Branding: Search VS. Social? How About Search AND Social?

With the rapid emergence and adoption of social media as a marketing tool, today’s marketers have been spending a significant amount of their time leveraging social media channels with customer interaction, collaboration, and idea generation being the main incentives for them to jump on such the social media bandwagon.

Despite all that, search engines are still the king when it comes to online marketing for the following reasons: Read more of this post

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Bing and Facebook to make Traditional Search more Social

Microsoft and Facebook announced a new partnership to accomplish what I tried to do with my company, Searchles (Search + Circles reference to circle of friends) I was heading from 2006 – 2008 – Building social search that  brings “Like” data and profile search to Bing.

It’s common sense! People will more likely to use Bing if they know their search results will b more relevant because their peer network will be included. Filtering the signal from the noise. Read more of this post

Have you tried the new Google “Instant Search”?

Google launched Instant Search yesterday, a new feature that begins displaying search results as you begin typing a search term, using algorithms to guess what word is likely being typed.

What’s the big deal? Google Instant saves the average searcher two to five seconds per search.

I tried it and I think it still needs some work, like when you are done typing have the drop down box disappear so you can see your results first before resuming typing. But overall, Google Instant is very entertaining. Read more of this post

Digital East 2010 Networking Event in Tysons Corner


Join hundreds of Internet executives, online marketers, web strategists, bloggers, entrepreneurs and investors at Digital East 2010 to get the latest in best practices on a wide range of Internet marketing and business topics.

Dozens of industry thought leaders and innovators will discuss best practices in areas such as Social Media, Online Marketing, Cloud Computing, Web Analytics, Mobile, Ecommerce, Online Reputation Management, Association/Non-Profit Web Marketing, Search, Online Video and Email marketing among others. Read more of this post

CIA and Google Invest on Real-time Web Monitoring and Search



Indeed, Washington D.C. is being Googlized and the city is being painted blue, red, green, and yellow by Google. It was just a few days ago I blogged about Google’ security clearance to take the Government to the cloud, they just joined forces with the CIA’s In-Q-Tel investment arm to invest in a real-time Web monitoring firm called Recorded Future. The investments believed to be under $10 million each. Read more of this post

Ta-dah!!! Google’s Nexus One Finally Landed! Translation?


Unlike other mobile handset vendors, Google offers many other goodies online – search, Google wave, Google Voice, email, and more. So, If their handset is as good as they claim it is, I believe they will significantly shake up the Smartphone business model.

Referring to my previous coverage of the Google’s Nexus One Smartphone, the phone is finally out with their own Android mobile operating system and ready for you to purchase on Google’s website. Ironically, the release is exactly on 25th year anniversary of my arrival to the great city of Washington, DC. Not sure it means anything though :-) maybe they send me a free phone? :-)

Price tag: $179 with a two-year T-Mobile contract, or on its own for $529 without signing on for a specific carrier service; the Nexus One will also be available from Verizon Wireless and Vodafone sometime in the spring. Any GSM network SIM card can be inserted into the device. Such flexibility may prove attractive to enterprises with widely dispersed or multinational workers.

The phone is designed in close partnership with manufacturer HTC. It features a 3.7-inch OLED display; a trackball with multi-colored LED that will be used for notifications; a 5-megapixel camera; stereo Bluetooth; and active noise cancellation. It will offer voice activation for all text fields on the phone, including for creating email and Twitter status updates.
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