Kreeo is an interesting Bangalore based startup working on sematics based knowledge management. Their goal is to create a platform where users can discover new knowledge, share their knowledge and collectively harness the knowledge gained from the social interaction. Think of it as Mahalo, the human powered search engine, but with added semantics.
In Kreeo, the core concept revolves around a BOK – aka, a Body Of Knowledge. The BOK framework is simply a set of predefined common terms. Each BOK item is a knowledge item.
For example, consider the following screenshot about the BOK on AJAX Programming. Not only does it have various knowledge sections related to AJAX like Introduction, History of AJAX, Features of AJAX, advantages- disadvantages, popular AJAX frameworks etc, it also has various sections like Questions related to AJAX programming, quick examples, tips & tricks, links to external news and blog items etc.
Here’s the section for each BOK which adds the additional semantics:
While these sections add the semantics to the data itself, I wasnt able to figure out if the site is making use of actual semantic technologies (like RDF / Sparql etc.) and if so, how.
Kreeo is definitely a promising startup with some great technology. However, getting new, quality knowledge on the site will remain a challenge. Companies like Mahalo, Wikia, which fall in the similar domain are well funded and have some accomplished entrepreneurs behind them. Mahalo also has paid editors for content generation.
I have two main suggestions for the Kreeo team -
1) Simplify the concept and navigation on the site. It took some time for me to grasp what BOK was all about. I dont expect a technically less savvy individual to easily understand what the site is all about
2) The Site is pretty darn slow at times, but considering that they are in alpha, getting this corrected shouldnt be difficult. The sooner the better – not to alienate the early adopter crowd.
Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Thanks pranav for an encouraging review.
Their are a lot of things still not in order, we are working on it continuously and updates are being made daily. We will soon introduce a animated demo to simplify understanding the BOK way of sharing.
Kreeo has been brought to its current stage with minimal resources. We are just hosted on a c2d box. A small glitch was their that we have fixed, the site is now performing better.
The current design is an outcome of suggestions of alpha users over the past 6 months, our development philosophy is to keep on evolving Kreeo based on the feedback and suggestions of users, so that professionals can ultimately create a platform based on their ideas and have the power to change it.
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