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I noticed a tiny little site called <a href="http://www.youwereme.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1">youwereme.com</a>. The premise is essentially a ‘live’ version of Yahoo! Answers. You post your question to the pool of folk and somebody will give their opinion back. Should I quit my job, should I dump my boyfriend - that kind of thing. On the outside you could argue that it’s a pretty good idea. Utilising the collective "intelligence" of the net to solve your life problems. So I register and say “I want to answer” and wait… and wait… What? Nobody wants my advice? Actually nobody is there… … and there probably never will be. I would love to see the business plan for this – especially the conversion funnel: <ul> <li>If I have a burning question that needs answering and...</li> <li>If I feel that the net is the right place to solve it and...</li> <li>If any of my existing social networks can’t / won’t help and...</li> <li>If I happen to hear about this site and...</li> <li>If somebody happens to be logged on and...</li> <li>If they happen to be in my demographic / region...</li> </ul> Then I might be able to ask my question. Phew. I reckon SETI has better odds. Now, obviously this sort of thing needs critical mass to work. It has just started up and I have no idea how they plan to market it. But really. I’m only using these guys as an example – I recently subscribed to <a href="http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com">Everything 2.0</a> - Bob Stumpel’s excellent source of … well… everything 2.0 and am astounded that he posts about 10 sites a day. Most of them are doomed from the start because they make the assumption there the fraction of the fraction of the fraction is going to be sufficient to give a good user experience and make cash out of it. The other thing I noticed this week was <a href="http://www.younoodle.com">younoodle.com</a>. Now these guys are getting a fair amount of coverage. They have apparently developed an AI that will predict how your start-up is going to do over the next five years. Fantastic. Totally eliminates the need for a stock market, investors and, well, luck. The site is there now but the AI ain’t so who knows what it does. I’ll bet, however, that somebody put a large whack of cash into it. Recession on the way. Ill-advised spending on technology. Recruitment costs up 40%. Is it just me or haven’t we seen all this before? Jon Bains is Chairman of <a href="http://www.lateral.net"> Lateral </a> .

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2008-02-21T08:20:00+00:00

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I haven’t had a whole lot of time recently to play around in the MMO world but I follow the, err, 2.0 space pretty closely. There were a couple things that caught my eye this week and are both somewhat troubling.

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