MicroSourcing the Social Web

Or maybe it’s called micro-hiring. With aggregation of lifestreams being the focus of late, are there opportunities for small or young groups tapping into “Expert Lifestreams”? The idea is getting little bits of experts’ opinions and knowledge available to the less knowledgeable.

• Breaking groupthink by injecting dynamic knowledge-sharing into homogenous groups

• Personal assistants to organize and sort through Lifestreams to accomplish specific tasks like discovering new topics/tools/sources, etc. and then prompting (or nudging) to take action.

• Successfully applying the Long-tail to people

• Will monetary incentives encourage extended levels of participation on the experts’ parts… “A penny for your thoughts,” literally. If a (low-cost) thought or stream of thoughts and activity is paid for by a lot of people to a lot of people a revenue-sharing framework could develop.

• How does FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, SocialThing, Ping.fm, and the likes play into this?

• Problems: As lives and interests change, how does the Social Web remain Semantic?

This was originally a biz idea i had, but maybe exploring it will make for interesting reading? I dunno. thoughts?

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