Archive for November, 2007

New Feature: Featured Consultants

We now have featured consultants profiled on our homepage. We’ve picked a few folks to profile there for now and will be changing it up as needed down the road. Contact us if you’d like to be featured on the front page.  Our goal is to build useful expert network management software and create a truly dynamic information marketplace.   Let us know what you think! Read the rest of this entry »

New Feature: Contract Emails with Outlook Calendar/iCal Invitations

As of today, when a new contract is created the confirmation email will include an Outlook Calendar/iCal invitations. This will allow users to add KnowledgeBid calls directly to calendars. Our goal is to make sharing knowledge as easy as possible as part of our expert network management software and dynamic information marketplace. …and if you forget that you have a call scheduled, it’s pretty tough to share anything at all.

New Feature: Bling for Your Blog

Yet another feature release…providers can now put KnowledgeBid buttons and links on their blogs, websites, social networking pages, or online resumes and link to their KnowledgeBid public profiles. These buttons will help providers promote their profiles allow people to create private listings with them directly. I’ve included some non-linked examples below and you can also see the buttons in action on my blog and Joe’s personal site. Read the rest of this entry »

New Feature: Public Profiles

Joe has been really cranking. Providers can now create public profiles to promote themselves and their areas of expertise. Public profile content is generated from your private profile content. We made a very easy to use control panel which allows you to select which parts of your private profile you would like to be displayed publicly (if any). Read the rest of this entry »

New Feature: Private Listings

You may have noticed a new button on our homepage that says “Private Listings”. If you missed it, it’s in green right next to the public listings button (screenshot included below). We recently finished private listing functionality and think folks will find it extremely useful. In short, anyone can initiate a private listing directly with anyone else so long as you know their email address. If you locate someone that you would like to learn from, you can send them a private listing via email. Read the rest of this entry »

KnowledgeBid Alerts

One the features our users find most useful is KnowledgeBid Alerts. You can quickly and easily create alerts for the industries, markets, or subjects you are exposed to or have interest in and we’ll send you an alert via email you when your expertise is in demand. Read the rest of this entry »

Google: $225B and organizing less than 0.02% of the world’s information

Google’s recent OpenSocial and Open Handset Alliance announcements have pushed the company’s market capitalization north of $225,000,000,000. But at the end of the day, Google has two more products in a portfolio of over than 70 others…of which AdWords and AdSense create the bulk of profits, with AdWords being the better of the two. This means that AdWords ads shown in search results drive Google’s earnings, but Google has organized less than 0.02% of the world’s information. Imagine what the other 99.98% is worth. Read the rest of this entry »

KnowledgeBid = officially launched

Well, we’ve been up and running for about a month now, but today we issued our first press release and are officially open for business. Read the rest of this entry »