Phil Butler Unplugged

If Money And Greed Only Hadn’t Spoiled It
What in the world happened to the promise of Web 2.0? Whatever it was, we are now bogged down in mud hole only slightly resembling the “El Dorado” painted for us over the last 18 months. Innovation after innovation have failed to live up to expectations. Still [...]

As the search engine race heats up, more and more evidence surfaces to the effect that this year will be the year of search. From Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis squaring off at the Digital Life Design conference to Google’s “behind the scenes” search elements - the quest for the next search is in full [...]

Do you ever get tired of downright stupidity? I know you do and I sympathize whole heartedly. In the technology field of writing we often wrestle with complex and difficult to explain innovations and services. Some of us spend untold hours just trying to understand, let alone explain some of these creations, and even [...]

Melek Pulatkonak - President of hakia - posted something extraordinary on my Facebook wall today. To be honest, the video was so profoundly inspiring and touching that I could scarcely watch it. This kind gesture made me consider what I have tried to convey to people these last 12 months. I thought about how we [...]

I had another talk with Barney Pell - founder and former CEO of Powerset today. I had written a post earlier this month on Profy about my perception of the recent management changes, and was anxious to talk about Powerset’s progress. Powerset is one of the most promising new search engines which I have covered [...]