Posts By: jiyanwei

Google News

by jiyanwei • May 15, 2007

I’ve been doing a bit of digging on how Google News ranks their results and figured that the World Intellectual Property Web site was as good a place to start as any.  According to the patent description, “In accordance with one implementation consistent with the principles of the invention, a method for ranking results is […]


Getting started with social media

by jiyanwei • April 16, 2007

Enter Social Media In September 2006, Hitwise, an online marketing research firm, reported that the majority of traffic to online music retailer, HMV.co.uk, was referred from MySpace, a social networking Web site.  This traffic surpassed searches from two of the most popular search engines, MSN UK and Yahoo! UK.  The event was a milestone because […]


Community and consumption

by jiyanwei • April 16, 2007

I’ve recently put finished a draft of an article that focuses on an aspect of social media and had been asked to do a complimentary Podcast for the article.  For some strange reason I started dreaming what I would say in the Podcast this morning at about 4 AM.  That is evidence that I am […]