For a site like Internet Evolution which is dedicated in investigating the future of the Internet and backed by prominent Internet experts like, it is but fitting to create something unique from time to time.
This time it’s about “The Wisdom of Clouds,” the graphical user interface (GUI) allows site visitors to take a virtual flight through a cloud bank of all ideas generated by more than 80 world-famous contributors to the ThinkerNet blogosphere, and drill down to read the ones that are of interest.
Some of the Contributors to the ThinkerNet include John Hinshaw, Boeing’s CIO; Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.com; Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, the company that develops and maintains Second Life; and John Grimes, CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Since this busy site publishes about 3 new blogs every single day, the team behind Internet Evolution realized there is a need for a new and more efficient way to organize these ideas.
If you’re wondering why they call the new interface as such, well here is the answer of Stephen Saunders, Internet Evolution’s Founding Editor :
We’re calling our new interface ‘The Wisdom of Clouds’ as an ironic homage to James Surowiecki’s ‘The Wisdom of Crowds,’ which we happen to think is complete nonsense. And we’re referring to it as a ‘Web 3.0’ interface because we know it will really annoy all the alleged experts who talk pretentious twaddle about the Internet and its various iterations.
Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 6:29 am