Cool People Finder

This is pretty cool: submit the name of any company and find out what previous employees are up to now. Eliyon, the company behind this service (which is basically a showcase for their technologies), uses AI and natural language processing to extract relevant data from a variety of online resources; they've also just received $7m in funding, so someone sees value in the technology. This kind of alumni search would be powerful within a social network - would be great to see a user's entire employment history, and visualise their relationships based on chronology and company. I can smell a new XML schema...

Posted by monoman at 01:07 PM on July 21, 2004