Monday, December 11, 2006
Open Source is Coming
It is self evident today that everyone talks about a participatory web - insight 2.0, conversations, engagement, storytelling, storypushing, dialogue. Should I go on?
Well as technology shifts and our cultural and social appraisals also shift of how we use and apply that same technology it seems obvious to me that the last great leap forwards comes from uniting minds - the principle that many people are better than one (or even just a few people).
So today I saw that a new search engine is launching called ChaCha. A human powered search engine that has the intelligence of the human mind allied to the database reach of technology. That is a hard to match combination.
So we have Wikipedia for knowledge....
We have ChaCha for search....
When will we have ParticipantFusion for marketing research....?
Heh - even the US and Russia can work together now. I saw it on the NASA tracker for the Space Shuttle - that means any of us can work together!
Well as technology shifts and our cultural and social appraisals also shift of how we use and apply that same technology it seems obvious to me that the last great leap forwards comes from uniting minds - the principle that many people are better than one (or even just a few people).
So today I saw that a new search engine is launching called ChaCha. A human powered search engine that has the intelligence of the human mind allied to the database reach of technology. That is a hard to match combination.
So we have Wikipedia for knowledge....
We have ChaCha for search....
When will we have ParticipantFusion for marketing research....?
Heh - even the US and Russia can work together now. I saw it on the NASA tracker for the Space Shuttle - that means any of us can work together!
