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Kngine - Parallel Search

Internet News — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:46:04 GMT

Search Engine Kngine explains Parallel Search, The Next Web (Mar 13) - Tour Kngine - a "Web 3.0 Engine" that provides Information about concepts (its understanding of your keyword), answers questions, shows "relations between the keywords and concepts" and links...

Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove

TechCrunch — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:31:12 GMT

Editor's note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, Ben Horowitz of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz explains the leadership traits he and his co-founder Marc Andreessen look for before they invest in a startup. Some of their investments include Skype, Zynga, Factual, and RockMelt. Before becoming investing partners, Horowitz and Andreessen co-founded Opsware, which they sold to HP for $1.6 billion, and prior to that Horowitz was an executive at Netscape. At Andreessen Horowitz, we favor founders running the company. The reasons are many (and will be the topic of a future blog post). As a result, we spend a great deal of time thinking about the characteristics required to be a founding CEO. Perhaps the most important attribute required to be a successful founding CEO is leadership. So what is leadership and how do we think about it in the context of the CEO job? Are great leaders born or made? Most people define leadership in the same way that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously defined pornography when he said: �I know it when I see it.� A better definition comes from former Secretary of State Colin Powell who said: �You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.� For our purposes, we can generalize this to be the measure of the quality of a leader: the quantity, quality and diversity of people who want to follow her.

Craig Barrett Takes On Vivek Wadhwa In The Tech Education Debate

TechCrunch — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:31:12 GMT

Editor's note: The most valuable employees of any technology company are the engineers and scientists, which is why everyone in Silicon Valley does whatever they can to ensure the continuous supply to this talent pool. The size of the talent pool is ultimately determined by the number of people who graduate from colleges and universities with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees. The U.S. is graduating fewer and fewer scientists and engineers, causing concern in many quarters. While many people agree this is a problem, not everyone agrees on what should be done about it. Former Intel chairman and CEO Craig Barrett is a strong proponent of priming the pump with more undergraduate science, engineering, and math students. Duke/UC-Berkeley professor (and regular TechCrunch columnist) Vivek Wadhwa thinks that better rewards for people who pursue engineering and science degrees is the right approach. So we asked Barrett and Wadhwa to debate the issue of how best to fix technology education in the U.S. Their exchange is below:

Google Closer to Leaving China

Internet News — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:31:04 GMT

Google Is Leaving China, Jacob Friedman, The Next Web (Mar 13) Google is likely to leave China - or as the Financial Times reported - 99.9% sure. Google declared it would run the search engine censorship free - and China...

29 Tidbits from my Interview of Matt Cutts

Ramblings About SEO — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:01:07 GMT

It is always a pleasure when I get a chance to sit down with Matt Cutts. Google’s Webspam chief is always willing to share what he can for the benefit of webmasters and publishers. In this interview we focused on discussing crawling and indexation in detail. Starting with this interview, I have also decided [...]

Google stars for bookmarking

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:01:05 GMT

Google is replacing SearchWiki with stars in Google search. The stars sync with Google Bookmarks, so you can get access to them wherever you go. Once you star something, it shows up above the search results: Pretty cool. But I discovered an extra little tip. If you go to Google Bookmarks, you can find a bookmarklet [...]

Google stars for bookmarking

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:01:04 GMT

Social Media Strategies: Ravit Lichtenberg at OMS10

PRoactive | Online PR trends | Sally Falkow — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:46:06 GMT

Ravit Lichtenberg of Ustrategy spoke in the keynote at OMS10 about the vital need for a social media�strategy rather than “shooting arrows at a moving target.’ Take a step back and figure out� the best way to reach your customers, provide valuable content�and stay close to them, says Ravit. � Five Social Media�Tips: 1.� Have a vision-driven strategy, but [...]

Navigating the Middle of Your Post � Without Getting Lost

ProBlogger Blog Tips — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:31:07 GMT

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Search, Video and the Future of PR: Greg Jarboe at OMS 2010

PRoactive | Online PR trends | Sally Falkow — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:01:06 GMT

The Online Marketing Summit in San Diego was held at the beautiful Paradise Point�Resort this year.� I caught up with Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR after one of the keynote sessions and talked to him about search, video and public relations. � According to comScore the second most popular site where searches are conducted is�YouTube, Music is the [...]