MORE ABOUT THE POSSIBLE NEW GIG

In case you are wondering what I am working on with my new possible gig, here is the mission statement from sociative.net:

Like the Web itself, the ‘real time web’ is enabling an explosion of disruptive applications, media, and businesses. This introduces some serious challenges and opportunities: how do we make better decisions when confronted with a deluge of unqualified information? How do we separate the signal from the noise?

Sociative’s solution is social. The attention and actions of 100s of millions of users, and the social graph of how they interrelate, provide a wealth of “social signals” that can be used to make sense out of too much information.

Sociative’s proprietary Smartocracy™ technology platform is a simple but powerful approach to collective decision-making (whitepaper), and enables myriad applications in multiple markets. It captures and contextualizes the social graph as a mediator of information flow, constantly adapting to the actions of its users so as to provide ever more qualified information. Its algorithms are based on deep analysis of the underlying social graph, and are constantly re-evaluating the authority of its participants.

Much has been premised on the ‘wisdom of the crowds’; Sociative delivers much wiser crowds.

The company’s initial product is the ‘metazine’: a multi-platform (web, tablet, smartphone), multi-media aggregator in magazine format, applicable to any subject, automatically curated by “delegation networks” of the most highly regarded experts in that field.