collective intelligence and the cute shiny slidey stuff

Ok cool that last lecture was quite interesting, as it talked about the new generation web verses the old generation web. The greatest point of interest is collective intelligence, or the many to many model. This is opposed to the old one to many model. Are you confused? OK I'll break it down for you. In the early years of the internet, that basic idea of sites, was to provided content for the general public. The site used the one to many model, by have only a few content publishers and content controllers to provided the info that goes onto the site. But nowadays, site creators can utilize collective intelligence for the content of their site. This means the amount of data that can be provided as site content goes up astronomically (this actually depends on the amount of visitor who use the site) and all they need to do it provide a user friendly framework (or the cute shiny slidey stuff). Great examples of collective intelligence include Wikipedia, Ebay, Youtube and Facebook. So in conclusion collective intelligence, or the many to many content model, is one of the great breakthroughs of the world wide web and it has made the internet a crucial part of peoples lives. ols out