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Providing a place for computers to track meaning and reason about it (making computers smarter!) (thoughttrail.com)
I have mostly built a semantic platform in Python, with me and a friend.
We have been in Techcrunch.We get the text off the screen and let users do related stuff.
MiniBrowser shows related information for Instant Messenger users in one click. (Built, cross-platform - I use Ubuntu, but obviously most people use Win).We have a nice business model too. We're going to turn the world on it's head. You're looking at the next Google, or at least a good acquisition target. If you'd like to use your super-powers to help out, step aboard. Also, we will be releasing an SDK shortly, and rich documentation. We want to be the Firefox of contextual-search, and semantic applications. See our OLD pitch here. Or a bunch of different mockups here.
Some things we've already coded:
We can reuse webcontent like this: getWebXpath("http://google.com/ie?q="+query, "/html/body/nobr/a/@href")We can also reason about how inter-related given topics are:
>>> getRelatedness("infected mushroom", "mdma")
51.57%
>>> getRelatedness("luke stanley", "thoughttrail")
79.91%The AI platform will only get more sophisticated, as people add more plug-ins to it, pretty much like they do with Firefox extensions. We are into recursive programming, actor based programming, clustering, cellular programming, and all sorts of good stuff.
email: luke at thoughttrail dot com Skype: fluxorz.
We like to code using Gobby over Skype and Instant Messenger. But being based in the UK, would be a bonus. However, we will likely be moving to the Bay Area soon.
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Marissa Mayer: "An absolutely perfect arrangement would be to have a device that could run search queries in the background based on the words it recognizes in conversations"
http://profy.com/2008/09/11/marissa-mayer-predicts-future-of-search-misspells-novosibirsk-my-city/
exactly, it's hot stuff ;)
added bonus: local based data storage means you don't have to let megacorps know ANY more about you.
hey Shimi, we aren't focusing on the mobile space just yet. We're focusing on the PC for now!
Cheers for the compliment Josh.
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Hi you're presentation looks interesting.
Are you planning to implement the technology for PC only oris the Mobile space part of the plan?
Hi, i too have worked on related stuff, phrase detection and all and would love to work with u.
Howdy. I would love to learn more about your getRelatedness function. Specifically, what is it using to find matches? How quick is the function? I.e. could a search engine use it to compare best results based on search query without caching results first?
By the way, the thoughttrail system looks like a great application for this matching function. Good luck with it.