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Avanoo - Harness the wisdom of communities
Social news has been all the rage among the tech-savvy but, it's failed to hit home with the everyman. Digg and Reddit are massively popular with the geek set -- the place to be if you want to know what a tech heavy male between 18 and 24 thinks -- but, what about everyone else?
Enter Avanoo. Not a social news site, not really a social networking site, Avanoo is something different. Collecting the wisdom of its community, Avanoo is poised to give you some amazing insight into what everyone thinks, or what a tiny demographic based slice of everyone thinks.
It works like this; Avanoo users ask questions with finite numbers of answers, which are then posed to the community of Avanoo users. Answers are collected and available for the community to view. Simple enough? Sure, but this is where it starts to become seriously cool. In the style of "give a little to get a little", Avanoo users can mine the polling data they've helped create by giving a little data of their own. Want to know how 18-24 year olds felt? Give your own age. Want to know how people with an income below $30,000/year feel? Give your own income.
Avanoo's president Dan Jacobs tells me it's all about perspective, "The wisdom of crowds fails because the crowd has no perspective, the wisdom of experts fails because the expert doesn't share your perspective." Avanoo essentially allows you to define the perspective, "the lens" if you will, through which you want to view the world; Something that a whole host of social news sites have failed to do.
The brilliance in Avanoo is its simplicity; it's an idea which makes you smack your head and wonder, "Why didn't I think of that." Avanoo enters public beta today, and anticipates that it will soon be open to in excess of 10,000 users.
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Subscribe to commentsSt3phenMay 14th 2007 12:26PM
I wouldn't mind trying this out....
BrianMay 14th 2007 12:28PM
This sounds interesting. I'll give it a shot.
KLMMay 14th 2007 12:32PM
Sounds interesting. I'll give it a try.
ChrisMay 14th 2007 12:40PM
Throw me an invite!
Richard LankfordMay 14th 2007 12:42PM
I would like an invite, please.
escaMay 14th 2007 12:44PM
i would also like an invite please.
pantharMay 14th 2007 12:44PM
This looks like a great resource - I would love to try it out!
Theodore CarrasMay 14th 2007 1:00PM
I'd also quite like an invite, thanks.
Rob StevensMay 14th 2007 1:04PM
Could be useful for a college student ... inexpensive market research, though the reliability might need to be proven.
IxnayMay 14th 2007 1:05PM
This looks pretty cool, can't wait to get my hands on this and see how it works.
Spencer RosengartenMay 14th 2007 1:08PM
If this takes off, I can see it being absorbed by the Googleplex. I'll take an invite, too, please :-)
Spencer
HaniMay 14th 2007 1:22PM
Sounds new and interesting, would love to try it.
Gary HodgsonMay 14th 2007 1:17PM
Sounds interesting, can I have an invite please?
Aaron HallamMay 14th 2007 1:20PM
Oh, that looks like it could be very cool.
I'd like an invite, please.
Mike S.May 14th 2007 1:21PM
Love an invite
BoZs13May 14th 2007 1:23PM
Throw me an invite...looks interesting!
amgMay 14th 2007 2:53PM
This has some interesting ideas...I am curious enough to help.
dzapponeMay 14th 2007 1:27PM
This sort of reminds me of John Brunner's Oracle Pool.
"First you corner a large - if possible, a very large - number of people who, while they've never formally studied the subject you're going to ask them about and hence are unlikely to recall the correct answer, are nonetheless plugged into the culture to which the question relates.
Then you ask them, as it might be, to estimate how many people died in the great influenza epidemic which followed World War I...
Curiously, when you consolidate their replies they tend to cluster around the actual figure as recorded in almanacs, yearbooks and statical returns.
It's rather as though this paradox has proved true: that while nobody knows what's going on around here, everybody knows what's going on around here.
Well, if it works for the past, why can't it work for the future? Three hundred million people with access to the integrated North American data-net is a nice big number of potential consultees."
John Brunner, Shockwave Rider 1975
I'd love to check Avanoo out so count me in please.
BradMay 14th 2007 1:34PM
I'd really like an invite!
kitsilanoguyMay 14th 2007 1:39PM
throw me an invite pls