FLIRTing with the Crowds

From last days’ big news, This is striking me pretty close to heart. We (me and three friends) were traveling in India in October when Benazir Bhutto finally returned home from her self-imposed exile to run at the election next year. Her company got attacked by jihadist terrorists right after her return to the country […]

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Some buzz has recently been generated around Jimmy Wales’s apparent move to search engine business with Wikia Search. While it has been argued that, especially with the reported gamings of Digg and similar services, introducing a human element to online search is sure to introduce also attempts to artificially work the system, others assert […]

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Hitwise’s findings in its study on participation (as reported by Reuters here) has stirred discussion on whether or not the new media is that participative after all. For those that haven’t heard about this, Hitwise found that only 0.16% of visits to web 2.0 site Flickr were to upload photos. “Participation on Web 2.0 sites […]

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An excellent campaign by Fleim.fi (a Finnish youth magazine / web community promoting Christian values and viewpoint). They encourage people to make religion a more personal issue by pimping their bibles and posting them to the website where they are then rated by everybody. Paint, felt pens, cloth, glue, wire, or anything else people can […]

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There’s an enlightening article on Wired magazine on how the digital crowds can be manipulated by enterprising parties to bias the collective judgement to their own favor. A great reminder that even with large populations, the objectivity of the system can and will be tampered with, especially if the issue is left without attention.

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The FLIRT model of crowdsourcing / collective customer collaboration is open for comments.

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I am. With the torrent of social media networks available, the incentive to sign up for yet another service that would bring you tons of new friends and make your life a constant bliss (should you ever log in again after registering) is slowly wearing out.
That doesn’t mean thinking that I already have too many […]

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IBM releases many eyes, a swivel-esque, although more versatile web service for visualizing data.
Both applications aim to capture the collective wisdom for exploring meaningful patterns in seemingly irrelevant data. But where Swivel focuses on comparing data sets through graphs only, many eyes offers a range of tools, including maps, graphs, scatterplots, network diagrams, pie charts […]

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