The Crunchies is a competition to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Amongst the five finalists in the Best Technology Innovation category we have Twine; a semantic web application I’ve been testing for some time.
The Space Collective is a site under development, planning to launch a public beta of its site soon “Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction.
Last week an online friend of mine, Nils Geylen of NDNL, asked a question:
2005 was the year of the blog, 2006 that of social networking and 2007 that of microblogging. 2008 will be that of?
My answer was knowledge networking while Nils’ was videos. Consequently, we decided to write our own separate posts on the matter, explaining in a bit more detail our visions of what the web of 2008 will bring (read Nils’ predictions). We also decided that the winner gets the internet.
If you surf the web to any extent, you’ve inevitably noticed how the bottomless pit that is human stupidity presents itself there. Well, let’s remedy that with a bit of artificial intelligence. The StupidFilter is an absolutely brilliant project that aims to create an open-source filtering mechanism for stupid comments online.
A few weeks ago I said you should keep an eye out for Radar Networks‘ work on semantic web applications. Today they’ll finally come out of stealth mode, and over the past 24 hours they’ve unveiled quite a lot of details regarding the nature of their product, Twine. From what’s been disclosed, my excitement appears justified.
A few weeks ago I announced that Think Artificial had been accepted as a member of 9rules. What went unsaid in that post is that 9rules also offers a community site, or forum, that’s open to the public — with discussions covering everything from science to anime. Tomorrow a new version of the site’ll be launched entitled Ali2, with new features for socializing and general fun-having.
I’m telling you all this because I’ve been a frequent visitor there (to say the least) for several months, and some of my posts here have actually begun as a note on 9r. Since you read my blog it follows you and I must have something in common, and thus, you might enjoy yourself there as well. So, if you’re on the hunt for a place to have interesting discussions, now is a good time to jump on board as there’ll likely be an influx of fellow new users following the Ali2 launch.
RSS feeds are everywhere now, and for a good reason! It can be a really powerful tool for those who want to stay savvy, but don’t have much time to browse all of their favorite sites (yeah, I just described the entire population of Earth there).
Here’s an overview of what RSS is, how you can use it to save your precious time and also some additional nifty tricks I frequently use (top secret stuff).
After having studied publications and information on Radar Networks for a recent blog post, I decided I might as well write a Wikipedia article on them while I’m at it. Less than an hour (one hour!) after my initial publication of the article somebody had come along and tagged it, suggesting that it was written as an “advertisement”. Is it just my inexperience with Wikipedia, or does it seem a bit strange for someone to instantly slap a tag on it … even while I’m still doing modifications?
I’ve been following the news and rumors on Radar Networks for a few years now, a company that’s about to unveil a new semantic web application. What originally brought it to my attention was the fact that my brother was the chief architect of the underlying system during its conception, and is now on the board of advisors. But it’s not blood relation that’s perpetuating my interest; it’s the potential revolutionary nature of the product they’re about to release. As we get closer to their beta, the shroud of secrecy is gradually being lifted.
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