The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI
Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.
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Featuring:
- Evan Prodromou – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Show Notes:
The Power of Wikis
- Wikitravel
- MediaWiki
- Wikivoyage
- Wikihow
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Social Web Working Group
- Pump.io
- Identica
- GNU Social
- Tent.io
- Micro.blog
- JSON Feed
- Fuzzy.ai
- AlphaGo
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