Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.

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Featuring:

• Evan Prodromou – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

The Power of Wikis

• Wikitravel
• MediaWiki
• Wikivoyage
• Wikihow
• Wikimedia Foundation

The Problem with Social Networks

• Social Web Working Group
• Pump.io
• Identica
• GNU Social
• Tent.io
• Micro.blog
• JSON Feed

The Promise of A.I.

• Fuzzy.ai
• AlphaGo

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!