content: it’s not the most important thing, it’s the only thing by curiyo: bob rosenchein, ceo...
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Content isn’t the most important thing…Bob Rosenschein
[email protected]@bobr
Background• Curiyo: founder & CEO
• Answers.com (NASDAQ:ANSW): founder & CEO,built top-20 U.S. Website
• Accent Software (NASDAQ:ACNTF): founder & CEO
• Helped Microsoft create Middle-East Windows
• Winner: Israel Prime Minister Award, Software Achievement
• E&Y Entrepreneur of Year Finalist: NY, NJ, CT region (2010)
• MIT, computer science• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rosenschein
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Are you overloaded?
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You are here.
We’re all information foragers
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The good old days of SEO
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35% of Google searches
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Google One Box, with Direct Answers
Google Knowledge Graph
Traditional search results
Enter social media
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Click-bait…
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… but then you feel cheated!
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You’ve got A.D.D.
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Moore’s Law & strange curves• “Transistors per square inch have doubled every year
since the integrated circuit was invented.”–Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, 1965
• “Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.”–John von Neumann
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Reader empowerment
• Users drive markets
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Media sites under siege
• Economics driving trend away frombig publishers—beyond bloggers—to long tail content production
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Bring ‘em back
• It's not just about time and eyeballs—but engagement, participation & return visits
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Breaking through the noise
• No substitute for relevant information thatenriches orentertainsyour reader
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@bobr