Archives for April 2005
Jason Calacanis wrote:
The older I get the more I realize that business is about three very basic things:
Hustle
Passion
Resiliency
You have those things it really doesn’t matter what the idea is… you can change your ideas all day long, in fact evolving is what you’re supposed to do in business. However, you can’t substitute hustle, passion, […]
I’ve been hearing so much about Ruby on Rails lately that I wanted to try it for myself. As an experiment I decided to port the XPlanner planning tool for XP/agile teams. This was only a partial porting effect focused on the core XPlanner functionality.
I experienced a few minor challenges at the start of this […]
We all have had experience with crowds that weren’t very smart. Mobs are carried away in irrational behavior. Committees often generate little or no useful results. However, modern research has found that, given the right conditions, crowds can be very intelligent. They can actually be more intelligent than the smartest members of the crowd. This book describes the conditions necessary to tap into the wisdom of the crowd and describe many fascinating case studies and research findings. I believe it’s important that our society learns how to increasingly tap the mind of the many and lessen our reliance on so-called expert opinion and commentary.
Resources:
I’m interested in exploring ways groups can tap into their collective intelligence. One mechanism for doing this are trading markets like the stock market. Recently, there’s also been significant research activity in the area of prediction markets and their ability to predict trends or likelihood of future events.
Yahoo Research Labs is experimenting with a prediction […]