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Nat Torkington

Radar Roundup: Collective Intelligence

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | Comment | 26 February 2008

Collective Intelligence Foo Camp was last weekend and attendees have been writing up their experiences. Adam from Inkling Markets, Matthew Hurst, Andrew Turner, Greg Linden, and Roger Ehrenberg (both days). From the camp (and Kim Rachmeier of Amazon) came the best definition of Collective Intelligence ever: "the network knows what the nodes do not".
6 Influential Datasets That Changed The World (Flowing Data). Food for thought: what will be the 7th?
TextMap. A system that automatically tracks entities from news stories, as seen in Steve Skiena's MoneyTech talk. Check out Tom Cruise's page for an example. Adrian Holovaty gets data before it is buried in articles; Steve Skiena extracts the data from the articles.

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