July 2008
25 posts
“The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.”
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“kluster gets a nomination in the category of Rohan’s Favorite Webapp...”
– rohan_london
“Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don’t go to a...”
– Banksy
Dozens blinded in India looking for Virgin Mary →
At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports.
Alarmed health authorities in India’s Kottayam district have set up a sign dispelling rumours of a miraculous image in the sky and warning of the dangers of looking into direct sunlight.
Forty-eight cases of sight-loss, allegedly caused by photochemical...
Naming à la sauce 2.0 →
J’aime assez bien les gens de chez Kluster. Ce post, non pas pour vous parler de leur dernière sortie (Kluster) mais bien de leur projet NameThis. NameThis est une application crowdsourcing conçue pour fournir rapidement et facilement une aide dans la recherche d’un nom pour une compagnie, un produit ou un service. Bref, du Naming à la sauce Web 2.0… ;-)
Private Klusters help groups make decisions →
Private Klusters are designed to enable collaborative brainstorming on myriad different questions by allowing invited participants to share their opinions on a relevant, customized set of criteria. One private Kluster might be focused on finding a new logo, for example. In such a case, participants might rate submitted ideas based on criteria including “uniqueness,”...
“The music turns me batty after awhile but another solid concept, good for...”
– Dan Rockwell
“Wow, Kluster is almost exactly like the startup I used to work for out of the u...”
– devlind
“Just been told about kluster.com Seems to be a great tool for brainstorming and...”
– Shiv Singh
Kluster Launches Private Survey Manager →
Kluster, the crowd sourcing startup that launched earlier this year, has introduced support for new private Klusters designed to help groups manage decision making.
Each Kluster offers users a chance to ask a group a question (say, “What features should go into the new TechCrunch tablet?”). Each participating member is then categorized from the administrator panel - in this case, we might...
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“Did you comb your hair with toast this morning?”
“The opportunity is often lost by deliberating …”
“He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that...”
Google Launches Lively to Create a Virtual World... →
Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to create a massive distributed virtual world, where every Google account can have its own avatar that can be used wherever a Lively virtual room is present – for example, on a blog, a...
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Chruch and State →
Senator Barack Obama said Tuesday that if elected president he would expand the delivery of social services through churches and other religious organizations, vowing to achieve a goal he said President Bush had fallen short on during his two terms.
An Obama-Nation →
Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants …
There's A Law That Takes Away Money If You Leave... →
Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capital — or at least a good portion of it — at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. Is it, perhaps, in preparation for the possibility that Americans might rebel at the debt and taxes incurred by their government by leaving for lower-tax locales? You probably didn’t notice this little provision...
NameThis Test Drive →
What I love about Kluster so far is that they listened to their community unlike some other crowdsourcing communities. They relies that their community is driving their business and that if they are going to invest in the wisdom of the crowds then they should listen to their crowd. In a series of blog post Kluster has asked its community what it should do to make its product better, and in a...