Phillip Rhodes

Quoddy is part of the Fogcutter suite of tools for building intelligent applications. Basically, Quoddy is a sort of "mini Facebook" like social-networking interface. It builds on the APIs for social-graph management, activity-stream, activity profiling, tagging, etc. Provides the front-end for ... [More] managing connections and for letting users provide information about themselves, their interests, etc. But unlike Facebook, no silly Pirates vs. Ninjas or Farmville stuff. [Less]

Neddick is part of the Fogcutter suite of tools for building intelligent applications. Neddick provides tools for tagging, ranking, discussing and discovering various sources of knowledge: web-links, documents, people, etc. It's over-simplifying a little bit, but think of Neddick as sort of a ... [More] combination of Reddit, Delicious and Planet. Mix in a powerful search engine, and a recommendations engine, and it lets you categorize, rate, tag, filter, discuss, and discover the knowledge in ways that most enterprise search applications can't. Point Neddick at the RSS feed coming from your Document Management System, feed it some web-links, post some questions, tag some article, vote some things up or down, and let Neddick help you discover the knowledge you need. [Less]

Heceta is part of the Fogcutter suite of tools for building intelligent applications. Heceta is a search engine that leverages all of the various bits of information from Neddick, Quoddy, and "Other" systems to provide better / deeper / more insightful search results than you can get from simple ... [More] document content analysis. Intranet search in organizations is usually very poor, largely because page-rank type algorithms don't work well due to the lack of links between documents. But by supplementing the content analysis with scoring based on tags, social graph connections, activity-stream information, etc., and applying machine-learning / artificial-intelligence techniques Heceta can do a superior job of locating the knowledge and information a user needs. [Less]