Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). From a particular perspective, the search experience is broken into three aspects: searching the web, searching within a website, and searching Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “. I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer

Many people will have woken up this morning to another change to the Facebook user interface. Made the search box much more prominent It is much more than just moving and making the search box larger. It shows the importance of search to Facebook, and indeed to all social networks. Image by minifig via Flickr You can read more about the redesign over on Mashable , but in summary the social network has:

This update was quickly disabled but adding this back in would certainly add significant value to the Twitter site and pave the way for search for people and issues that are trending ‘near me’ – based on where people are when they share their information and not where they say they are in their location. Facebook : Perhaps the most interesting announcement this week is talk of developments at Facebook to include location features. It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’.

People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook. Facebook is about connections, friends and contacts. It’s about information and search. The real value of Facebook is when you have a group of friends with who you share ideas, experiences and content. Image by manfrys via Flickr They’re wrong to do this.

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Facebook is used (mostly) by members as a gated community. Stinging status leads to Facebook fracas WE are nominating this the Facebook fracas of the week. Twitter I understand, it IS usually completely public, but Facebook, tsk tsk, we tend to leave settings on default - family and network can see all (not public), no RSS, no Google search etc. They want to keep information within the network, not have it published in the newspaper . News.com.au

tool for one purpose turns out to have business benefits - Facebook like social networks, Facebook Groups for Business investigation. to say these technologies are only artifacts in our search to keep making our A CEO’s first question, after the decision to launch a new product product or expand to a new market in a different geography, is WHO will lead this endeavor?

Yesterday I wrote about Focused Search-Based Applications as one way that Web and enterprise search is expanding. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an interesting article on this topic, Internet Giants Look For Edge In Real-Time Search . It started by explaining that, “that real-time search helps Internet users find Web posts, including those from San Francisco's Twitter Inc., Here is another. seconds after publication.”

Girls used Facebook to call for help TWO girls used the social networking site Facebook to call for help after getting stuck in a southern suburbs drain. Yet they chose to use it to update their Facebook status. 8221; offers social search in times of stress without the final OMG-we-are-in-so-much-trouble repercussions of formally informing an adult that Nearly laughed out loud when I saw this one in a local cafe: by Amy Noonan, Police Reporter on News.com .au

Serena has Adopted Facebook as Their Intranet by Bill Ives November 28, 2007 at 8:42 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 A few weeks ago I wrote a post, It is Time for Facebook Fridays: A Idea that Should Spread , that briefly mentioned Serena Software’s policy of allowing employees one hour of personal time during the workweek to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, customers, family and friends. In my first post I referred to an article on their policy which I felt was somewhat mis-titled, Serena Software