Product Reviews Tripwolf Prepares For Public Launch - RWW Readers Can Get In Today Last month a new travel social network called Tripwolf launched into private beta. The site offers a variety of content, including both professional editorial and user-generated reviews of destinations as well as a Google Maps mashup that layers users' photos onto a world map. Although Tripwolf is yet another travel site in an already extremely… Sarah Perez View comments
Politics Ameritocracy: Crowdsourced Campaign Clarity - 100 Invites Ameritocracy, which just launched into invite-only public beta, is a new political site that helps people cut through the noise and rate and review political information for credibility and relevance. The site helps users to sort through the sea of information we're pummeled with via the media each day and pull out the more credible and relevant… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Adobe Media Player: Now With 15,000+ Things To Watch Adobe Media Player (AMP) is an AIR application filled with TV shows and videos clips (see our review here). The app, first launched as a beta last September then as version 1.0 in February, includes content from MTV, Comedy Central, Universal Music, PBS, Fine Living, Food Network, CondeNet, and they keep introducing new shows all the time. This… Sarah Perez View comments
Product Reviews Accoona, Once Pretender to Search Throne... Now Niche B2B Service According to the Zuula blog, former search king pretender Accoona has finally given up on becoming a major search player. When Accoona was officially launched in December 2004, at a ceremony featuring Bill Clinton, Accoona claimed to have search technology that would be "more efficient than the likes of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN… Richard MacManus View comments
Search Hakia Announces Semantic API Semantic search engine Hakia today announced a set of APIs that opens up their natural language processing and search platform to developers. Hakia's Syndication Web Services really comes in two parts: search queries, which allow developers to add web search functionality leveraging Hakia's five billion page index, and XML feed calls, which give… Josh Catone View comments