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Cospace.co Grows to Serve All Work Spaces – Austin’s Cospace Coworking Closes

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 by Paul O'Brien

Last week, the Cospace brand evolved to focus on serving entrepreneurs and professionals throughout the world as our web service continues to aggregate and promote work spaces; providing economic and real estate intelligence. In July 2012, we launched https://cospace.co to index and promote every work environment; connecting skilled professionals with the right place to work.

Published in Local, Startups, Vertical Search

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Google Please Work on the Blog Search Algorithm!

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by Paul O'Brien

One aspect of the regular search algorithm that seems of increasing importance to blog search is authority; page rank, or what ever you want to call it. Simply, ensuring that blog search fosters the inherent premise of a blog by promoting real bloggers. I LOVE blog search. I can’t stress enough how much I prefer

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Vertical Search

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Get Paid to Search

Monday, 16 February 2009 by Paul O'Brien

This has been tried before hasn’t it? Services that pay you to surf, click, search, or share have been around since the dawn of the internet and one has to wonder from two perspectives; first, why don’t they catch on as significantly as you might expect and second, what’s the catch? I like Scour and

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Published in Fun, Search, Vertical Search

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Vertical Ad Networks

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 by Paul O'Brien

Could this be the year of the vertical ad network? With the struggling economy leaving many, including one of my favorites, to circle the wagons and batten the hatches, we’re increasingly discovering that large “traditional” ad networks are doing as well as Yahoo and AOL at effectively monetizing their inventory. That is to say, the

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Published in Display Advertising, Vendors / Agencies, Vertical Search

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Innovative Social Shopping with Bunnybot

Friday, 02 November 2007 by Paul O'Brien

As I shop for the holidays I am repeatedly faced with the same challenge, a discussion that ensues something like this: – I’d love to get the TiVo Series 2 HD DVR – That’s the thing that records TV right? – Um… yes, but you have to make sure it is a Series 2 –

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Published in Comparison Shopping, Fun, Social Media, Vertical Search, Web 2.0

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Finervista: A New Vertical Search Engine

Tuesday, 11 September 2007 by Paul O'Brien

In the age of increasingly more specialization in search, it seems there’s another segment getting attention. The paint isn’t even dry and San Francisco based Finervista seems to have experienced a successful dÃ©but of an educational search platform. Serving thousands of webcasts through their searchable index, they provide a wonderful resource for business executives, legal

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Published in Insights / Research, Search, Vertical Search

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TechCrunch TC9 Download

Friday, 27 July 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Having spent the last few hours at Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch Meet-Up, I sit here struggling to find some criticism of the event simply for the sake of a buzz worthy post. The fact is, the party was flawlessly executed from logistics to music, drinks to demos, and all with a crowd of industry elite akin

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Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Vendors / Agencies, Vertical Search, Web 2.0

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