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16 Nov 06
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Something that defied us for 50 years suddenly became trivial
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With Flickr you can find images that a computer could never find
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and Digg
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users “tag” photos, making it simple to identify images
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they see early examples in services like del.icio.us and Flickr
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by mining the “buzz” on college music Web sites, the researchers were able to predict songs that would hit the top of the pop charts in the next two weeks
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they are now routinely using a digital snapshot of the six billion documents that make up the non-pornographic World Wide Web to do survey research and answer questions for corporate customers on diverse topics, such as market research and corporate branding
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people haven’t realized this spooky thing about how much they are depending on A.I.
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impending birth of Web 3.0
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Smart Webcams watch for intruders, while Web-based e-mail programs recognize dates and locations.
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Lego phase
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Oren Etzioni, an artificial-intelligence researcher at the University of Washington
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growing realization that text on the Web is a tremendous resource
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next-generation database system that stores associations, such as one person’s relationship to another
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the basic technology that made Google possible, known as “Page Rank,” systematically exploits human knowledge and decisions
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Underscoring the potential of mining human knowledge
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commercial interest in Web 3.0 — or the “semantic Web,” for the idea of adding meaning — is only now emerging
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We are going from a Web of connected documents to a Web of connected data.
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