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About Ben Elowitz Ben Elowitz is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a technology platform company that is reinventing the media model on the social web. The company attracts more than 15 million unique visitors monthly on its platform. In addition to Digital Quarters, he writes Media Success, a bold and forthright newsletter for digital media thought leaders. His work has been featured in FORTUNE, TechCrunch, All Things D, The Huffington Post, Forbes, TIME, CNNMoney, paidContent, and CNBC.com, among others. Prior to Wetpaint, Ben co-founded Blue Nile (NILE), the largest online retailer of luxury goods. Ben was also an early employee at Fatbrain.com (FATB), an ecommerce company that went public in 1998 and was sold to Barnes & Noble in 1999. Ben holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an angel investor in a number of media and ecommerce companies, and is a frequent conference speaker on digital media, social content, and entrepreneurship.
Posts Tagged ‘Rand Fishkin’
Xconomy: Facebook, Google and Beyond
7 Jun2011
by Ben Elowitz
A couple of weeks ago, here in Seattle, I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion about the future of SEO (search engine optimization) and SMO (social media optimization), along with one of the top SEO experts in the world: Rand Fishkin. The conversation was a lively one, moderated and reported –by Curt Woodward, at Xconomy.
My view is that – particularly for media – we are at a tipping moment. The web is no longer a field of static documents navigated by a precise search engine. Instead it’s a living organic distribution machine from person to person, through the ether of “social operating systems” like Facebook and Twitter. And, as a result, I expect Google will be losing ground to Facebook.
It’s was a lively and fun dialogue.
Read the highlights and play-by-play here, courtesy of @curtwoodward.