Move over Ms. Dewey, LivoRobot is here!

November 4th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
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Ms. Dewey

Does anyone remember this pretty lady?  Ms. Dewey make quite a splash as the first “synthespian” – a digitalized human search guide.  And for quite some time she’s had the stage all to herself.  No more! 

Introducing LivoRobot

Disclaimer: For mature audiences only.  (You can search for ‘tetris’ or ‘hotel’ or ‘film’ for starters.)

NVI is an online marketing company that brings “creative” revenue opportunities to companies. NVI has developed LivoRobot, a search site and home page that introduces entertaining short videos to users. 

AltSearchEngines is off to Defrag conference today

November 4th, 2007 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Monday, November 5th, 2007

7:30 to 5:00

 Registration Open

7:30 to 8:30

 Continental Breakfast

8:30 to 8:40

 Welcome to Defrag – Eric Norlin

8:40 to 9:20

 Keynote: Everything is Miscellaneous – David Weinberger

9:20 to 10:05

 Keynote: Topic – Social Intelligence – led by Clay Shirky
Participants: Joshua Schachter, Yahoo!; JB Holston, Newsgator; JP Rangaswami, BT Global Services

10:05 to 10:15

Morning Break

10:15 to 10:30

 A Message of Warning: Michael Barrett, CISO, PayPal

10:30 to 11:45

 Open Space: Defining Defrag Topic Areas – led by Jerry Michalski

11:45 to 12:15

 Sponsor Challenge: Shane Pearson, BEA Systems

12:15 to 1:15

Lunch (with Sponsors)

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

  

1:15 to 2:00

Social Networking the Enterprise: Dawn Foster, Charles Armstrong and Aaron Fulkerson

Defraging the Enterprise: DIY Mashup tools and Widgets — Adam Gross, Salesforce.com; moderated by Jeff Nolan

  

2:00 to 2:45

A look at “Structured Attention“: Alex Iskold

Defragging Gadgets: Community-driven Electronics: Peter Semmelhack, Bug Labs

  

2:45 to 3:05

Sponsor Challenge: Greg Reinacker, Newsgator

Sponsor Challenge:
TJ Kang, ThinkFree

 

3:05 to 3:15

Afternoon Break

3:15 to 3:30

 Defragging Identity: Dick Hardt  

3:30 to 4:00

 Keynote: Discussing Attention – Esther Dyson  

4:00 to 4:30

Customer Reach vs. Vendor Grasp — Doc Searls

  

4:30 to 5:00

 Things to do in Denver when your Corporation is Dead – Ross Mayfield  

5:00 to 7:30

 Evening Reception

7:30 to ?

 Birds of a feather dinners around Defrag Topics

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

8:00-11:00

 Registration Open

8:30 to 8:35

 Morning 2 – Opening Comments

8:35 to 9:15

 Defrag and Enterprise 2.0: Andrew McAfee

9:15 to 10:00

 Keynote: Topic – Next-level Discovery — Marti Hearst, UC Berkley; Lou Paglia, Factiva/Dow Jones; Jeremie Miller, Search Wikia; Steve Larsen, Krugle; moderated by Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!

10:00 to 10:15

Morning Break

10:15 to 11:30

 Open Space: Covering what’s not getting covered – led by Jerry Michalski

11:30 to 12:00

 Sponsor Challenge: Yahoo! Jeremy Zawodny

12:00 to 1:00

Lunch (with Sponsors)

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

  

1:00 to 1:45

Funding the Defrag space: a VC’s perspective — Jeff Clavier, Jeremy Liew and Brad Feld

Visualization of Social Intelligence – JC Herz

  

1:45 to 2:30

Searching People:
Michael Hussey, PeekYou (moderator); Michael Tanne, Wink; Robert Zakari, ZabaSearch; Tim Koster, SearchSystems

How taxonomies meet folksonomies, or the role of semantics on the Web – K.G. Schneider, Free Range Librarian

  

2:30 to 2:50

Sponsor Challenge: me.dium, Robert Reich

Web 2.0 goes to Work: Rod Smith, IBM

  

2:50 to 3:00

Afternoon Break

3:00 to 3:45

Towards a Usable Semantic Web: Nova Spivack

Visualizing Social Media: Principles and Challenges – Matthew Hurst

  

3:45 to4:20

Web Plumbing 101: A practical guide to the Semantic Web – Eran Shir and Jon Aizen, Dapper

Harnessing the Collective: Todd Vernon, Lijit; Tim Wolters, Collective Intellect; Ryan Marten, Rally Software

  

4:20 to 5:00

 Keynote: Relevance and Information Overload – led by Paul Kedrosky Participants: Bradley Allen, Siderean; James Altucher, Stockpickr; Chris Shipley, Guidewire Group; David Liu, AOL  

5:00 to ?

 Closing Comments