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 – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

The Power of Wikis

• Wikitravel


• MediaWiki


• Wikivoyage


• Wikihow


• Wikimedia Foundation

The Problem with Social Networks

• Social Web Working Group


• Pump.io


• Identica


• GNU Social


• Tent.io


• Micro.blog


• JSON Feed

The Promise of A.I.

• Fuzzy.ai


• AlphaGo

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