Evri Revs Up with a Dead Tree Client
February 14, 2009
I was surprised to receive a news release from an outfit that was off my radar. The company is called Evri and I think it is located in Seattle. The company’s top dog is a former Amazon wizard named Neil Roseman. The core of the news release was:
[The] washingtonpost.com will start adding the Evri content recommendation widget to all article pages beginning this week. The Evri Widget launches on article pages as they are posted on the site with the goal of helping washingtonpost.com’s readers discover related content from the newspaper and from across the Web that complement the articles they are reading.
To me, this means that Evri is a text and content processing company. Its system generates See Also and Use For references for stories on the Washington Post Web site. Links illustrating the technology are:
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021301044.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021301596.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021301656.html
According to the new release:
Evri (www.evri.com) is a technology company developing products that change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web. Led by CEO Neil Roseman, Evri is a team of engineers with broad expertise in natural language processing and machine learning, who have delivered many successful Web products for great companies, including: Amazon.com; DoubleClick; Microsoft; Real Networks; Sony, Yahoo and more. Neil joined Evri after more than 10 years at Amazon.com, most recently as Vice President of Software. Evri is based in Seattle, WA and is funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital.
Paul Allen was in the news at the goose pond this week. Charter Communications, another Paul Allen venture, filed for bankruptcy. You can read the details here. My list of more than 350 content processing company now includes one more. More information as we receive it here in Harrod’s Creek.
The goslings and I congratulate the Washington Post on making the leap to automated systems. I wonder if the train has left the station. Newsweek seems to be limping and the last time I visited the Washington Post Web site about five minutes ago, performance seemed sluggish. Your mileage may vary. Network latency is a good way to explain architectural issues.
Stephen Arnold, February 14, 2009
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I don’t think the Washington Post is “making the leap to automated systems”. Where we now see the Evri widget at the bottom of articles, there was previously a widget powered by Inform. So the interesting question is: why the change in provider?
Neil Sanderson,
This type of switch is for a dead tree outfit a leap in my opinion.
Stephen Arnold, February 21, 2009