The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI (Interview)

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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