This is a prime example of a Collective Intelligence at work.
Users of this site have the ability to access and/or suggest links in a database full of viral videos, internet memes, games and lists categorized by date of occurrence, popularity and other factors.
Also, the users can participate in social networking directly on the site with one another through comments, chat rooms, and posing questions to the entire community.
The navigation is set up to easily extract trends of this collective intelligence, such as most viewed/bookmarked/commented/rated etc...
The most popular & emailed link today is The Marshmallow Test.
"A handful of kids take The Marshmallow Test and you`ve never seen such cute willpower in your life."
The most bookmarked link today is a picture"The Lion King Happens In Real Life?" - "Is that Timon and Pumbaa?"
[edit: Due to bandwidth issues I am posting the picture from another source]
//dethouars
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That is just pure cruel and unusual punishment for the kids. I know for certain that if that was a piece of dark chocolate I would not last more than 2 secs.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to collective intelligence, "enabling the machine", web2.0, etc. it is all very new and fascinating to me (I usually study human communication). It has become very apparent that with advancing technology and the popularity of such mediums, human relationships are changing. The are becoming more open yet secretive at the same time. That isn't even to begin to mention to relationship and trust humans are forming with computers....kind of scary to some degree.