Each company did their ‘pitch’ in five minutes and people chose which session to attend based on their own interests and expertise. The companies on the list included: CallFire, WorldMate, My City Way, IPEVO, Google Goggles, Burn, Micello, Newsy, Mixmobi, Stalqer, Mogotix, Blog Talk Radio’s Cinch, Justin.tv (which was broadcasting on-site btw), Geodellic, and Yapper.
Below is a video explaining how Speed Geeking works in its very own unconference style.
Pearltrees’ CEO Patrice Lamothe and CMO Francois Rocaboy on the Web 2.0 Launch Pad stage in San Francisco this week, selected as only one of five companies to present to a panel of three judges.
The social life of the search engine: does it get any hotter than that? At The Marker Com.vention in Israel, client Answers.com CEO and founder Bob Rosenschein spoke on a panel titled, Search Engines: Steady State or a Gathering Storm?
From the Answers.com blog, Bob spoke up on the necessary mix of search engine support, as well as participation on social platforms. “The future is one where Google is certainly still strong, but social media, including Facebook, are just as important.”
Other panelists included Yoelle Maarek, Senior Research Director at Yahoo! Israel; Arkady Volozh, Co-founder and CEO at Yandex; and Barak Berkowitz, Managing Director at Wolfram|Alpha.
Here’s the direct link to the video segments on the Answers.com blog, which includes links to the video segments from the panel.
