Now it has some sentimental value…

Great article and a video featuring me and  Bizzy‘s VP of Marketing Ryan Kuder, talking about Bizzy and interacting with our users in Portland and Seattle.

Executives of Bizzy, an online check-in service primarily for restaurants, are traversing the Pacific Northwest, getting in front of customers at local restaurants and bars to introduce themselves and get feedback. The jaunt through Oregon and Washington is an abbreviated sequel to a trek in July that took Bizzy execs from Silicon Valley across the Southwest and Texas and up to Washington, D.C.

The eye-catching publicity swings, while time-consuming, speak to the lengths some social-media start-ups are willing to go to gain traction in a marketplace larded with competition.

VIDEO: Bizzy’s founder explains his app for foodies
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There is much discussion about the role of traditional search engines like Yahoo and Google when it comes to local search. Traditional web search was built and optimized to value the popularity of a page rather than the popularity of a place.

The rise of Web 2.0 gave birth to products like Yelp, focused on collecting reviews from local business patrons and organizing them into search results, with the most liked businesses at the top. Yelp created a step function improvement over what Google and Yahoo had to offer, allowing real customers to voice their opinions and be heard.

Seven years later, it’s time to re-imagine local search for this decade. This next generation search will be highly impacted by the two leading trends of the last few years: social and mobile.

Read the full post on Search Engine Watch

Imagine, for a moment, a dating site where users are asked to rank single men and women using from one to five stars.

That rating is then aggregated, averaged, and displayed on the profile of every user on the site.  When someone goes looking for the love of their life, or maybe just a dinner date, their search results are ranked in order of star rating.  The top results are the Brad Pitts and Angelina Jolies of the dating pool.  For Everyone.  Always.

Read the full post on Bizzy’s blog

It has been a year since I started blogging. It is not much of an event (even I missed it in 4 days…) but it made me look back on the blog statistics. I posted 55 posts, about once a week- much more than I expected. The posts that got most of the attentions were ones that came up in popular searches. For first time visitors, here are the top posts: Read the rest of this entry »

I am back from Vietnam and Cambodia and already jumped into a new gig (details to follow soon…). Before I resume normal business/SMB blogging, I wanted to share few pictures from these amazing countries…. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi All,

My blog (and its owner) are taking few weeks off, to explore the SMB scene  in Vietnam and Cambodia… See you on the other side of my vacation.

Gadi

PS- you can subscribe to this blog RSS feed (or mail subscription) so you are notified when I am back.

I am working on a new post that will put an end to the slow turkey week but in the interim, I figured out I can recognize my top posts based on how much you liked and read them. It is two months that I am writing now, so it is good time to name the winners…

The most popular by far is Leading a Global Team- The Starter Guide. I got few mails from people that said it really helped them which made me feel great…

Second in popularity is Apple Company Ethics. I am not sure why, but this one still attracts readers and a lot of people are getting to it by Googling Apple + ethics. Why is it that so many people are worried about Apple’s ethics? Read the rest of this entry »