Social Media

Following shortly after my recent interview with Steven Marder of Eurekster, I did a follow-up interview with Grant Ryan of Eurekster. The interview with Steven Marder was what I consider an introductory course on social search. The interview with Grant is the advanced course. You can comment on the interview below.

Recently I had the chance to interview Steven Marder of Eurekster. Eurekster is a true pioneer in the field of social search. The interview provides some great insights into the lessons that they have learned so far, and how this space is likely to evolve over time. Check the interview out to learn more. You […]

Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter. It was an engaging conversation about the Twitter phenomena and the future of the site. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: How did you come up with the idea for Twitter? Jack Dorsey: Well, it’s a long story, but for some reason since […]

Tony Ruscoe over at Google Blogoscoped has found out that Google has released a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff. If you have a Google account, this service allows you to get started simply by dragging Google’s Email / Share button onto the bookmark toolbar in your browser. Once there, all you […]

At 11:00 am today, Third Door Media and Search Engine Land will announce a new social news site known as Sphinn. This site will offer users the ability to submit articles about interactive marketing, search, and social media, and then other users can review those articles and vote on them. As with other social news […]

A little over a week ago, I caught up with Seth Godin to talk about the great success of Squidoo. As you might expect, the conversation included a lot of discussion about what makes the web great, and strategies and tactics for making something go viral. Much of Seth’s focus with Squidoo was just that […]

A short while back the folks at SEO Blackhat published a great post called This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record. You might ask what a self-professed “white hat” such as myself was doing rousting around on the SEO Blackhat blog, but the reality is that I am a fan of the SEO Blackhat […]

I had a great discussion with Tomi Poutanen last week about the future of algorithmic and social search. Tomi identified 3 challenges faced by algorithmic search: The size of the web they are searching and indexing Subjective queries, such as “what’s the best hotel in New York” can’t be addressed by algorithmic search The spammers […]

Interesting developments at Flickr and Yahoo! web search. Based on Flickr Interestingness data that the service has been collecting, Yahoo! Web Search is now showing Flickr thumbnails of the most popular photos of popular landmarks when these landmarks are searched on by users. Here are some examples: Machu Pichu Eifel Tower Great Wall of China […]

Aaron Wall offers up some good thoughts on why Most Web 2.0 Companies will Fail. His discussion focuses on the leverage they seem to lack. He ends the post with “The reason most Web2.0 companies will fail is that they are creating entire companies based around a feature to another product while having no market […]

Now that we are over 1 week into the new year, I have decided to take a moment to record six predictions for the year. Here are the new developments I see on our horizon in 2007: The social web revolution(s) will continue and expand, but will not be a panacea for current limitations in […]

As the various predictions come out about people’s projections for 2007, I am beginning to see more and more impressive predictions about what will happen in the social media space. People are projecting that the power of human input will do all manner of incredible things. But there is a basic problem with all this. […]