Networked Media Production Week 10

This week in our tutorial we had to come up with an idea of an online service that makes use of collective intelligence.

Our idea is based off the same sort of concept that amazon offers. Keeping in mind this idea is pretty futuristic.

Idea – Online, multiplicity, collective intelligence.

Extensive online 20 page personality report, based on the report it creates an application for smart phones, apple product etc that categorises all your interests, sort of like a personal tag cloud. It connects with all major stores, grocery, clothing even car dealerships (assuming that these major companies have geo-tagged products – so the application can direct to you to certain items in the store based on your personal preference). It also takes your bank balance, and weekly income into consideration. It’s function is, when entering the store, e.g. Clothing store, you can go to a rack of t-shirts, tag the shirt and it comes up with other suggestions of other clothing in the store, sort of like when you get a book from amazon, it comes up with suggestions based on your previous purchases. Based on your income, it will also suggest items that you will like as well as within your price range.

The application is free thanks to multiple sponsors who pay money to advertise their business e.g. if you usually get hungry at a certain time, it comes up with suggestions based on your regular food choices e.g. 1pm - 2 dollar slushies at Maccy D’s.