1990s:
The Meta-Guide.com project was first started during the Dot-Com Boom around 1998 by travel writer and author Marcus L. Endicott, mainly for his own purposes (R&D). It was an outgrowth of his former Green-Travel.com project, including the World Ecotourism Directory and Ecotourism Meta-Guide, and has been his attempt to leverage the bulk of travel and tourism resources available online in a single place.
2000s:
Meta-Guide.com was first archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine in 2001. The Destination Meta-Guide 2.0 as it became known was designed to be a powerful research tool, or discovery engine. It provided a special way of looking at the geographical world through the structure of the Internet, consisting of pre-programmed links to existing search devices, which returned dynamic - ever changing results. (A few countries were too large for best results, and a few too small, however most countries returned useful if not unique results.) Around 2009 the Destination Meta-Guide 2.0 lost its ASP hosting, and then failed to make the upgrade to ASP.NET.
2010s:
This latest incarnation, Meta-Guide.com 3.0, primarily involves the integration of the smart web feed or feed bot technology developed under 2.0 into a semantic conversational agent, or conversational expert system.
Project precepts:
1) Since essentially no investment capital is available for this project, everything must be free (Freemium) or affordable.
2) Since it must be free or affordable, high-end or even mid-grade hardware is not an option, and therefore solutions must be sought in the Cloud.
3) Becoming expert in new programming languages from scratch is also not an option; therefore, "turnkey" solutions and piecemeal contract programming are required.
4) Cloud-based WYSIWYG programming middleware, like Yahoo! Pipes, would be ideal; however, in reality a more robust, "enterprise grade" solution than Yahoo! Pipes is required.
5) Since so much effort is going into the Semantic Web already, that effort should be leveraged and built upon, indeed form a foundation or cornerstone.
6) Currently, there is no affordable robust, enterprise grade, turnkey dialog solution built on the semantic web available.
7) Because there is no such product yet, and considering the sheer scale involved, I am proposing "Open Chatbot Standards for a Modular Chatbot Framework".
MEndicott links:
Marcus Endicott - Google+
Marcus L Endicott - Summify
Marcus Endicott | Independent Researcher - Academia.edu
User contributions for Mendicott - Wikipedia
Marcus Endicott, appreciated member of Chatbots.org
AiDreams Posts - mendicott
AIML - Profile of mendicott.com
CiteULike: mendicott's library
mendicott's Public Timeline | bitly
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