SEL: KnowIT Back at Me: KnowledgeStorm Talks KnowIT's Future

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August 16, 2005

KnowIT Back at Me: KnowledgeStorm Talks KnowIT's Future

I gave KnowledgeStorm's KnowIT a light roasting recently and invited their PR folks to get in touch with me and change my opinion. Laurie Hood, their VP of Marketing called me up and I ended up chatting up my old homie Jeff Coyle, who's the KnowIT product manager.

While they didn't change my opinion of where KnowIT is now (though they reminded me several times that it's beta, so chill dude), they did get me all excited about what's coming. And made me promise not to talk about it.

"Our preference is that you keep the future direction aspects of the discussion confidential at this time for competitive reasons."

DangIT!

Here's what they agreed that I can talk about:

Futures - As a next step you can expect to see greater integration between KnowIT and KnowledgeStorm allowing a user to more seamlessly search the content within the KnowledgeStorm Solution and Research Directory as well as the indexed technology-related sites on KnowIT.

Technology - KnowIT incorporates open-source components that have been heavily modified by KnowledgeStorm.

Index growth - The expectation is that the KnowIT index will grow by several orders of magnitude over time, KnowledgeStorm's primary concern is with quality index growth to keep spam and unrelated content as close to zero as possible.

I can say that I'm excited about KnowIT and excited about where they're pushing IT vertical search. Thanks again for the call, guys!

Garrett French - MarketSmart Interactive | permalink | +marktd |

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