April 27, 2008

Dash dishes

My link roundup, Waypoints, is on hiatus for a few weeks, while I try to dig out from the pile of review units I've received. And I thought the following was interesting enough for a weekend post...

The video below is a presentation Dash gave at the Web 2.0 forum. The first half is more of the same, but it starts getting interesting around the 2:55 mark. Those searches may be anonymous, but they do know collectively what Dash users are looking for, as well as when and where. Check it out...

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