Craig Newmark, the visionary founder of the now ubiquitous local search site Craigslist began the conference with a  humble bang, speaking about the history of his company and his plans for the future.
Genesis of Craigslist:
Craig started a CC email list in 1995 to keep San Franciscans informed about “stuff” going on in the City.  This [...]

Here’s a list of all of my SES San Jose 2007 recaps, for quicker reference:

Top Ten Small Business Takeaways
Linkbaiting and Viral Search Success
Local Search Marketing Techniques
The Paid Links Debate
Searcher Behavior Research Update
Universal and Blended Search
Personalization, User Data, and Search
B2B Search Marketing Tactics
Marissa Mayer’s Keynote Interview with Danny Sullivan
Social Scene Recap

Search Engine Guru Danny Sullivan sat down with Google’s Marissa Mayer for a relatively informal interview in front of several thousand folks at Wednesday’s keynote address.
Ms. Mayer seemed quite pleased with how Universal has turned out. In her words, Google’s idea is to move away from a “10 links” mentality and get the search [...]

Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro was the clear ‘rockstar’ on this panel, presenting data from a series of eye-tracking studies his company had completed earlier this year.
His conclusion?  Personalized results do appear to work.  Time spent on each personalized result, as well as fixation, and clicks were all double when compared to ordinary results.
Interestingly, the embedding [...]

So of course there isn’t really a Web 1.8 (nor is there really a Web 2.0, Tim Berners-Lee would argue), but in my mind Web 1.8 is a concise way of saying the following: I like a lot of what Web 2.0 stands for, visually, but perhaps things have gone just a bit too far [...]

This afternoon, my favorite bloggers (SEOmoz) unveiled their 2007 Web 2.0 Awards.  It was certainly serendipitous timing given my review of the ’Web 2.0 Aesthetic’ last week, and my upcoming analysis of the pros and cons of this aesthetic, and how it informs my work.   
For those of you still somewhat new to the Web 2.0 sphere (which [...]

The term “Web 2.0″ has been around since 2004, created by Tim O’Reilly to refer to companies and technologies that were helping to shape the next iteration of the World Wide Web. Collaboration, input from users, openness to blogging, extensive database management, and realization of The Long Tail all define Web 2.0 from the economic and theoretical sides.

But what about from the design side?