I’ve been a longtime fan of Rich Skrenta, who you might know as the author of the world’s first computer virus. He’s also on our board of advisors, and he founded a search startup — blekko.com.
Blekko’s claim to fame is that it attempts to meld human curation with traditional Google-style search algorithms. It’s what they call slashtags.
As originally announced on meta, the Stack Overflow community has agreed to help curate the programming side of blekko hashtags. So far that includes: …