Collective Intelligence in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Understanding collective intelligence

Figure 1.1. A user may be influenced by other users either directly or through intelligence derived from the application by mining the data.

Figure 1.2. Three components to harnessing collective intelligence. 1: Allow users to interact. 2: Learn about your users in aggregate. 3: Personalize content using user interaction data and aggregate data.

Figure 1.3. Four pillars for user-centric applications

Figure 1.4. An example of a user-centric application—LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com)

Figure 1.5. Classifying user-generated information

Figure 1.6. This tag cloud from del.icio.us shows popular tags at the site.

Figure 1.7. Screen shot from Digg.com showing news items with the number of ...