Met with Wordster people today. Small company that will deliver in November. No VC money. 4th start up for the founder: Dr. Anindya Datta. “We will do to the dictionary what Wiikipedia did to the encyclopedia!” Sounded kind of audacious. I saw the demo: ontology-backed corpus scrapped from the web and crowd-source input. Visual/spatial representation [...]
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Wordster – aka Your Dictionary on Web 2.0
August 13th, 2009 · Comments Off
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Computing at the Margins
May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off
Today, I attended a conference entitled, “Computing at the Margins.” The subject was simple: How can computing be used to help those on the margins of society? It seems arrogant and audacious to define some group as “being on the margin” only if you are stuck in the Frankfurt school of political correctness. For those [...]
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