October is high season for social media events! Here’s our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events scheduled for the month of October. For the full year, see our Calendar of 2010 social media, tech and marketing conferences. We’ve also published a roundup of nonprofit and social change conferences and events for […]
YourVersion: Building recommendations through implicit & explicit behavior
I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference reporting for Yammer.
Dan Olsen is the CEO and co-founder of YourVersion, which Olsen describes as Pandora for real-time web content. Just as you tell Pandora about what music you like, with YourVersion you tell them about what kind of information you like. And in both cases the applications respectively serve up music and news/real-time content to your desktop.
Storify: Make stories using social media
I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco reporting for Yammer.
Almost a full year ago I wrote an analyst report entitled “Real-Time Search and Discovery of the Social Web” (get your copy of the 20-page PDF), and I argued that one of the failures of the value of the real-time web is the lack of editors monitoring the data and then republishing it in a digested form.
Highlights of TechCrunch Disrupt day one
Voice-based search, cloud-based services & much more Ialmost didn’t make it to my first TechCrunch Disrupt because of client work, but I managed to make the trek in, all revved for disruption! Battlefield Session 1 Disruptors The complete list of all Tech Crunch Disrupt presenters showed a wide range of start-ups and business models. A […]
Happy fall! Autumn begins today
A River Walk by FotoFransen Today is the first day of fall. The past few months have been a whirlwind — not sure where the summer went! But we wanted to share our greetings for a wonderful, vibrant autumn (or spring, for our readers down under). Some info about the fall equinox.