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elcapitan
Awesome lists are the new yahoo.
melling
Now we need to build search around it. Put all the machine learning Uris in a vertical search engine so you can ask it questions.
elcapitan
And extend to other fields. "Awesome Politicians". "Awesome car dealers in SF".
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melling
You're joking? The idea is to take a topic with a lot of specific knowledge and build vertical search around it so you can go deeper on that topic. There exists an Awesome Swift, for example, with a lot of static data.

https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift

I'd like to build a search engine with all Swift urls and allow the user to make queries.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

break out books, for instance.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/books

When I get a few minutes, I'll add links to the source code for the books.

Show me SpriteKit articles within the past 30 days:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=30&q=spritekit

romaniv
Not sure it's a bad thing. Yahoo worked when the internet was smaller. For fields with reasonable amount of information the model is better than just searching for stuff.
elcapitan
Yeah, 'curation' seems to be a larger trend anyway.
dhj
For those of you wondering about the "awesome list" phenomenon (as I was). It is a git repository that is marked as being a curated list of awesome things. Here is a manifesto:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/awesome....

Edit: Don't know if any other infrastructure has sprung up around it. Maybe an awesome list of awesome tools?