Michael Hussey Blog

Filed an extensive utility patent today

Today we submitted an extensive utility patent with the goal of securing many of the database and web technologies we are pioneering at PeekYou. It has been a privilege over this past year to work with the excellent team at Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen. I’m very excited about the next stage [...]

Combining My Twitter Accounts

For the most part, I try to keep my atheism and libertarianism private, as most people are rightly sensitive about religion and politics. While I hold strong views on the role of the State and am averse to mysticism of all stripes, I get along with people from all walks of life. My best friends [...]

RateMyTeachers Update

Good news.
Patrick Nagle and I have agreed to partner up to re-focus and build RateMyTeachers.com. Patrick is well known for buying RateMyProfessors.com, improving it, and selling it to Viacom/MTVu. He is also the creator of Swooks (originally Switch Textbooks), a used textbook swap and sell service.
Stay tuned, for good things to come.

Married today

Kejda and I were married today in a small ceremony at my sister’s house.
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CEO Spotlight on PeekYou’s Michael Hussey

I enjoyed giving this interview with Alt Search Engines.

Leothemaster is the Internet

Is there a website he hasn’t joined?
Look at this.

PeekYou + Google

Early this morning (after a couple of all-nighters), we launched the latest PeekYou product – a Google search that displays the owners of the websites directly next to the search results (or the people referenced within them). The search results are generated with Google’s Custom Search engine — so you get the same [...]

AltSearchEngines Essay Competition

I recently won first place on an AltSearchEngines essay competition. Charles Knight asked readers of his new blog to contribute ideas on how alternative search engines can increase their collective market share. Here is my entry.
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Google and Yahoo currently have a stranglehold (75%) on the search market for one simple reason – for [...]

RateMyTeachers, Teacher Unions and the UK

Do not believe the excuses put forward by the teacher unions — demanding that internet censors protect teachers from cyber-bullying? RateMyTeachers is at the forefront of protecting teachers online by promoting the best and the most effective among them. Since our inception, RateMyTeachers has instituted rating rules to protect teachers from bullying. [...]

PeekYou.com Beta launch

PeekYou Emerges From Stealth Mode With 50 Million Profiles in Beta, Providing Easy and Efficient People Search Capabilities
Tuesday July 17, 12:54 pm ET
RateMyTeachers.com Founder Seeks to Meet Growing Demand for Online People Search
Via Yahoo:

NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — PeekYou.com (www.peekyou.com), an innovative search engine dedicated to finding people online, announced today that it has [...]

Life Online with Bob Parsons XM Radio Interview

Tonight, I was interviewed on the Life Online with Bob Parsons (of Godaddy.com) XM Radio business talk show. It was an interesting interview, centered around RateMyTeachers; but I got to talk about a lot of things I do not usually delve into and I really enjoyed it.
Listen to the interview here.

BBC Interview

Interviewed on BBC today regarding RateMyTeachers in the UK.
Listen here (Real Player required)

Trip to Albania

Kejda and I blogged our trip to Albania. Check it out here.

Coming soon…

Quietly launching…

Getting under the skin of a few Brits

A beautifully biased piece of reporting from the British education website, teachers.tv. I enjoyed this one very much. By the way, we searched high and low for the negative comments the editors highlighted in this report, and all but a couple of them were never found. We’re not calling the reporters [...]

Open Source Media Launch

I was able to attend yesterday’s launch party for Open Source Media (formerly Pajamas Media) at Rockefeller Center and the W Hotel. It was most exciting to put faces to many of the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame, who OSM CEO Roger Simon dubbed “The George [...]

New design for RateMyTeachers

Check out the new RateMyTeachers design.

Partnered with Bolt.com

I recently moved to New York City, as I have partnered RateMyTeachers with a teen media company called Bolt.com. Bolt is selling targeted advertising for us at significantly higher rates than we were capable of on our own. So far, so good. I have also partnered with Bolt on a new venture called classface.com. If [...]

CNN Appearance

Today I was interviewed on CNN’s “In the Money” regarding RateMyTeachers.com. I was behind Wolf Blitzer in the makeup line. All I could muster was a weak “Hello” with a faint nod of the head. He looked really focused on getting to the news desk and I suppose I didn’t want to disturb him. He [...]

NPR Interview – All Things Considered

I was recently interviewed for this NPR piece discussing RateMyTeachers.com. This was my third appearance on All Things Considered. It is amazing how much has happened since I first was interviewed by NPR regarding RateMyFace.com in December of 2000.
“Jennifer Wing of member station KPLU in Seattle, Wash., reports on a Web site for school children [...]

NPR Day to Day – Giving Teachers an Internet Report Card

Alex Cohen reports on school children using the Internet to grade their teachers by creating a virtual “report card” on the Web site RateMyTeachers.com.

The Meaning of the New Economy

Published as an addendum to a business plan written for an online entertainment concept
The “new” economy is by no means a fundamental shift in the capabilities of capitalism. However, what excites many people is that we now have at our disposal technology that empowers individuals light years beyond even a few years ago. In order [...]

Plans for IMConnected – Connecting Friends to Friends Online

I have completed plans for IMConnected and have started showing it off to potential partners or investors (including people at Microsoft).

Have you ever stepped back and considered the sheer number of people you have met in your lifetime: your friends, co-workers, acquaintances, classmates, teachers, etc.? Have you ever thought it was curious the way [...]

Launched RateMyTeachers.com Today

RateMyTeachers launched today, bringing the funcationality of RateMyProfessors to middle and high school students – created by ordinary people with a vision for a better way of doing something. This past year, the concept of “accountability” in education entered the public consciousness. Many of the original founders had an interest in education [...]

Launched RateMyProfessors.com Today

Launched RateMyProfessors.com today in partnership with John Swapceinski (who created teacherratings.com). This is the best site for college students to find and share info on their college professors before they sign up for next semester’s classes.