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Joel Liu

Mozilla Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge

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    • Send us your ideas for Firefox add-ons, preferably ones created with Jetpack, that can turn the web-browser into a platform for rich personal learning. You are not restricted to work on any particular type of application. Here are a few examples to get you started:


      • Turn social bookmarking and page annotation into effective learning tools (for example by including peer-assessment features).
      • Allow users to easily compile personal e-portfolios (for example, by combining their own works — photos, comments, articles—with testimonials others have written about them).
      • Let the browser suggest relevant materials (for example, by automatically identifying additional articles based on what sites a person visit or which topics they search for).
      • Support social learning communities (for example, by making it easy to find and connect with others who share similar learning interests).
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Aardvark Mulls Over A $30+ Million Offer From Google

Find answers through your friend network. It seems many services try to tackle this problem. A hard one.

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  • Their secret sauce is the way that they find the appropriate person to answer each question, and how they use your answering history to give power users priority in getting their own questions answered. I’m not terribly familiar with ChaCha’s product, but I would be willing to bet that under the hood it doesn’t have as much going on as Aardvark. If you’ve been looking at their hires and job postings on their site, they are bringing in a lot of high-end AI and NLP talent.
  • What Aardvark is working on is the future of communication. It helps manage the collective knowledge of your friends and associates in much the same way that Facebook manages your social relationships and information. It takes a far more focused and structured approach than just blasting out “lazyweb” questions on Twitter. This wouldn’t just be a talent grab for Google. There are a reasonable percentage of searches that Google cannot answer by spidering the web, but Aardvark can. Opinion questions are a decent-sized chunk of the search market, and often lead to purchases (”what is the best looking 42″ LCD around?”, or “what is the best bar to meet cougars in Vancouver?”).
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