MarketSmart Interactive's Garrett French to Moderate Social Search Round Table
Steve Mansfield is the CEO of PreFound, which I first wrote about here: PreFound Tag Search Engine (very) Early Adopters Are Educators, Researchers

Because of such doozies as Yahoo! Pounding Google and MSN; Y!'s Social Networking Riff and Yahoo MyWeb's Gonna Kick MySpace in the Jimmies Steve concluded that I've drunken enough social search Koolaid and now it's time to start pouring it out for others.

I can't wait :)

I've spent the better part of this afternoon preparing my 4-5 points for discussion during the social search panel (Steve needs them for a conversation with some yet unannounced panel members tomorrow).

I started with notes I scribbled on a LONG-ASS email Steve sent me and then folded in an email debate I've had recently in defense of social search.

Then I mashed in all my social search/social media links and notes from my "working" file (my drawing board where article titles and links live and bounce around and ripen and juxtapose until I turn them into posts/articles).

Then I called Steve to help get focused again, 'cause now I've got one monster of a list to drill down into 4-5 points :)

The following is from a recent article in InfoWorld: Prefound.com to wed social networks, search
"Prefound.com will hold a two-day meeting Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, during which its founders and the founders of social network LiveJournal, as well as members of the press, will discuss how to combine search engines with social networks, Mansfield said. The author of the Search Engine Lowdown news site, Garrett French, is scheduled to moderate a round table at the event on Friday."

The two day event's in my hometown of Louisville, KY, and will be held the day before the Kentucky Derby. There will be a live podcast of the event for reporters and several reporters from BIG media.

Do you have any social search questions? I'd love to discuss! 919-433-3139.

I'm also taking bets for Derby horses, as PreFound's taking us to the races.
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