Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Companies for writers
Author: Nick Sweeney Posted: 4/21/2000; 12:03:02 PM Topic: Tools for writers Msg #: 16516 (In response to 16505) Prev/Next: 16515 / 16518
Speaking of associations: have you seen the work on Remembrance Agents that has been done at the MIT Media Lab?http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/
(after a quick search, which the RA would have helped out: there's a link here.)
It seems to be mirrored in the Kenjin search/suggestion engine which was recently launched by Autonomy. It's also the kind of thing that Deepleap seems to be trying to do with metadata, though in a more rudimentary fashion. Imagine when replying to a post, that you can see everything the author's previously written on the subject, because the agent guesses it will be relevant...
Autonomy's founder says that he wants his company to become "the Oracle of unstructured data", and this seems to chime with what I was saying about the non-academic desire to build from the ground up rather than beginning with Ideal models of organisation. It's definitely a writer's company. Harness its engine to web-based distribution, and the potential is stunning.
This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:54:53 PM.
© Copyright 1998-2001 UserLand Software, Inc.