I will be the first to admit that sometimes I don’t “get” stuff that I come across on the Internet. And such it is with Twitter’s new offering, Blackbird Pie. The whole […]
Answers.com Pushes Answers to Twitter
Answers.com, which you might remember from WikiAnswers or ReferenceAnswers, announced last Wednesday a new alpha feature called “Hoopoe,” which ties in with Twitter. Hoopoe’s Twitter account is at http://twitter.com/answersdotcom. Here’s how it […]
Cuil Launches Cpedia, Web Aggropedia
Poor Cuil, a victim of what I like to call “Teoma Syndrome.” Teoma, for those of you who weren’t geeking out on search engines ten years ago, was a search engine that […]
Another People-Powered Q&A Search Engine on the Scene: Quora
Do you remember when natural language search engines (sometimes called “question engines”) were hot? It was about twelve years ago. Ask Jeeves was all that. Everybody wanted to be able to search […]
Making A Reference Page From Several Resources: Mashpedia
Over at MakeUseOf I read about a recently-launched resource called Mashpedia. Though it might sound like a wiki for potato recipes, it is actually a cool tool from gathering reference information from […]