3 month ago
Linkorama : Idea nodes & innovation - Ogle asks us to think spaces, not places, and to return to Kevin Kelly for answers. Breakthrough creativity comes about when the idea-spaces think for you.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Encouraging people to contribute knowledge - Further proof Google gets collective intelligence, but not collaborative intelligence. And they had to come up with something recommended ahead of Wikipedia.
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Collaborative Co-creation - We want to understand how people are coordinating with one another through either self-organizing mechanisms or through explicit organizing mechanisms; we want to understand the principles by which those things happen in these environments but not in othe
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Musing about collective intelligence and Agile - "And maybe that’s where collective intelligence should meet Agile. Where we use the power of well-established knowledge bases and tie it up to the experience of a large collective in order to focus on a problem, then use an accelerated evolutionary
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter - Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,†making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. Uh huh.
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23 month ago
Linkorama : Harnessing Collective Intelligence - With the help of our algorithms the community can outperform the market -- something most analysts can't do. That's not user-generated content, that's a cognitive community exhibiting super intelligent behavior.
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Linkorama : Are We Really Smarter Than Me? - The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence was officially launched today with a modest amount of speechifying and the announcement of an intriguing new experiment to create a Wikipedia-style community-authored book about how to use communities in business
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plasticbag : Dion Hinchcliffe reports on 'Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence' - I agree that the harnessing of collective intelligence is one of the core big ideas of the new bubble, but I'm not convinced by some of these examples.
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution - Looks like an interesting article, which I will attempt now to buy and read.
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plasticbag : Stowe Boyd discusses 'Efficiency v Belonging' in social tools - There's a bunch of research on why people participate in online communities, but very little on why they contribute to projects like Wikipedia (as far as I know). If anyone knows of some, could they tell me?
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Aaron Swartz asks, who writes Wikipedia? - most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users [via]
Nelson Minar : Who writes Wikipedia? - Aaron's campaigning, an interesting result on Wikipedia edits
plasticbag : Aaron's second essay on Wikipedia - "Who Writes Wikipedia" - is a bloody important read if you're interested in social software - If his contention is true - and it seems entirely plausible - then there are a lot of things we can learn from the existence of editors and the massively distributed content generation that's going on with Wikipedia
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Andy Baio : Google Image Labeler, the Google Images multiplayer game - Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google
plasticbag : Google Image Labeler - Basically it's the ESP game from a few years ago, only now actually being used (presumably under license) by Google. Interesting.
philgyford : Google Image Labeler - I'm trying not to let this useful game eat up all of my time, although it's getting a fair amount of it.
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere - Can social media increase and improve civic participation? If so, in what ways?
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29 month ago
cameron : O'Reilly Radar > Rewarding Users for Contributing Data - Monetary or material incentives aren't all that effective, "And once the reward is worth money, you'll get people contributing crap just to get the rewards. Your reward system is now paying people to piss in your data pool."
plasticbag : Nat Torkington on 'Rewarding Users for Contributing Data' - I couldn't agree more with a lot of this - points-based reputation / prestige systems and financial incentives are generally bad ways to reward contributions in social environments.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Crowd vs. Niche Knowledge - Entrepreneurs need to realize that niche knowledge adds more value than crowd knowledge. Niche knowledge solves difficult problems. Crowd knowledge tells you about trends, but trends are fleeting. Niches are less about trends and more about vision - they
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31 month ago
Andy Baio : Digg used for stock market manipulation? - the Google/Sun rumor is being spread by a particular cabal on Digg [via]
Linkorama : Collective Manipulation - Digg is used for Sun stock manipulation
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Humans in the Loop - Maybe we should be including some of the early systems thinkers in that remembrance as well. A lot of their big dreams didn't work out, and a few ended tragically. But we now have something they never had: experimental social cybernetics, at the scale of
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Spying on Digg - Now Digg has unveiled some radical improvements to Digg Spy, a page that shows a scrolling list of the stories people are digging (and dissing) in real time. When you go to Digg Spy, you are essentially watching democracy in action.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Systems for Collective Choice - Broadly, there seem to be three methods of collective choice, divided by the intended result: selection, opinion, or comparison.
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Linkorama : Networked creative intelligence - Gartner makes a prediction that by 2015, over 100 leading companies will have made or saved at least $10 million due to networked creative intelligence, which leverages virtual communities to create new sources of information and value.
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