PowerSet Goes Beta

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in startups |

I've talked about PowerSet before. Yesterday it went into public beta. Currently, it only crawls Wikipedia and performance isn't that great (compared to Google), but surely it will improve over time. BusinessWeek also has a nice summary of PowerSet if ...

Brainpark To Solve Information Loss in the Workplace

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in startups |

Today, I discovered a startup out of Canada that seeks to cope with the information heavy world we live in. Brainpark is a "peer-to-peer resource recommendation system" that seeks to "reduce the need to search for information by acting ...

AllTop Brings the Internet Full Circle!

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in web technology |

"One faces the future with one's past." - Pearl S. Buck It is so true that history repeats itself. I've blogged recently about the evolution of the Internet and the advent of search as a lens from which to explore what ...