If you’ve been reading my musings these past few months, you may have noticed an increasing fascination with data. Who owns it (the creator, the service, both? Who has access to it - ISPs? Device makers? Marketers? The government? And how are we as an industry leveraging data to…

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Last night I had the pleasure of interviewing Steven Levy, and old colleague from Wired, on the subject of his new book: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. The venue was the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, and I think they’ll have the audio…

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I took a ride today, and it was gorgeous as usual. That’s not my story, but it’s certainly a part of it. As I rode I used the AllSports GPS app on my iphone to track my progress (guys, if you’re reading, your upload is busted). I knew I’d be…

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Herewith and below: Friday Signal: What’s Yer 20? Apple and Google Know! » Thursday Signal: War, Death, Skynet, Pot Weds. Signal: This Is Your Brain, On Facebook Tuesday Signal: We Were All Sophomores, Once And Again Monday Signal: What *Is* The Future of Media?…

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Herewith, for all you RSS readers of Searchblog, is that other thing I do every day of the work week, Signal. If it suits your information consumption goals, sign up for Signal’s email newsletter or RSS feed on the FM home page (upper right box). Monday Signal: What *Is*…

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One of my first “big books” out of college was James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it’s been so long I think I’m due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up in my ongoing self-education is Gleick’s The…

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We’re very excited to announce the theme and initial speaker lineup for our 6th annual Conversational Marketing Summit. The Summit will take place June 6-7th in New York City, at the Hudson Theater and Millennium Broadway Hotel. Our theme is Finding the Signal. Speakers at our annual anchor event…

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Federated Media is proud to present the sixth annual Conversational Marketing Summit, June 6-7 at the fabulous Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Times Square. The preliminary agenda is now up, more is coming, but you can get a pretty good sense of the lineup - it’s…

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For my next book (no really, I’m starting to work on it in my copious spare time), I’ve begun to read in earnest. I’ve got a rather long list, and I’m not sure I’ll get to them all, but for those that I do read, I plan to do…

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(NB: Much has been written and said on this topic, and this post is in no way complete. We’ll be exploring this issue and many others related to data at the Web 2 Summit this Fall). Perhaps the largest problem blocking our industry today is the retardation of consumer-driven…

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This latest post is some sketching for a longer riff I’m eager to dig into. I love the fact that I can do sketch out loud thanks to American Express. Here’s the first few grafs: Over the past several posts I’ve been talking about the role of search, conversation,…

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Brady reprises the Google Alphabet (the first word auto-populated by the newly integrated Google Suggest for each letter in the alphabet)….

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Friday linkday: Via Churbuck, a nice walkthrough of how to use Google search tools to understand site acquisition and traffic patterns. As long as we’re in a learning mode, here’s a post on using FriendFeed as a business tool. The IE8 beta is out. I need to grok this….

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Why launch Chrome (Google’s new “browser”) when Firefox, Google’s favored son, is doing so well? Because Google needs its own. Using a comic book to introduce it is fun, and certainly, there’s always room for new approaches to platform and interface, and Chrome looks to have a lot of…

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I was wondering what data was sent to Google from Chrome users. Matt has the answers, and so far, seems innocuous….

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