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Outfoxed

Stan James, May 16, 2005

This is a very important development, probably the closest thing to the semantic social network I've seen, and absolutely the way forward. Study this item carefully. Outfoxed "uses your network of trusted friends and experts to help you find the good stuff and avoid the bad." In a nutshell, it captures evaluations and recommendations from your network of friends (which are stored in XM:L and harvested by your harvester). These recommendations are then used to annotate such things as Google searches, application lists and more (for good measure the author tosses in Phishing & spyware protection). There is a Matser's Thesis attached to the (free, open source) demonstration software.

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