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Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

gerry campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:55:51 -0000

Happy to debate, but not with anonymity.

Re: Google Renounces its Greatness in Pursuit of Google+

gerry campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:25:18 -0000

I can give you points on being critical of the source, disregard as you like - but the underlying facts are solid

Re: Real-time search: How a whole ecosystem bit the dust | VentureBeat

gerry campbell — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:12:14 -0000

Jolie - fantastic summary of both the opportunity we all saw and the way the industry played out. There is real-time baked into everything social, and web search has sped up considerably as well.

One brief correction - I was an investor and advisor in Summize. Jay Virdy was CEO from start through acquisition. Jay and the team did the hard work.

Re: Social Search Isn’t Enough

gerry campbell — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:55:20 -0000

Andy - I completely agree. Talking just about search marketing for a moment: when there is a finite query stream, all you need to do is target keywords, expand your terms until the point of diminishing returns (i'm aware this is a gross oversimplification) and you're set. Then you buy those terms and measure ROI. With sharing, liking and other social behaviors driving information discovery, it's not that simple. There's exponentially more data, and even more importantly, the USER is in charge of creating discovery opportunities for their friends. Search engines don't have a deadlock on traffic flow, and therefore the "toll" (CPC's) won't pass through there. It's not that the search game is over, it's that future revenue growth will be elsewhere...

Re: The Twitter Flatline: Why Doesn’t Twitter Grow? [STATS]

gerry campbell — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:00:52 -0000

Greg, you have something you'd like to share? ;-)

Re: You Won't See The Palm Pre On Me

gerry campbell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:02:45 -0000

right. Snap it on the bottom. Or, better yet, isn't that what Bluetooth is about? Try hooking your bluetooth apple kbd up to your iPhone... no dice.

Re: You Won't See The Palm Pre On Me

gerry campbell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:43:45 -0000

Back to hoping for an iphone mini keyboard for me. Will somebody make one please? Like the old thumb board for the palm 5 http://www.amazon.com/Seiko...

Re: The rise of Sensor Media

gerry campbell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:03 -0000

Good point. Worth understanding... there are expressions of status, the wish to be associated with the source...

Re: The rise of Sensor Media

gerry campbell — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:22:01 -0000

aha. it isn't perfectly clear.

The first is expression of thought or emotion - more personal communication. e.g. "want to go get coffee @bob?" or "@bob, I love radiohead's first release"

The second is the expression of information - or news. "The coffee shop at x and y streets is on fire. @bob and I going somewhere else" or "I just ate a burger from burgerworld and got food poisoning"

The best way I know to determine how definite the line is between the two types is to study query logs and resulting clicks. Not readily available data. That's why I am left in the world of hypothesis for the moment.

I have posited that the 2 other types of possible messages are transactional and of entertainment value. Looking to validate...

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:25:45 -0000

Hank - would be happy to talk. I am crushed over the next week, but ping me on Twitter and we can set up a chance to talk.

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:24:11 -0000

Kimbal - thanks for the comment. I have had a look... interesting approach. Sort of reminds me of what Seth Goldstein was doing with AttentionTrust before it evolved into SocialMedia. Sort of... but his was about profiles/privacy and I see you're building an index.

BTW, I feel like we should meet - I heard a lot about you from Jay, Abdur and Greg over the summer...

I will ping you some time soon to talk.

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:23:25 -0000

David - I think you missed the point that the online social graph is a critical ingredient... the physical world is only an illustration...

And getting the signal to noise relationship solved is the crux of the issue. In the simple query-response world we would simply call it "relevance" or "precision at X."

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:22:36 -0000

Nice post. Good clear thinking...

A couple of quick responses:
- Agreed: Twitter is by no means the only source of realtime-ness. No way.
- Can Google (or Yahoo, or...)build a product that addresses this? Yes. No doubt.
- Should we sit and wait until they do? Nope.
- Don't miss my point that expressed information, vs published, benefits from a social graph for prioritization/interpretation

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:02:21 -0000

Interesting point, but experience tells me otherwise.

Trees don't grow to the sky. Revenue generation/growth is an endless cycle of innovation, discontinuity and cannibalism.

It's the single-variable management mindset (e.g. revenue-only) that leads to strategically soulless companies - those are the companies that lose touch with their customers and open the door wide for the competition.

Re: Search is broken – really broken.

gerry campbell — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:47:08 -0000

Trevor - thanks for the comment... ping me on twitter and we can talk directly. Would love to have a conversation about your thoughts/experience...

Re: Case Study - CostToDrive.com - Small and clean | luckyrobot.com

gerry campbell — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:43:50 -0000

site nav problem on my part. sorry. the best way to get there today is to click to previous posts and scroll through backward that way. Thanks for the comment.

