Last Fall, I met and became fast friends with a couple of guys building some “next-gen” (my words) stuff in the social media space. They’re still at it, and still in stealth mode, so no names today. Anyway… they were…

Netflix has long advocated that one of their key differentiators is their proprietary Cinematch movie recommendation engine, fueld by dozens of ratings (or in my case, 725+ ratings) by millions of subscribers. Today, Yahoo! released a movie recommendation service on…

Andy Beal has, at least in my aggregator, a scoop on talk of how Microsoft will rank bids in their pending search engine marketing marketplace. Paraphrasing Matt Lydon, Senior Sales Director of Search, MSN in a MarkterToday article: “Question: What…

“Comprehensive Local Search” may be a stretch (as I haven’t actually played with the product yet)… but from the snipets Battelle just published over on Searchblog, it sounds like A9 Yellow Pages (90 degree photos [45 degree in the case…

Well how cool is (answer: very)! KRON4, a local Bay Area TV station, is holding a Blogger Meet-up at their offices in San Francisco. They’ve found 278 local bloggers to invite directly… but the event is open to all. I’ll…

Amazon.com is known to have a great internal multi-variate test environment, allowing it to selectively roll-out and measure the effect of new features and designs. Tonight, I got some quality time with their latest home page redesign (that, or it’s…

Well, I specifically excluded Google’s MT work from my coverage of their well orchestrated PR event yesterday, as I wanted to give it special treatment. (Can you tell I’m enjoying my new found bandwidth?!) I wanted to tie in my…

Bringing a couple of threads together here… We all know about Microsoft’s mainstream blogging effort, MSN Spaces. Late last night, The Blog Herald pointed to a piece by Netcraft about a new server-side blogging solution that Microsoft is distributing: “Microsoft…

This will be old news to some of you, but I’m still digging out… hopefully some will get something out of this… I played around with AOL’s new beta browser a couple of days ago, hoping to get a sense…

Some folks were smart enough to review the web-cast preso slides ahead of the presentation (they seem to be offline now), thereby learning about “MyGoogle”, which is expected to launch as a Labs offering by days end. (Surely others are…