Future of the web from Demo08

Thanks to Greg Linden’s post, I watched portions of the video from the Future of the Web panel from Demo08. A number of significant points were discussed. Some of them intersect with what we at Ibiograph think about, work on, and solve.

1. Better understanding of language and meaning
Peter Norvig – Google “ better understanding of language and meaning, what people mean, better statistics, algorithms. Better communities ”

Ibiograph Approach and Solution: We agree with the problem but attack the solution from a different perspective. Ibio starts at the individual level with an understanding of personal meaning of language in context and over time.

2. People don’t want to search they want to accomplish tasks.
Prabhakar Raghavan-Yahoo “Divining intent, people want to run their lives., Retrieval engine is limiting paradigm. Task fulfillment is key, people don’t want to search, they want to accomplish tasks”

Ibio Approach and Solution: We agree, search as a paradigm is currently bloated (like financial services and auto industries); see earlier post. Ibio example of accomplishing tasks- People don’t want to tag, organize pictures, text, audio, and video. People want to preserve and share memories in an indexable, narrative way. Ibio’s memory agent automatically organizes and tells people’s story using their personal lexicon. Ibio Memory books automatically publish in PDF and deliver to people. View memories and create stories on the fly by using the words in your Lexicon to instantly create books of all moments described by that word.

3. Wish fulfillment
Howard Bloom (futurist,author of The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century )– genie in bottle, do everything I want it to, long term goals, wish fulfillment mechanism, accomplish almost anything (user agent). Outboard memory – remember names. “read my mind” extension of my own intelligence.

Ibio Approach: A user agent, suggesting helpful actions based on the time, context, historical knowledge of real life, and relationships to people close to you.

The “future of the web” focuses on solving a wider range of daily, real world problems that won’t necessarily be thought of as “the web”. Ibiograph offers technology, innovation, and services that deliver value to people by saving them time and acting as an agent to accomplish tasks on their behalf. The services available today through the Ibio agent are memory archiving, automatic PDF memory book publishing, with translation services and enhanced search using your personal lexicon currently being tested.