Re: Darwin, DaVinci and Accelerated Change

gerry campbell — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:38:42 -0000

Craig, the point was not left out accidentally. It was intentionally and respectfully left for interpretation by the reader.

I don't begin to have the answer as to why the genes formed, why Leonardo DaVinci is stands as a towering intellect over everyone else of the time or why the leaders of today are emerging/will emerge.

Serendipity, faith, chance or destiny. Everyone can try what fits with their perspective and beliefs.

In fact, I'm a big proponent of taking the counterperspective just for argument's sake to understand and be sensitive to all sides...

Re: Zemanta Open Semantic API with commercial support

gerry campbell — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:28:38 -0000

Smart move.

I have said for some time that tagging of the Web needs to happen at a tool level, allowing app builders and developers to bake the approach into the platform level.

This move reinforces the migration of semantics from the icing layer (publishing) to the infrastructure of the web.

Re: The Invention Of Air

gerry campbell — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:45:05 -0000

I can't wait to read the book. I have been boring my friends and family about Cholera since I read Ghostmap last summer.

And I completely agree with your take on the times we're in. There's no doubt in my mind. Many of our institutions and approaches we have relied on for the past who-knows-how-many-years are transforming. The foundations of our economic, political and social world are changing.

There is a precedent in science, philosophy, etc that new ideas are often thought up at the same moment in different places (that's what the quote is about...). Good time to be in emerging technology and media. Huge positive impact to be made.

Props to Mark and Steven. Very impressed with what you're doing with outside.in.

Safe and fun travels to you Fred.

Gerry

Re: Semantics, Search and Big Honking Databases

gerry campbell — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:08:55 -0000

and can't we use co-occurrence, etc to establish that relatedness...

Re: Semantics, Search and Big Honking Databases

gerry campbell — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:07:49 -0000

Does the nature of the task (and this discussion) change if we talk about it as codifying *relationships*? That's really where I am going.

I am not sure it makes any difference at all WHAT the thing is, it's more about the interrelatedness of one word to other words. In that case, the ambiguity is represented in a set of linkages that are more or less exclusive.

For example - the linkages to gates the thing vs gates the person would be different. Even in the case of that double entendre, the two sets could be statistically separable.

Re: Semantics, Search and Big Honking Databases

gerry campbell — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:51:39 -0000

I love a vigorous debate, but actually there isn't one here. I pretty much agree with you.

We choose to state it differently (I think).

The word "semantics" has been used to cover so many things that it may have lost some precision in its definition. I may be guilty of using a broadened version here.

I think of it this way: Google solved one of the vexing problems of search: Out of millions of results, which one comes first in the rankings? They created PageRank to approximate what *most humans* would find to be the best result. That was a hard problem and they stepped up to OWN the solution, even creating the "I'm Feeling Lucky" to emphasize that they had a solution to the problem.

But it's still wrong a portion of the time for a large percentage of users... So they leave the other 999,999,999 results just in case.

That simple approximation, and the willingness to accept some error while committing to improvement has revolutionized search.

The exact thing applies to understanding meaning. If we can accept error, and use words like "semantics" or otherwise to describe what we're trying to do, we can make progress.

If you want to coin a new term for this I'll gladly use it and give you attribution. ;-)

What we seem to agree on is that there's no room for purity and absolutism here...

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

gerry campbell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:49:56 -0000

Giannii, there should be 3 comments on this post... lost somewhere in the ether...

Thanks,
G

FIXED - Many thanks. Disqus is great.

Re: We are so F##%^$ked…Continued

gerry campbell — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:26:44 -0000

Right on Howard. To a large extent the world economy is suffering the inevitable consequences of indulgent behavior. So be it. Maybe we're all guilty to some degree, maybe not.

The paradox is that, amidst this global challenge our markets, media and technology are transforming right before our eyes. If we lift up for one second, it's easy to see that we're in a state of what Darwinians would call Punctuated Equilibrium.

Let's take this opportunity to rebuild new things and chuck the old, broken ones. Corporate overhead, Bloated IT departments, unsustainable lending practices. I could go on for a while. Let's rebuild them all.

I want to be a part of a stronger country, economy and world after all of this settles out. The only way to get there is to take the pain with an eye on what we need to learn from all of this.

I'm an angel investor, and I expect to have the cram-down discussions in the future. I've laid-off. shut-down and re-factored before. But that doesn't dampen my optimism right now. Forest vs trees.

Re: Jay Ridgeway - Erlang: the movie The most fascinating 11...

gerry campbell — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:33:18 -0000

That looks like the Dharma Project video we see clips of on Lost. Where do the mutated polar bears and rabbits come in? <g>

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Re: The rise of Sensor Media

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Re: Search is broken – really broken.

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Re: Search is broken – really broken.

Re: Case Study - CostToDrive.com - Small and clean | luckyrobot.com

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Re: Zemanta Open Semantic API with commercial support

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