Saga Social Network Targets “Anyone Over 50”

When buying an entry-level vehicle, you’re almost lucky to get a tilt steering wheel.  High-end cars, on the other hand, have tilting and telescoping steering wheels, as well as adjustable pedals.  Similarly, social networks can get tailored to suit the wealthy, and in this case, the wealthy may be a little older than the rest of us.

Yahoo! Product Suggestions

I’ve taken some time over the last few weeks to pay attention to different Yahoo! services. In addition to being an employee I’m a huge Y! service lover, from Upcoming to Del.icio.us, from Music to Widgets, they’ve really built/bought some great products. I thought it would be fun to walk through a few of their products and give them my ‘How I’d Improve This Product’…

The Secret of Writing Good Copy

It would be annoying for me to link to grokdotcom every day, so I don't. But if you don't have it in your regular rotation of RSS feeds, what are you waiting for? Here's a great example—a post that pulls together over a dozen great articles on writing winning Web copy. It's taking some of us a while, but we're finally figuring out that Web…

Trying Semantic Search Yourself

Most of you know that my job focuses on IBM's OmniFind enterprise search and text analytics products. And I've written before about semantic search—I've even written about what semantic search isn't. I keep talking about it because semantic search is probably the easiest to understand application of text analytics.