Indeed, the idea of collective intelligence has been embodied within Web 2.0 trend.
Amazon.com recommender system is a collective intelligence for artifact recommendation. De.lic.ious is a collective intelligence application for artifact categorization. Smartocracy is a collective intelligence application for collective policy making. These systems, and their relatives, all take the perspective of a diverse group of individuals and use that information to support the collective either at the local level (personal recommendations) or the global level (social decision making). Even algorithms like Google's PageRank is a collective intelligence algorithm for recommending prestigious websites. Given the local perspectives of webpage authors (their href links to other pages), the aggregate network structure provides the medium for the PageRank algorithm to calculate a webpage's rank/prestige based on its location in the network. Marko. On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 19:10 +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote: > That's a good summary of the basic book thesis, but in my > humble opinion it is already widely applied, because it seems > to be the fundamental principle behind the "Web 2.0" buzzword. > The power of "Web 2.0" systems comes from the centralization > of decentralized information, from the unification and aggregation > of widely distributed knowledge: user-generated content > (file-sharing, information-sharing, blogs, blogging, and wikis) > and user-organized content (tags, tagging, and "folksonomy"), see > http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/systems/index.php/Web_2.0 > > -J. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:02 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam > Subject: [FRIAM] Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Crowds: Books: James Surowiecki > > The thesis is that good decisions can be made by crowds if they are: > - Diverse > - Independent > - Decentralized > - Good method for aggregating the results. > > I started on the book a while back while discouraged after the > democrats shot themselves in the foot the last election. Thinking > crowds were stupid, I was surprised a bit by the author's thesis. > > Anyone read it? Have opinions? Got ideas how to apply it to > community modeling? > > -- Owen > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Marko A. Rodriguez CCS-3 Modeling, Algorithms and Informatics Los Alamos National Laboratory Phone +1 505 606 1691 Fax +1 505 665 6452 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
