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1. Jabril Says:
   September 13th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

   Very informative blog, just discovered it through your comment at TC. Definately keep up the good work!

2. John Says:
   September 14th, 2008 at 5:02 am

   Me too, i’ve just bookmarked it from ur comment in TC, i’m liking it and will go thru some of ur interviews in the morning, keep up the good work.

3. John Says:
   September 14th, 2008 at 5:04 am

   …and i think you’ve got a very novel concept for ur blog, I just read your about page. it’ll be good to learn along with u, thanks for sharing

   John

4. Ted Pin Says:
   September 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am

   Andrew,

   Great idea!

   We’d love for you to use Intermz.com!

   It helps people get information off their screens and into your brains dramatically faster by giving it to them in terms of knowledge they already have.

   Let’s say I want to learn to play piano and I know mountain biking. On Intermz, I could look up piano “in termz” of mountain biking since they share a lot of commonalities; rhythm, technique, practice, training, focus, endurance, and so on. But if a mountain biking context isn’t working for me, Intermz.com lets me switch between other contexts I know–martial arts, cooking, diving–until piano becomes something I understand.

   Most search and encyclopedia sites are good at bringing relevant information onto a user’s screen, but it’s still up to the user to get that information into their heads–to understand it. We think using metaphors, analogies, and context is one of the fastest, most accurate, and permanent ways to learn. The best teachers in the world often use these methods.

   To put Intermz in terms of Web 2.0, you can think of Intermz as a social network for concepts; instead of being a social graph, it’s a knowledge and idea graph.

   We are opening up our private beta tomorrow, September 15th. (If you’d like to try it, I can send you the access information!)

   We have two main questions for your guests:

   1) How do we make our central idea, learning by analogy, as commonly understood as social networking? Five or 10 years ago, “social networking” began as an abstract concept that was hard to communicate quickly. Now, it’s a ubiquitous part of our vocabulary and lives. How can Intermz speed its transition from abstraction to ubiquity?

   2) Our context articles, which we call “lenzes” because they make things more clear, must be written by users. How can we encourage them to contribute?

   Thanks a lot, and we look forward to reading your piece.

   Ted Pin
   Founder, Intermz.com

5. Ethan Bauley Says:
   September 15th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

   Killer idea Andrew, our interview would have been much better if we had a bunch of examples to talk about!!!

6. David Brim Says:
   September 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm

   Hello,
   I just came across this post. I am the co-founder of GroupTable.com a software designed specifically to help student groups improve their document management, communication and planning. We won several business plan competitions over the last year and launched GroupTable during the Spring Semester (late February) and are in beta. We have over 700 registered users and are now seeking angel funding and are looking for ways to grow our user base (college undergrad, grad and law students).

   I would be honored and very grateful if you used my start-up for your interviews. Feel free to visit our site or contact me with any further questions.

   Cheers

7. Varun Nayak Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 2:02 am

   Andrew,

   Thanks for leaving a comment on our blog – we would love it if you can use us as an example.

   At Socialesque, we’re 100% focused on user behavior analytics for new media – specializing in “analytics on demand” for social networks, online worlds, and video sharing.

   Our primary target is marketing agencies/brands who
   o want to use new media (video, rich media apps such as games) as a part of their marketing mix
   o want to leverage social networks to gain new, and as yet unseen insight into their target consumers

   We have built a flexible and scalable service that evolves with the business goals and gives innovators a clear line of sight into their users’ preferences in an unobtrusive manner.

   cheers,
   Varun

   Co-Founder Socialesque

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