Things On Top is a professional blog on search, usability and semantic technologies. The people writing for this blog are all experienced professionals with considerable experience designing and implementing enterprise search solutions, all within their particular field of expertise.
This is Things On Top, and we write about the search business – and it’s a lot more interesting and diverse than you might have thought!
Vegard Sandvold is a Norwegian UX designer, information architect, CSS hacker and part-time blogger. He lives and works in Oslo where he designs and develops large-scale enterprise search solutions for Comperio. Connect with Vegard on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Lene Pettersen works as a concept developer and senior advisor at Bouvet ASA. She holds a Bachelor degree (hovedfag) in Social anthropology from University of Oslo, within cognitive anthropology, where she studied representations communicated through televison and wanted to explore theories of semantics, semiotics, reception analysis and other linguistic relatives during her fieldwork. After finishing her "hovedfag" she studied hypermedia and saw lots of close relations to well known fields as hyper-text, non-linearity, time & space o.a. She also studied film- and mediascience at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and holds regularly lectures about our surrounding world and ways of grasping and bringing meaning to reality.
Enthusiastic Decision Facilitator for large and complex organisations, helping Buyers make business decisions aligned with their culture and system criteria, including Facilitation training and enablement for Partners and Alliances based on Sharon Drew Morgens "Selling with integrity", and Buying Facilitation paradigm.
I work as Project Manager on Search Technology at NHST Media Group, a leading business news provider. I have experience from an extensive range of search projects as senior consultant in Comperio and developer in IntelliSearch. I'm also certified on FAST technology. Say hi on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Truls Berg is one of Norway's most profiled IT professionals, having more than 20 years experience within the IT business - as a company founder, CEO, and business developer. He has authored the book "Informasjonshavet – en overlevelsesguide for morgendagens kunnskapsmedarbeidere" (norwegian only), and is frequent invited to give lectures. He is also a regular columnist in Computerworld.