Flaptor

Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia just announced his intention to create a search engine combining Nutch and human editors. Color me a skeptic, but although Wikipedia is great this has a neon Vaporware sign painted all over it. Here are some reasons why I’m not sure it’s a good idea:
1) It’s been done before. Yahoo began […]

This morning I was in a meeting with a number of entrepreneurs including Martin Varsavsky from Fon. He gave a nice presentation about the concept. I got a Fonera (FON’s wifi router) at the from the meeting, which we promptly set up at Flaptor’s office. It’s a neat concept, I won’t explain it here in […]

Flaptor is mostly about search but sometimes people want to do other stuff. I read once (I believe it was on Peopleware) that when people feel passionately about a project, it’s usually a bad idea to stop them. This is how Bonoki was born. Mono, Rafa, Pancho and Pasto have been working on it for […]

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
(falsely attributed to) Charles H. Duell
Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
When we think of searching for information, we imagine a text box on a white page with a button next to it. Type a few words, get a list of links and snippets of web pages in a […]