Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Radar Theme: Collective Intelligence via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Nat Torkington on 8/13/08 [This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly]
"None of us is as dumb as all of us," but the opposite of this profound truth is also true. Systems that channel individual behaviours to create new and valuable data are showing up everywhere. We point to Amazon Recommendations as the canonical example, but it's hard to find an area that isn't using individual actions to produce collective wisdom. Watchlist: Luis von Ahn, Intrade, Robin Hanson, David Pennock, Slashdot Karma. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
