Interview with Nate re: the Windows Live Webmaster Center launch and some other topics.

Quoted: What a day! It's our first Whiteboard Friday interview from our new Whiteboard Studios at Mozplex 2.0 (or the Mozoleum as our guest suggest). Who do we have? None other than our good friend and MSN Live Webmaster Center honcho, Nathan Buggia. As many of you know, Live just rele...

Some insight into how StumbleUpon works. Not too surprising.

Quoted: As you can see in the chart below, there are three key parts to the Recommendation Engine. There are pages from the topics you marked that interest you, socially endorsed pages and peer endorsed pages. Socially endorsed pages are the ones that users you have befriended on the site like, while peer endorsed pages are ones from users who have similar voting habits (giving a site the thumbs up or thumbs down) as you.

ReFaving this Jeff Bezos speech to CMU biz school grads. Will watch later.

Quoted: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, spoke at the Tepper School's 2008 Diploma Ceremonies. The topic of his speech was the pursuit of success via risk and failure.

This conference (organized by Vanessa) is coming up in a week or so. I'll be talking about Faves.com for about 15 minutes -- specially a) on how we get traffic from longtail SEO and b) on our traffic drop (and recovery) when we changed our name.

Quoted: Complete track, session, topic and speaker information for Day 2 of SMX Advanced 2008. Get cutting edge SEO and SEM insights and tactics - join us in Seattle June 3-4, 2008!

A nice list of the key points if you don't have the time to watch the videos.

Quoted: This is my attempt at a broad overview of the whole day; what I took away from each speaker. You'll notice that some of the takeaway's may contradict each other. Well, a few of the speakers seemed to contradict each other, which is a topic for another post. Here's a very broad summary of the day.

Om Malik reflects on the three months following his heart attack.

Quoted: I have had to institute numerous behavioral changes over the past 90 days. But what I found was that some of my worst and most deep-seated habits were among the easiest to overcome — smoking, for example, as well eating a meat-rich diet and avoiding exercise. It’s the little things that have proved to be a challenge.

"Seattle vs. the Valley" seems to have become a hot topic lately.

Quoted: The fact is that all those great things about Seattle, or wherever, don’t have a damned thing to do with offsetting the business and cultural advantages of Silicon Valley. Making lifestyle choices is fine, but don’t delude yourself into thinking those choices are anything but a tradeoff. If staring at lakes and skiing after work are important to you, don’t pretend to be surprised when your startup doesn’t cut it.

If you are looking for ideas on what topics to add to your home page, these are there ones I've chosen.

IBM's enterprise social bookmarking...

Quoted: Dogear exploits the enterprise by allowing people to bookmark pages within their Intranet. In addition it uses enterprise directories to authenticate the user's identity. This allows people to find experts on specific topics within the company. For example, a employee looking for someone knowledgeable in Java can look at the dogear "java" tag to see who has been bookmarking pages around that topic. Dogear will also show tags associated with "java," which may help to refine the search. Once users have found a potential expert, they can see that person's bookmarks, internal blog, and contact information. This form of expertise location helps spur collaboration and sharing of resources within the company.