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By: The Implicit Web–what it means for us « your browsing library

The Implicit Web–what it means for us « your browsing library — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:26:53 +0000

[...] December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment The implicit web is a fascinating and of late, a practicable idea. Here’s Brad Feld’s blog post : [...]

By: online travel guide

online travel guide — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:16:05 +0000

For years, AI has been limited not by technology, but by human acceptance and the gap between engineers and users. Look a your DVD remote. Try talking to your Microwave.

Will take at least a generation of re-educated users and then only in some demographics.

By: The Web Is Working Harder For Me | Bookmarks

The Web Is Working Harder For Me | Bookmarks — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:30:59 +0000

[...] $(function(){ $(“#startbox”).html(“A few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The Maturing of the Implicit Web. In it I talked about new releases from AdaptiveBlue and OneRiot. As I sit here in my hotel [...]

By: The Web Is Working Harder For Me

The Web Is Working Harder For Me — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:07:17 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I wrote a post titled The Maturing of the Implicit Web. In it I talked about new releases from AdaptiveBlue and OneRiot. As I sit here in my [...]

By: Philip van Allen » the implicit web - a new trend

Philip van Allen » the implicit web - a new trend — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:38:33 +0000

[...] More for related LINKS Some posts by some investor in companies starting to do this: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/04/the-maturing-of-the-implicit-web.html [...]

By: thejimgaudet

thejimgaudet — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:24:26 +0000

I can wait for all these new RTW SEs to come out. I just checked out worio.com. Kind of an upgrade to Delicious, but while I am looking in my bookmarks, I get new bookmarks related to my tags. I like that and it keeps me on their site…

By: Adam_Lindemann

Adam_Lindemann — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:37:38 +0000

Thanks Brad. I will.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:57:21 +0000

Just send email to be – brad@Feld.com

By: Adam_Lindemann

Adam_Lindemann — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:04:38 +0000

Brad, this is a great post and I completely agree with what you have written. I hope you don`t mind me mentioning an investment that my partner and I have made in building a new technology/product over the last three years that I think you will resonate with based on the themes in this post. It was actually chosen as one of the 50 finalists at TC50 in 2008 but did not launch because we learnt that whilst the technology and engine was strong the UI/Userbility/Value Proposition was not. We have since spent that last 9 months improving these things and are getting ready to roll out. I was wondering what is the best way to contact you about this? Thank you!

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:22:08 +0000

Great examples! I expect there will be a lot more of this type of stuff, along with real wiring for it between applications, appearing over the next few years.

By: Scott Golembiewski

Scott Golembiewski — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:19:21 +0000

Hi Brad, I went to your Beers & Boulder in Seattle event and when I was there met one of the guys from reQall and we were having this same sort of conversation. I'm glad we did because I've been using their iphone app lately and its basically just like what doctors use to record their office visits, transcribes them and does some other cool stuff.

I didn't expect it to be so intuitive but for instance one of my reminders I recorded to myself was something to the effect of: "this evening get the code that so and so needs to make changes before tomorrows meeting" and the interesting thing was I had an email in the evening about that message, and one in the morning as well.

Also on the way home yesterday, I noted the time, the mileage on the car and where I was. I'm terrible about keeping track of mileage for tax purposes and other things like that so, I'm trying to get this thing to "learn" that when I give information like mileage it can track the expense.

I could really see this type of thing being extremely useful say you are packing for a trip, you record something like "leaving for LA tomorrow, flight is at 7:00AM arrives at 8:30AM" then everything starts to get arranged for you so that when you wake up you have an email stating what you need to do before you leave, and when you arrive in LA it has transportation, restaurant and hotels you've stayed at. They call you when you arrive and they already know where you need to be, how you'd like to get there and things you might like to do.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:08:03 +0000

I haven't seen it but I will take a look.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:35:41 +0000

Hey Brad, have you tried Popego.com? It analyzes your online activity and builds an interest profile about you to recommend you stuff. It's still beta but looks very promoising.

By: Scott Yates

Scott Yates — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:07:33 +0000

It will take a while using that OneRiot tool to see if it works for me, but I have to say my first impression is that the thing really works and is so damn fast. Nice to see an early release of something new that works so quickly.

By: mark slater

mark slater — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:41:27 +0000

jonathan – i agree here. I saw a concept at Brown U 6 years ago that promised to deliver on the semantic web. I think we will see tiny pieces of NL being deployed – not a 'catch all' killer app.

It also requires more contextual data sourcing – it cant just come from the web – it needs my location, or it needs my action.