http://michaelhussey.com All the latest happenings... Thu, 01 May 2008 17:30:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ownership of RateMyTeachers.com, one of the internet’s most popular education destinations with over 70K visitors per day, and the legal effect of its purported recent sale to Patrick Nagle, is currently under dispute. RateMyTeachers was initially founded in August 2001 as a complement to RateMyProfessors.com (currently owned by Viacom) ... http://michaelhussey.com/2008/05/01/press-release-dispute-over-ownership-of-ratemyteacherscom-cloud-over-sale/ Is there a website he hasn't joined? Look at this. http://michaelhussey.com/2007/11/30/leothemaster-is-the-internet/ 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 -- ... http://michaelhussey.com/2007/11/28/peekyou-google/ 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. ---- Google and Yahoo currently have a stranglehold (75%) on the search market for ... http://michaelhussey.com/2007/08/15/altsearchengines-essay-competition/ Do not believe the excuses being put forward by the teacher unions -- demanding internet censors protect teachers from cyber-bullying? RateMyTeachers is at the forefront of protecting teachers online and it promotes the best and most effective among them. Since our inception, RateMyTeachers has instituted rating rules that ... http://michaelhussey.com/2007/08/05/ratemyteachers-teacher-unions-and-the-uk/ 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, ... http://michaelhussey.com/2007/07/17/peekyoucom-beta-launch/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/23/life-online-with-bob-parsons-xm-radio-interview/ Interviewed on BBC today regarding RateMyTeachers in the UK. Listen here (Real Player required) http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/23/bbc-interview/ Kejda and I blogged our trip to Albania. Check it out here. http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/04/trip-to-albania/ Quietly launching... http://michaelhussey.com/2006/07/15/coming-soon/ 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. ... http://michaelhussey.com/2006/03/26/getting-under-the-skin-of-a-few-brits/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2005/11/17/open-source-media-launch/ Check out the new RateMyTeachers design. http://michaelhussey.com/2005/09/19/new-design-for-ratemyteachers/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2005/04/25/partnered-with-boltcom/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2004/10/03/cnn-appearance/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2004/06/11/npr-interview-all-things-considered/ 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. http://michaelhussey.com/2004/03/11/npr-day-to-day-giving-teachers-an-internet-report-card/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2001/12/01/the-meaning-of-the-new-economy/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2001/11/17/plans-for-imconnected-connecting-friends-to-friends-online/ 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 ... http://michaelhussey.com/2001/08/16/launched-ratemyteacherscom-today/