Webopi - a somewhat crazy idea - or a revolution :)
“Webopi is a way to add and read reviews of any website: An item in an online shop, CNN’s article, hosting company offer… and it doesn’t matter whether a posibility of leaving a review is or is not given by the owners of those websites.”
I really think it’s a cool idea. Try it:
July 19th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I think its a good idea. Check out http://web.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html for some ideas on how to make it even more useful.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Damn it! I was pretty sure this is a unique concept
And I was so proud if it…
I feel just like in 2001, when I thought, hey: what if I build a search engine, which will count links to every website (from other websites), and websites with more links would be “more important” and would gain higher positions in search engine results? Cooool….
Then I found an article about Google’s PageRank.
But, about uTOK - it looks like this guy thought about it in 1999, so I’m 8 years late :). But it also seems that this isn’t under development anymore?
Do you know of any “living” software like this?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:14 am
There are none (as far as I can tell). There are web services that can do something similar though. The ones I know of (that are popular) are StumbleUpon and Gabbly.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Ah yes - I know about StumbleUpon, but I believe the way Webopi works is better:) I’m just a little afraid that without advertising it won’t start up, well, time will show how it will continue.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I hope there’s some sort of monitoring/editing of comments, though. Judging from the antics of some users of the Web, some of the comments on the MS site by fanatic Apple users (and vice versa) or by Firefox users on the IE site, etc, would not be worth reading. On a page such as this comments could be deleted if over the top, but who does it for Webopi? I think you’d be very busy, Konrad!
July 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Thanks Alan, good point. First however, Webopi must become popular before I start worrying about it
And then maybe some voting system - so other users will be able to vote for comment removal and if more than let’s say 30% of all voters wishes a comment to be removed, it will be removed automatically. Everything can be solved, I hope:)
November 13th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Is this anything like the items described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation or something totally new? I suppose I could check it out and see for myself, but I wanted to give you this info anyhoot. :p Socializing the web is a great idea that could really help some people to gather needed info much more efficiently. It would truely be an arduous task deciding how the censorship system would work. Too much ‘censorship by popular opinion’ is shite due to the ‘lowest common denominator’ factor, but there would be too much flame war trolling, ‘look at me’ idiocy and spam obfuscating the useful info without any form of censorship. There is a fine line to be walked there, but not a straight one.