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Nerds are fucking funny. It’s another point from The Nerd Handbook that I suggest is related to the relevancy engine, but I never explain. Let’s try now.

  

The processing of relevancy has three steps and it’s the third where the magic happens:

  
 
1. Collect the Relevant
2. Research and Index if necessary
3. Connect the Relevant in Efficient and Entertaining Ways
 
  

So, how is The Funny created in this flow? It’s a big question: what is funny? I’d say there are two big classifications of funny. There are jokes and there’s wit. Jokes are memorized comedy retold with moxy. Wit is original comedy created in real-time and delivered with precise timing. Nerds are fucking witty because they connect the relevant to the present quickly and in clever ways.

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Services will be get better and better at finding what you want based on a deeper understanding of:

Context


• What you're like - as measured by your behavioral profile and trends, including past searches, social connections, browsing history, etc.
• Who you're like - search engines will be able to target results based on how you fit into groups of people with similar interests, tastes, and other traits, as collaborative filtering algorithms and the datasets they have at their disposal improve
• Where you are - as measured by geolocation and other sensors which will increasingly be able to know your altitude, orientation, local temperature, etc.
• How you feel - as measured by device cameras and mics, which will be able to discern your mood and reactions by your facial expressions and vocal tones, and increasingly other sensors which can measure changes in body temperature, etc.

Content


• What it means - as allowed for by increasingly structured data and improved artificial intelligence, similar content will be clustered together into category hierarchies, allowing search to be more a quick process of selection and elimination, instead of a long exercise in parsing and clicking
• Where it's been - ubiquitous and standardized content metadata will allow seamless traceability of the path content has taken, and how it's changed along the way, which will help identify it's level of relevancy to other content

Services will also continue to improve input and output interfaces for carrying out a search, as well as presenting and managing results.

KR: WHat’s the value proposition for the first user at the company?

EP: It can work for only two users as a communication platform or a reference point. We want to build something that feels like a consumer software but is for the enterprise.

EP: We’re not trying to compete with Quora; were just trying to add a centralized knowledge base within businesses. We are looking at organic growth but open to whatever makes sense.

SV: Our approach is to build a layer on top of a company. This a light and easy way to add that layer. And it can integrate with other silos of information.

Euwyn Poon tells about Opzi in a interview. http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_c...

It takes no great genius to predict how the war will end. The Boomers will retire and the Millenials will win by default, in a bloodless end with no great drama. KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, with the Gen X leadership quietly slipping the best of the KM ideas into SM as they guide the bottom-up revolution.

And it won’t be just a victory of fashion. It will be a fundamental victory of the better idea. SM is an organic, protean, creative and energetic force. KM is a brittle, mechanical, anxiety and fear-ridden structure. It is telling that the biggest KM concern is the potential loss of Boomer knowledge, a backward-looking preservation/archival concern, while the biggest current SM concern is probably the heart-stopping excitement around the possibilities of mobile devices and the potential Web-top-enabling Google Chrome.