By Brian Solis

After weeks of searching the streets of San Francisco with real estate agents, we acquired a space in the hotspot of SoMa and signed a lease at 474 Bryant Street in early December. Over the past couple months we’ve experienced an enormous transformation. We're on our way to creating an epicenter for Social Media in San Francisco, and will host weekly events soon to commence on our calendar. In addition to building a command center with cutting edge design and technology to house our innovative team, we’ve been building PeopleBrowsr in other ways with the launch of ReSearch.ly, releasing 1,000 days of data for social search, advocating the interest graph and introducing the Brand Champion Scorecard.

By Brian Solis

PeopleBrowsr Has Opened The New York Social Media Command Center

It’s been an exciting year for us, across all time zones in all corners of the world. We’re happy to announce that we’ve officially opened our New York Command Center at 404 Park Avenue. Just steps away from Madison Square Park, Gramercy, Murray Hill and the Empire State Building - and just around the corner from the 28th St Lexington station - it’s no wonder we’re in love with our Midtown East location.

They say some of the best ideas come at the most unexpected moments, inspired by our every day lives. Such was the case a few Sundays ago in Las Vegas during CES. Over a breakfast of chicken-fried steak and cantaloupe at a café in the Palms Resort, an idea struck between Jodee Rich, CEO of PeopleBrowsr, and Jeffrey Hayzlett, acclaimed author and former CMO of Kodak.

At PeopleBrowsr, one of the most interesting and challenging problems we face is fully communicating the value of ReSearch.ly, and we’re frequently asking ourselves: How can someone know what they’ve been missing if they never knew it was there to miss? Ten years ago, for example, how many of us knew that Google PageRank would drastically change the way we look for information, or that Wikipedia would gain credibility as the ‘new’ encyclopedia for collaborative fact-and-information crowd sourcing? Communicating the usability and usefulness of new technologies and new ideas is a fascinating problem to tackle, and we understand that being an educator is also part of being an innovator in a market that’s still evolving and establishing itself.

Deep Dive into Twitter’s Social Database to Search through 1,000 days of conversations free of charge, with options for paid plans to create specialized analysis and customized reports.

Arizona State University, Phoenix - News Foo Camp, December 2010