Brad Feld has made several posts on a subject that where indirectly treated in my Venture with Wit post. The TAR problem is the following :
- Trust
- Attention
- Relevance
Brad has invested in several companies trying to solve this tryptic (such as Me.dium, Lijit, Collective Intellect, and HiveLive) I am currently trying Lijiit (great!) and became a reader of its CTO blog (who loves the same comics as I do) and is quite insightfull. They all tried to get a name for the solution in a ping pong post serie, and they came with : Intelligence Amplification.
Ryan (Brad Partner @ Moebius Venture) explains how he came with the term and where it comes from.
I think this term applies very well to what is enabled when you combine
elements of social networking, open-source knowledge (I rely heavily on
Wikipedia for links in many of my blog posts), trusted relationships, folksonomy/tagging (see the wisdom-of-crowds at work with Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Digg, etc), collaborative filters, search engines and other tools that use the internet to coordinate human-to-human sharing of knowledge and information. These tools use algorithms to leverage human activities and human minds belonging to millions of strangers, and, increasingly
friends and acquaintances, to help us find relevance in the flood of information we are trying to stay afloat in.
I like this term and I think it’s quite interesting because I agree with the gang about web 3.0: semantic web is EPIC and not for tomorrow. So we have to put Human Computation to reach such objectives as thoses of the semantic web. It could be Collaborative Filtering or anotation …. but Human is key to create smart links and paths of dicovery or knowledge.
I love ping pong (unfortunately none of them has trackback) and it seems that we will have over the next few weeks the smart discussion I was hopping for in my previous post.
