Mark Johnson recently took over as the CEO of Zite, a personalized news magazine app that delivers news stories tailored to users’ interests. According to Zite, “Mark has been an advisor to Zite for almost two years and was instrumental in our pivot from Worio to Zite. He brings a strong product and technology background with experience at several successful search startups: Powerset (natural language search, acquired by Microsoft), Kosmix (categorized search, acquired by Walmart), and SideStep (travel search, acquired by Kayak). Most recently, he led product at Bing in San Francisco. We’re really excited to have him leading the team to help change the way people discover and browse content.” Read more

Invention Machine recently reported on the shortcomings of traditional search and how deep semantics can help: “Yesterday, we hosted a webcast on the Future of Research and how Question Answering Technologies – and Deep Semantics, in particular – address the needs of the knowledge worker. The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of registrations for the event, a flood of responses to our pre-event survey and dozens of questions throughout the live broadcast.  Clearly, the topic of search – and the failure of traditional search – has struck a chord.” Read more