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ePrecis - next generation search

ePrecis - next generation searchPreviewSeekI'm personally amazed with PreviewSeek which self-proclaims to be "the world's most advanced search engine."Using the same query "What happened to Ted Nelson Xanadu?" no quotes the first result was a 1995 feature from Wired magazine specifically talking about what happened to Ted Nelson and Xanadu...

Tags: ePrecis, Ted Nelson Xanadu, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-27

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We live in media as fish live in water

The other day I was looking for a quote by Ted Nelson, a computer pioneer and maverick thinker. I found it: "We live in media as fish live in water." This is very descriptive of our daily lives, imho. As I searched, I was reminded of...

Tags: Media, Video Game, Video, Computer, WWW, Macintosh Interaction, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?Counter nominationThat's all well and good, but Yochai Benkler (http://www.benkler.org) has actually been doing serious research and publication on [i]software libre[/i]Economists hate each other!It is a joke - no two econmists will ever have the same opinion. It was interesting to read your...

Tags: open source, Stiglitz

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee

Google exec challenges Berners-Leeand last on the list"They won't need Google" (or anyone else for that matter...)Tim, Google, and all thatOK guys, it's time to read Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu docs again. No reason to reinvent.too funny ...... it makes my belly hurt. Get this:"We deal with millions...

Tags: SEARCH, Storage, Google Inc., incompetence

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

ePrecis - next generation search

One of the disruptive start-ups contenders emailed to me was a new search engine called ePrécis, described as "An English language processing API". According to Ward Johnson, the person who emailed me about this, ePrécis was developed by a group of linguists at the University of Minnesota. They...

Tags: ePrÃ

Blog posts 2005-10-26

The curse of moving

I move too much. I'm currently moving closer to Los Angeles, because for all intents and purposes, where I live puts me practically in Hawaii. At least, that's what you'd conclude if you looked at my monthly gasoline bill. I'm not entirely sure why I move so much, since I...

Tags: Xanadu

Blog posts 2005-09-14