Jeff DeChambeau is a research analyst at nGenera. He is entering the final year of his B.A. at the University of Western Ontario, specializing in Philosophy with a minor in Mathematics. At Western, he has been involved in various student leadership projects and brought some of the benefits of Web 2.0 to the student community. Prior to joining nGenera, Jeff worked as an intern at the online music store Puretracks. Jeff has also worked as a freelance web designer for as long as he can remember.
Yesterday, The Globe and Mail had a piece about a new company that’s trying to change the way we search online:
SAN FRANCISCO — Powerset on Sunday unveiled tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, marking the first step of its challenge to established Web search services such as Google.
Powerset’s technology breaks down the meaning of words and sentences into related concepts, freeing users from always needing to type the exact words they want to find. Read More »
Hi there, I’m Jeff DeChambeau and I just joined the Wikinomics team. You’re invited to comment on anything I post, or if you’d like to contact me directly, to send me an email.
Onwards to my first post:
A few months ago we saw the release of two movies that (for me at least) demonstrated mainstream Hollywood’s acceptance (or at least acknowledgment) of the significance of YouTube: Cloverfield and Be Kind Rewind.
In case you missed Cloverfield, it’s Godzilla with a twist. The movie was shot entirely from the point of view of one guy with a video camera. This footage told a first person account of the entire ‘incident’, from the start of the night at a party, to later on when the cameraman and his friends were chased through subway tunnels by vicious creatures and beyond.
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