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Re:Beware of Freeconomics by ivankirigin on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @07:29PM (#124350)
Iskold is CEO of a startup that is boostrapping a semantic web framework through top-down crowdsourced information from free plugins and widgets http://www.adaptiveblue.com/overview.html

It seems like even if a few points are off in this article, his company is using free in an intelligent fashion.

Re:Beware of Freeconomics by icky on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @01:03AM (#124563)
> a startup that is boostrapping a semantic web framework through top-down crowdsourced information from free plugins and widgets

Web2-speak is leveraging the new synergistic paradigm! ;-)

Re:Beware of Freeconomics by ivankirigin on Wednesday February 27, 2008 @03:02AM (#124604)
There might have been a heavy overlap with market speak, but each word was deliberately chosen.

boostrapping: opposite of Cyc. Starting with a unintelligent system, and making it more intelligent.

semantic web framework: machine understandable content

top-down: creating a taxonomy of areas of understanding like songs, books, movies, etc.

crowdsourced: built into existing pages, with user input

free: zero cost

plugins and widgets: blocks of code that go into sites like blogs

edit: I think I took your comment too seriously. Thank god for emoticons ;-D