We need to create better ways to curate and search information. Google isn’t personalized enough and people don’t want to give more data to Google. Social is often a good heuristic for information discovery (ie. filtering search to your following on Twitter) but is limited in search space. Anyone working on this?

~bitpyl-napleg. Knowledge sysyems. Software Engineer. Microsoft, Amherst College

I think knowledge discovery has leaned too much to be a passive activity (like RSS feed, twitter feeds, or even this purple app). These things have their place in encouraging discovery but we would benefit more from a knowledge discovery system driven by curiosity and your preexisting knowledge/worldview.