1 Studies show...

Phrases like “Studies show that” should not be used without a citation. If you’re aware of these studies, why not cite them? If you don’t, you might just have misremembered, or (for all I know) you could have made it up.

posted at 01:57 pm on May 5, 2009 by Thom Blake

2 Strong Community = Web 2.0 success

This really has some great points for community development. For a web 2.0 site to survive, it relies heavily on it’s community. Granted, I don’t have a social website of my own as I primarily film and post real estate video, but it was something I was always interested in learning about. Thanks for the info.

posted at 06:33 pm on May 5, 2009 by bremmel

3 blandness of crowds?

Has anyone investigated the flip side of WOC? That is, all the stuff we miss because it ends up beyond page 1 of Google results, or below the fold of a list ordered by popularity?
I’d call this the ‘Blandness of Crowds’: what floats to the top is often what appeals to most people: YouTube videos of cats, Flickr images of sunsets, and so on.
As a means to get to the most important information, WOC rules. As a means to get the most interesting information, “BOC” obstructs.

posted at 05:28 am on May 6, 2009 by zeptimius

4 well designed systems don't have to be simple

I argue with the idea of it having to be simple. Think of wikipedia.org —  the feedback from the crowd is very complex and yet the system brings about a great collection of high quality content. I don’t think the idea of Wisdom of the Crowd has to be limited to algorithms and voting machines, although that’s a great use!

Like most things, if it’s well designed and thought out — I’m not just talking about the user interface, but also the ideas and logic behind it — then you’re likely to get great results. Same applies in reverse. Poor design and you’ll get poor results.

posted at 11:18 pm on May 6, 2009 by Derrek Pearson

5 Strong Comunity

argue with the idea of it having to be simple. Think of wikipedia.org — the feedback from the crowd is very complex and yet the system brings about a great collection of high quality content. I don’t think the idea of Wisdom of the Crowd has to be limited to algorithms and voting machines, although that’s a great use!

Like most things, if it’s well designed and thought out — I’m not just talking about the user interface, but also the ideas and logic behind it — then you’re likely to get great results. Same applies in reverse. Poor design and you’ll get poor results.

posted at 09:52 am on May 7, 2009 by Joshua

6 Shopping

Derek, are shopping choices a type of ‘Wisdom of Community’ behaviour?
I’m interested in Sustainability and the environment so I’m referring in particular to choices which can determine the items a supermarket will stock in the future, for example people shopping selectively for Fair Trade, Organic, local-sourced, or products with less packaging (esp. plastics).

posted at 11:44 am on May 7, 2009 by Nurielirotem

7 Community Make Everything Strong

Thank you very much for the info. As I knew the point is “Community Make Everything Strong” Sorry if I wrong,but that is the fact :-)

Rully Nugraha

posted at 04:18 am on May 8, 2009 by ruifa

8

A good article, but I agree it could do with better citation. I write [url=“www.embooks.co.uk/p-55-elephant-books.aspx”]Elephant Books[/url] and would very angry if people used it for source data but didn’t reflect this correctly

posted at 12:40 pm on May 11, 2009 by sandra_387

9 Nice article!

Web 2.0 is all about social networking and strengthening your brand presence over the Internet. And it is very important to appeal to the niche audiences and build a favorable online reputatation.

posted at 10:52 am on May 12, 2009 by Maneet Puri

10 Strength of community

social networking sites helps to know about everything with the short period of time. From networking sites we can know the current date new technology.

posted at 08:11 am on May 13, 2009 by sugitha