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Cake is great, Twitter is good, short URLs can die
Twitter is becoming increasingly popular and mainstream. We’ll go into some possible and slightly novel uses of Twitter to route the stream of communication to your site or blog. Twitters short message format creates a focused form of communication, but the tight limit enforces the increased use of shortened URLs, through services like bit.ly... Read More »
FASTforward’09 – Day 2: Vertical Business Strategies
The day kicks off with announcements from Microsoft regarding the search product lineup. The products and licensing models will be simplified and separated into 3 flavors: stand-alone FAST Search for Internet, the heavily emphasized FAST Search for Sharepoint version, and the free version of Search Server Express which has over 100,000 downloads to this... Read More »
FASTforward’09 – Day 1: Get Social
FASTfoward’09 (on Twitter & official blog) kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday with a bang. Over 1000 bright heads were gathered in a football size like room within the never ending halls of the Mirage. This years flavour is “Engage your users” as we are looking at the big picture on search moving forward. ... Read More »
Twittering With Your Customers
Twitter holds a great opportunity for companies to engage in conversation with customers about their products and services. And search is a great technology for discovering people who are twittering about you.
Last week I made a commented to a friends about Protoshare, an application for online collaborating on web design. We were just exchanging... Read More »


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