Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Aronchick, Co-Founder and CEO of Hark (Part 2)

SM: What about formats? DA: We’re an audio sound bite site. SM: So, you need MP3 or WMA, those kinds of formats? DA: Exactly. We also do like images associated with that content and any text or description as well.

Deal Radar 2008: Powerset

Powerset concentrates on natural language processing (NLP) to search the web, meaning that the search engine uses whole phrases rather than just keywords, making it easier to get the results required. The site currently uses natural language queries to search Wikipedia. Powerset’s real strength is the way it indexes web pages: pages are analyzed according

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Deal Radar 2008: Metaweb

Metaweb Technologies, a spin off from Applied Minds, aims to build a better infrastructure for the web. The company, co-founded by Danny Hillis, was spun off in January 2005, and is based in San Francisco, California. Its primary product is Freebase, ‘an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge’. This database is free to use

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