Web 2.0, Harnessing
Collective Intelligence
From
Amazon and Google to craigslist, eBay and Wikipedia, it has been observed that
value of data has been managed by software, but it was co created for connected
users of community. Since that time, new and powerful platforms like Twitter,
Facebook and YouTube have demonstrated that similar insight in advanced manner.
Web 2.0 is all about
harnessing collective intelligence.
The Web is no longer considered as a set of static HTML pages that explain
something valuable in world. Increasingly, world of web-everyone and everything
in the world casts a shadow of information, a data aura which when processes
and captured effectively provides mind bending and extraordinary opportunity
implications.
Web
2.0 is basically the concept which is extensively used for describing large
number of applications and web sites that permit any user to develop and share
material or information online. An essential factor of technology is that it
permits individuals to communicate, collaborate, share and develop essential
information. Web 2.0 technology varies from other kinds of websites as skills
of publishing or designs of web are not needed in it to participate, thus it
provides convenience and comfort for people to publish and collaborate their
activities or tasks to rest of the world. The nature of Web 2.0 technology
makes it popular and easy method for transmitting information either to a large
group of audience or to selective group of individuals. Two of the famous Web
2.0 sites include YouTube which is used for watching videos and Flicker which
is used for creating and posting photographs. An individual profile can also be
created by users where they can list down their famous videos or photos. Users
are capable to comment and rate on photos or videos and give feedback to users
and other creators.
Applications
of collective intelligence rest upon responding, understanding and managing
large number of data that has been generated by user in real time. The emerging
sub systems of emerging operating system of internet include recognition of
places, products and people and meaning of skeins that associate them together.
This results in development of levers which provides a competitive edge to
Intel Inside. Data is basically “Intel Inside” of upcoming generation for
different applications of computer.
Today,
a realization has been created that such insights were not moving in a right
direction but were practically being implied at specific locations that were
only imagined previously in last few years. The revolution of smart phones has
shifted web technology to pockets from desks. Applications of collective
intelligence are not particularly driven by keyboard typing which was a
traditional method used by human beings. Our cameras and phones are now
transformed into ears and eyes for various applications, location sensors and
motion that provide us information about how fast we are moving, on which
things we are looking at and where we are present. Data is being acted upon,
presented and collected in real time. The participation scale has enhanced by
sequence of magnitude.
Nice post Tam, you've covered not one but two topics all in the one blog! There is a worksheet to help you with your next blog entries as well - you'll see that it's split into two differnt pages, one covers group A stuff, and the other covers group B stuff. You've covered a few different platforms with the "Harnessing the collective intelligence" article, so I think if you concentrated on just one, you'd be able to go into those best practices that are covered in that worksheet. For example, you could cover off that eBay is service which trusts it's users as it facilitates transactions between people without checking whether any of the goods are genuine or even exist.
ReplyDeleteIt's up to you though, as it is your blog, but you might notice as you go along other blogs that this is the method most people are using.
Great post though, I've not seen anyone cover off both concepts before :)
thanks for your comment and will notice that ,, thanks again :)
ReplyDeleteGood job, I agree with BrokenNikon (the previous comment) and I also liked your blog but it would be more attractive if you can update it by adding a reference list, clickable links and images that readers can refer to.
ReplyDeleteRegards.
Hi Tam,
ReplyDeleteThat was a very informative post and a good read. I do agree with Younis about adding a reference list so that others can see if the information is reliable or not. Also as a designer, I would have really loved to see some visuals but it is just my opinion. But all in all, the content was interesting!
Check out my blog for Team B stuff: http://rnichelletee.blogspot.com.au/