So claims Paul Kedrosky, saying: In other words, none of the apps are particularly good -- photo sharing, status updates, personal pages, events, groups, etc. -- let alone being as good as their standalone counterparts -- Flickr, Twittr, Typepad/Wordpress, Google Group, etc. -- but most people don't care. They just want their social software all in one place, all from the same interface, and then they want to move on and get their (social/presence) work done.
Danny Hillis' latest venture, Metaweb, is about to unveil its first product, the aptly named freebase, tomorrow. While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between the bottom up vision of Web 2.0 collective intelligence and the more structured world of the semantic web.
For far too long now, we have been watching the people in charge of Wikipedia slowly destroy what could have been something wonderful. The freedoms they promote on their website and to the media are false. Wikipedia is not a free and open encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It is not the sum of all human knowledge, and the person in charge wants to keep it that way.
T. Hampel, T. Pitner, и J. Schulte. ICEIS 2008 - 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, стр. 107-112. Barcelona, Spain, (июня 2008)