Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Launch is one week away. We're really looking forward to getting the site out there and letting the users dictate the direction of the site and seeing them (hopefully) build our search database into a really helpful search solution. It'll be fun to get out of this development mode and into more of a growth mode, with your help.
Some interesting blogs out there dealing with community search. In SearchViews, Anthony Iaffaldano discusses the up-and-coming domination (prediction) of community based searching, and the major problems associated with Google's Page Rank. "Yahoo!'s definitely got it right if their effort is to redefine web-search, moving away from the algorithmic methods defined by Google..." and "...this new "Web 2.0"-titled wave of social networking, social bookmarking and wiki-style folksonomies represents a move towards the more collaborative global community first described in Howard Reingold's seminal book from 1991 "The Virtual Community". There, the man known as the "first citizen of the Internet" spoke of true online communities defined and constructed by the participants, with the users as architects to the web... ...Google may always form the basis for search algorithms, but the new guard will create an Internet that more closely reflects the contents we create online, and how those contents mirror our personal interests, values and connections..." Well, we at PreFound.com couldn't have said it better ourselves. Well, actually, we couldn't have said it nearly as well as Mr. Iaffaldano just did. Check out his excellent blog at http://searchviews.com .
Meanwhile, over on Charlene Li's Blog (http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli), she was discussing the del.icio.us acquisition the other day and had some interesting things to say, "...The key: making del.icio.us and tagging accessible to users. It took me a while to “get” del.icio.us, (and the URL still isn’t easy for me to type!) The key problem is this is not an interface that my mother – or for that matter, most of my techie friends – understands...". As everyone who reads this blog knows, that's exactly what PreFound.com is trying to do; make tagging sites easy to understand and use. We really want to be part of the solution.
Thanks for hanging with us! Just one more week to go.
Some interesting blogs out there dealing with community search. In SearchViews, Anthony Iaffaldano discusses the up-and-coming domination (prediction) of community based searching, and the major problems associated with Google's Page Rank. "Yahoo!'s definitely got it right if their effort is to redefine web-search, moving away from the algorithmic methods defined by Google..." and "...this new "Web 2.0"-titled wave of social networking, social bookmarking and wiki-style folksonomies represents a move towards the more collaborative global community first described in Howard Reingold's seminal book from 1991 "The Virtual Community". There, the man known as the "first citizen of the Internet" spoke of true online communities defined and constructed by the participants, with the users as architects to the web... ...Google may always form the basis for search algorithms, but the new guard will create an Internet that more closely reflects the contents we create online, and how those contents mirror our personal interests, values and connections..." Well, we at PreFound.com couldn't have said it better ourselves. Well, actually, we couldn't have said it nearly as well as Mr. Iaffaldano just did. Check out his excellent blog at http://searchviews.com .
Meanwhile, over on Charlene Li's Blog (http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli), she was discussing the del.icio.us acquisition the other day and had some interesting things to say, "...The key: making del.icio.us and tagging accessible to users. It took me a while to “get” del.icio.us, (and the URL still isn’t easy for me to type!) The key problem is this is not an interface that my mother – or for that matter, most of my techie friends – understands...". As everyone who reads this blog knows, that's exactly what PreFound.com is trying to do; make tagging sites easy to understand and use. We really want to be part of the solution.
Thanks for hanging with us! Just one more week to go.
