Order Out of Chaos
The Internet is a mess. There's value in its content, but in order to get at it, you need to wade through a ton of junk first.
Successful web companies help users make order out of chaos. Google did it by making sites with more inbound links rank higher in search results. If you link to a site on your web page, it's as if you're casting a vote for that site to rank higher. (It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the idea.)
Same with social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Digg. People bookmark their favorite sites, tag them with words, and then others can find them when they search for those words.
Technorati is a site that indexes and organizes the content of blogs on the Internet. It helps people searching for content in blogs find the more popular posts.
Want to start a successful web company? Help Internet users make order out of chaos. Organize. Create a way for valuable content to bubble to the surface so users can easily find it. How would you do that?
Furthermore, most of the existing examples are based on a system of votes or popularity. Could you create a system that wasn't based on that means of ordering?
Successful web companies help users make order out of chaos. Google did it by making sites with more inbound links rank higher in search results. If you link to a site on your web page, it's as if you're casting a vote for that site to rank higher. (It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the idea.)
Same with social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Digg. People bookmark their favorite sites, tag them with words, and then others can find them when they search for those words.
Technorati is a site that indexes and organizes the content of blogs on the Internet. It helps people searching for content in blogs find the more popular posts.
Want to start a successful web company? Help Internet users make order out of chaos. Organize. Create a way for valuable content to bubble to the surface so users can easily find it. How would you do that?
Furthermore, most of the existing examples are based on a system of votes or popularity. Could you create a system that wasn't based on that means of ordering?