Justin Baum

Playing with Yahoo!'s "advanced" twitter search app - Sideline. Its cool, but man, activity streams are hungry for meaning. Can't find what you want if the app doesn't know the difference between eskimo (records) and eskimo (people). Psyched to see progress in this area over the next few years. Is the solution going to be a "layer cake" of crowd, semantic web and robots? The more I start to mine twitter, in a normal person/non engineer sense, for things I am interested in the more I slam head on into this wall. Of course, this is why hordes of very smart people have been working on the problem of how to define what an object is about on the web for many years... Hurry up! :-P Twine has an interesting take on Semantics+Ontology=Meaning