Search Search Agents: Will Startups or MIT Win Out? Written by Guest Writer Steve Spalding The idea of "Search" is a powerful concept. Whether it's guide based like Mahalo, algorithmically powered like Google or driven by something as close to home as natural language, like Powerset. Where there is information, there is a need to be able to easily sift through it. So far, we have focused our… Guest Author View comments
Facebook Facebook Week Update This week is Facebook Week on Read/WriteWeb. Here we'll re-cap the week so far and see what else is happening on other blogs. Firstly the Read/WriteWeb Facebook Group already has over 400 members, after just a few days. It's open to anyone and you can join here. We're currently looking at what apps to implement to make the group compelling - if… Social Richard MacManus View comments
web Optimize Ad Placements with FoldSpy FoldSpy is a new app that soft-launched yesterday and aims to help web developers optimize ad placements on their websites. Because every browser, operating system, and especially screen resolution will display pages a little different, the "fold" (the part of the website that is visible without needing to scroll) is not the same for every visitor… Josh Catone View comments
Facebook Top 10 Facebook Apps: Media In part 3 of my top 10 Facebook applications series, I will be looking at the top 10 apps that have to do with media. For the most part, these are apps that let users watch, display, look at, and remix video, audio, and photo content. This is a completely subjective list, so not everyone will agree with our picks and I encourage you to debate them… Social Josh Catone View comments
Analysis Competing With Google Search In a previous article, we explained that the pivot of the internet is shifting from search to social interactions. But this doesn't necessarily mean that search is losing its value. After all, don't we still live with previous paradigms like single sign-on and e-commerce? Search is still a crucial paradigm and so all the Internet bigcos… Emre Sokullu View comments