Intel is always monitoring a variety of trends, transitions and inflection points so why not take advantage of concepts related to social filtering (ala Digg), crowdsourcing and predictive markets.
Tomorrow, Intel is launching a Web site that lets people rank the most compelling software business ideas.
Called CoolSW (it stands for “cool software”), the site looks much like Digg, the popular site that lets users rank technology-oriented news by voting on whether they like it or not.
CoolSW is different because it focuses solely on business ideas. It’s designed to draw on the opinions of the wider developer and entrepreneur community, to help Intel keep track of “the next Google,” as Steve Santamaria, the Intel employee overseeing the project, puts it. It allows voting and comments, like Digg.
For now, it is focused on software ideas, but could be expanded to include other ideas, too.
The name of the site says it all, COOL SOFTWARE. This idea is indeed cool. Businessmen will know if their business concepts, like mortgage refinance, are popular or are going down the drain.
Posted by: Yen Rubie | October 11, 2007 at 02:29 AM