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Archive for February, 2008

Don’t Let “Too Much Information” Tarnish Your Brand

Friday, February 29th, 2008

I was approached by a friend with an idea. It went along the lines of “What if we get a group together to promote this cause…” and from that point on my imagination soared with what-ifs and can-we’s.

And I wondered about the can of worms we might be opening.

Those of you in Facebook know from experience that when someone who is your “friend” joins a cause, everyone gets a notice about it. After awhile, we begin to get a sense of what our friends are interested in, besides work. We can gauge how well matched we are, how different we might be from each other and see sides of friends we never knew about. (more…)

Marissa Mayer Talks Social Search

Friday, February 1st, 2008

VentureBeat talked to Google’s Marissa Mayer, vice president of Search Products & User Experience, about Google’s future: specifically about their future in social search.

VentureBeat notes that as recently as August, Mayer “said social search hasn’t shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it.”
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