Cool Technology of the Week | Wavii

Wavii's all encompassing tag line/mission is to "Make Facebook out of Google." Essentially compiling all the information across the internet (including search engines, social platforms, and accessible applications) for any given topic and arranging that information into an asthetically pleasing and navigable Facebook-esque newsfeed. It's a service you read about and go, "Huh, I guess we don't really have anything like that, do we?"  

"With the company's current service, for instance, users can set up a newsfeed dedicated to a particular person or topic. The service will alert you when anything big happens with Kim Kardashian, Mitt Romney, or IBM, and it will do so in plain English... Aoun and his engineering team have built a system that analyzes hundreds of thousands of articles, blogs, tweets, and other websites as they're posted to the net and then tags them with metadata that describes the information they hold."

However, the problem, critics are saying, is not getting all this information aggregated in real-time, it's making sure the information is qualified and relevant. Such an application is very enticing to the likes of trend abusing spammers like those on Twitter or content farms more concerned about selling ad space than providing useful content. We thinks they are bound to fight the same good fight as Google in sorting through information. But if they can figure that out, Wavii has our vote.

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Is ICANN initiating a new .com boom with the gTLD program?

Did you know there was an international nonprofit established in 1998 to regulate the Internet and everyone who accesses it? ICANN, the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers, is the body that, in its own words, “oversees the huge and complex interconnected network of unique identifiers that allow computers on the Internet to find one another.” That is, they regulate domain names and IP addresses, who uses them and how. And ICANN has recently made a decision that could mean monumental changes for our online experience over the next decade.

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