry elite […]

Popularity: 51% [?]

Jul

24

Retail Comparison Shopping

July 24, 2007 | 3 Comments

TheFind has developed a remarkable comparison shopping engine, presenting product listings in a visually appealing, “shopping” familiar design. A female bent puts this vertical engine squarely in a niche market yet their unique approach to comparison shopping is the draw: all but guaranteeing comprehensiveness by searching “every store online” to products, brands, and stores […]

Popularity: 42% [?]

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