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FOAF – Friend of a friend
FOAF – is an ingenious little application that allows you to create an RDF about yourself, and your friends. You can create your own RDF file simply by visiting the FOAF-a-Matic. According to the FOAF Website: FOAF-a-matic is a simple … Continue reading
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Think New Ideas: Collective Intelligence Research
Think New Ideas: A Collaborative Research Community ThinkNewIdeas.com is a community of forward thinking individuals interested in learning how to facilitate global collaboration. The group will explore and share how Web 2.0 technologies can be successfully used to create and … Continue reading
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Wikipedia: Collective Intelligence at Work
Wikipedia: A case study in global collective intelligence In order to understand collective intelligence more clearly, we need to study one of the strongest and prime examples of collective knowledge building on the Web.That is Wikipedia.Despite earlier questions regarding it’s … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: WikiMedia vs Content Management Systems
Recently I have been researching my own collective intelligencesuite of applications.I have been systematically trying and experimenting numerous solutions. Here I will share with you some of my preliminary conclusions for corporate knowledge sharing applications: WikiMedia This is open source … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: Research
Thomas Malone (2006) has defined collective intelligence as: “Groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent”As reported in earlier postings, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is working deligently to answer the following: “How can people and computers be … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence hopes to answer the question: “How can people and computers be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?” Klein (2007) addressed the inherent problems … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: What is collective intelligence and augmented social cognition?
Collective Intelligence Collective intelligencecan be defined as an organically grown bank of knowlege, which providesthe group with a totalsum of knowledge that is fargreater than what each individual member could produce or realize on their own. Information within collective intelligenceis … Continue reading
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Collaborative Intelligence: Wikis for Business
Collaborative Intelligence: Wikis for Business In today’s top Fortune 500 companies, wikis are becoming thecollaborative tool of choicefor building vast store houses of corporate knowledge. Wikis are relativelyeasy touse and manage,and are surprisingly versatile in their functionality. Innovation and knowledge … Continue reading
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Web 2.0: Collective Intelligence
Rays of Collective Intelligence within the Web 2.0 environment: Web 2.0 is aboutWeb usersconnecting together and collectively creating and sharing knowledge. It is an extremely powerful and exciting concept which I find particularly compelling.It is also the basic foundationofthe theory … Continue reading
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The Semantic Web: Evolving Knowledge
Today we are awash in key worded blogs, RSS feeds and automated agents which seek out content based on our requirements, and bring it back to us on a regular basis. But at the beginning of this millenium, the idea … Continue reading
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