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Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community using a wisdom of crowds based approach to discover new business and technology ideas. These pages are being kept online as a technology demo to showcase Chaordix™.

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Lets Eat Our Own Dog Food

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  • Created: Jul 13, 2006, 9:13 am
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The Idea

Use the principles of 'The Wisdom of Crowds' to test and refine the Cambrian House concept. Every aspect of the site, from design to business model should be constantly exposed to the judgement of its users. . For example, each page could have a 'Can we do this better?' link which users click to get a form for suggesting changes to the page in question. . The site and the business would evolve continuously, based on feedback from users, in the same way that product ideas are selected for development. . We could also pull in non-expert opinions by using prize promotions like 'Weigh Our Goat' to get a good mix of expertise and ignorance. . The resulting data would be used to make the improvements the crowd wants, and to back up fund raising efforts.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Reading the book.


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motiggidy
motiggidy Posted: July 17, 2006, 3:49 pm

I had planned on asking CH about this seeming philosophical contradiction myself. It seems very reasonable that if crowdsourcing is so cool that they would want their site to be crowdsourced doesn't it? Perhaps they will do this at some point and already have it planned? Perhaps their VC's wanted control of the final product and so they can not turn it over to the user community? Perhaps they just don't have the software for crowdsource development (code named chameleon?) ready yet or all the bugs are not worked out? I look forward to hearing other theories or even facts direct from our mysterious hosts.

 

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