Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.

Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.

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Featuring:


Evan Prodromou – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:


The Power of Wikis

Wikitravel
MediaWiki
Wikivoyage
Wikihow
Wikimedia Foundation

The Problem with Social Networks

Social Web Working Group
Pump.io
Identica
GNU Social
Tent.io
Micro.blog
JSON Feed

The Promise of A.I.

Fuzzy.ai
AlphaGo

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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