Future User-Driven Apps
The “voted on by users so it must be good” idea is due to be tested to destruction.
Not only the semi-publicized plan of Wales/Wikipedia to produce a community-fuelled search engine, hinted at here and here - but also with SquidOffers:-
The idea is to combine the voting mechanism of Reddit or Digg or Plexo with the text ad mindset of a Google ad. But instead of an ad, it’s an offer.
Leaving aside the semantics of ad vs. offer - and with the usual caveat of unless I’m missing something - the question remains: why would people vote to receive more ads?
Folksonomies are born, not built by artifice - I don’t know whether that’s a law or not…
