Coolhunt #6: Monday, April 23, 2007
Coolhunt Log #6 Monday, April 23, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O'Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: Let's start with a website that I go to everyday: O'Reilly Radar at Radar.Oreilly.com. WEB: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html SCOTT: I thought it would be interesting to discuss the software program Freebase. The concept behind it is quite amazing, and what it means for bridging ideas for the future of the web. Because it's an alpha product, however, we can't actually look at it at this point. PETER: On our 3/11/07 Swarm Creativity blog post, we discussed Freebase and Danny Hillis. Hillis created Thinking Machines, which involved a massively parallel computer called the Connection Machine. SCOTT: He's the brain behind Freebase, a s...