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One potential flaw in the model is that responsibility for support for the resulting products will fall to the community. While online forums have often given me the answer to computer problems, many consumers might balk at the lack of a reliable, trained tech support department (though that
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- Crowds should operate within constraints. To harness the collective intelligence of crowds, there need to be rules in place to maintain order.
- Not everything can be democratic. Sometimes a decision needs to be made, and having a core team (or single person) make the ultimate decision can provide the guidance necessary to get things done and prevent crazy ideas and groupthink from wreaking havoc on your product.
- Crowds must retain their individuality. Encourage your group to
disagree, and try not to let any members of the group disproportionately influence the rest. - Crowds are better at vetting content than creating it. It is important to note that in most of the above projects, the group merely votes on the final product; they do not actually create it (even at Cambrian House, where the group collaborates to create the product, individuals are still creating each piece on their own and the group votes on whose implementation of an idea is best).
ollowing rules to help assure success in tapping the wisdom of crowds:
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digg is not only a poster-child for Web 2.0
success, it is also an excellent example of using the wisdom of crowds to
organize and highlight information. digg's concept is simple: users submit links
to websites, articles, news stories, photos, or videos, and other users vote on
whether they are worth checking out. Depending on how many people, who, and how
quickly links are "dugg" they may be promoted to the main page as a worthy link
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StumbleUpon is a browser plugin for
Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows users to rate and share web pages. The
plugin is very straightforward: users vote thumbs up or thumbs down on pages and
are served random pages based on their previous picks, specified topic areas of
interest, and the picks of other like-minded users. The idea is that the
sites with the most thumbs up votes, will be the most relevant. Further, users
are fed sites that were voted up by others who share a similar vote history -
i.e. the more you use StumbleUpon, the more it learns about what you like and
the better recommendations it gives to everyone.
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Frances DiDavideThe "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James Surowiecki’s book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two ...
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Crowdsourcing can be broken down in to three categories:
1. creation (like Wikipedia);
2. prediction (like Yahoo! Buzz); and
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- Crowds should operate within constraints. To harness the collective intelligence of crowds, there need to be rules in place to maintain order.
- Not everything can be democratic. Sometimes a decision needs to be made, and having a core team (or single person) make the ultimate decision can provide the guidance necessary to get things done and prevent crazy ideas and groupthink from wreaking havoc on your product.
- Crowds must retain their individuality. Encourage your group to
disagree, and try not to let any members of the group disproportionately influence the rest. - Crowds are better at vetting content than creating it. It is important to note that in most of the above projects, the group merely votes on the final product; they do not actually create it (even at Cambrian House, where the group collaborates to create the product, individuals are still creating each piece on their own and the group votes on whose implementation of an idea is best).
rules to help assure success in tapping the wisdom of crowds:
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At Cambrian House
, people submit ideas for software
products and then vote on which ideas are the best, commenting on changes or improvements they would like to see made. Development of the most popular ideas is then sourced to members of the community, who earn "royalty points" that determines how much each contributor makes. Cambrian House can be looked at as a commercial spin on the classic
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Although Cambrian House crowdsources the conception and creation of its web products, ideas are subject to editorial review by a core
team and actual production is subject to a set of quality guidelines. In the case of
conflicting code or design contributions, the community decides which is the best. - 9 more annotations...
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william doustcrowdsourcing
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Paul SweeneyGreat Review of CrowdSourcing
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fund, which now has $44 million in assets, has outperformed the S&P 500 Index (generally considered a good gauge of the U.S. equities market) and has an average annual return of 11.4% since its inception. However it has managed just a 2-star rating from Morningstar. That equates to an above average risk and a below average return, according to the Morningstar rating system.
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The wisdom of crowds is all around us these days. Wikipedia is one of the best known examples of the concept at work. Thousands of
Wikipedia users have created an encyclopedia that studies have shown is as accurate as traditional volumes like Britannica.
Another well-known project is the Yahoo! Buzz Game, which is a prediction market for "high-tech products, concepts, and trends." Their memetracker market, for example, has predicted the state of the market
in line with Alexa data.
Note: Read/WriteWeb covered a Yahoo! event about prediction markets here.
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Crowdsourcing can be looked at as an application of the wisdom of crowds concept, in which the knowledge and talents of a group of people is leveraged to create content and solve problems. The official definition from the term’s originator, Jeff Howe, is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call."
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Crowdsourcing can be broken down in to three categories:
1. creation (like Wikipedia);
2. prediction (like Yahoo! Buzz); and
3. organization (like Google). - 1 more annotations...
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Peter Shanksan article on using the wisdom of crowds for creation, prediction and organisation - along with some links to some web sites that are working with their visitors in interesting ways
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