{"id":777,"date":"2009-06-10T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindaverse.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2009-07-08T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T18:18:59","slug":"new-site-hunch-helps-with-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"New site Hunch helps with decision making"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been experimenting with a new site for the last month or two. Hunch<\/a> is a new endeavor by some really smart folks<\/a> (Flickr co-founder, SiteAdvisor folks, Ivy League individuals, etc.). The basic premise:<\/p>\n

In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of topics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although Hunch is in a private beta for one more week, it has amassed over 2,100 topics on everything from Electronics<\/a> to Sports and Fitness <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hunch is the lazyweb<\/h2>\n

Frankly, Hunch is a great idea and I have no doubt will become another staple of the internet. What Wikipedia is to knowledge sourcing, Hunch is to decision making.<\/strong> With the ability for anyone to make edits, suggests decisions, vote up, vote down, and leave comments in the form of pros and cons of a decision, Hunch will become the<\/em> platform for decision information.<\/p>\n

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With thousands of topics, one can make a decision about nearly anything.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

If you think about it, people are making decisions every day. Very often we involve our friends. Too often I see friends on Facebook or Twitter ask questions like: should I buy the new iPhone 3GS or the Palm Pre? What should I do over the weekend? What graphic design book should I read? Or they’re answering the questions like “What cocktail am I?” [note: who cares?] My selfish dream is that this chatter disappears and relocates to Hunch; a site dedicated and perfectly designed to handle these questions (much better designed than 140 characters on Twitter).<\/p>\n

Badges are always a win<\/h2>\n

If you want to build a web application that encourages people to immediately sign up and be active: add badges. I’ve used Hunch maybe a dozen times and I already have 8 super sweet badges. No doubt I’ll be back to get more. But seriously, credibility is important on the web. Banjos are to Hunch what edits<\/a> are to Wikipedia and reputation are to Stack Overflow<\/a>. It encourages more participation, though, arguably may incentivize people to add junk. That’s fine though, in theory, as the community will sort out the user generated signal from the noise.<\/p>\n

The hidden value: Teach Hunch<\/h2>\n

Hunch asks a lot of questions about you. It gains a lot of information not only from your decisions, edits, recommendations, etc. It also asks you, point blank, “Do you enjoy shopping for clothes?” or “Do you have a car?”<\/p>\n

\"My

My previous answer was the same as 48% of respondents. I'm in the minority?<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

From the plethora of information that thousands of users are providing you can quickly get some very cool (anonymized) correlations.<\/p>\n

\"Liberals<\/a>

Liberals are about twice as likely to prefer arugula to iceberg in their salads, but the exact opposite goes for conservatives.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Of course, the concern being how much Hunch can learn from us, where that information will go, how it will be used for\/against us, etc. Some will argue its harmless in the beginning, others say that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been experimenting with a new site for the last month or two. Hunch is a new endeavor by some really smart folks (Flickr co-founder, SiteAdvisor folks, Ivy League individuals, etc.). The basic premise: In 10 questions or less, Hunch will offer you a great solution to your problem, concern or dilemma, on hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}