On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Garrett agarrett@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 08/10/2009, at 5:17 PM, Florence Devouard wrote:
There is a presentation of the concept here: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html
I don't know why they bothered using a demo to explain their technology, clear explanations like "organize the real-time knowledge web" and "explore the knowledge web in 1-click" just speak for themselves.
The idea of mix Google and Wikipedia search in a mashup is not new...
The Google FX extension alredy did it.. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31950 http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/4999/googlefxv205mk1.jpg
A greasemonkey script can change the google page, because is the user, Is like watching monalisa with sun glasses. But maybe a mashup service has to ask permissions...
About webzzle: Seems ( insane || cool || naive ) people but not (smart && evil) people. Most spammers are naive and insane, so I will classify webzzle there, but is not a perfect fit.