The result is one of the first human-powered best of the web discovery engines CrowdFound.
We first started looking at ideas in 2004 and identified a number of opportunities.But the thing that really inspired us to turn our talk into action, was the successof others with similar ideas, like YouTube, Joe Olejnik says.
The result is a website which harnesses the power of the crowd to let users bringtogether the best of the web on almost any topic on just one site.
CrowdFound is a people-powered content discovery engine combined with socialnetworking and social book-marking applications, Gareth Saunders says.
At the same time, CrowdFound also provides users the ability to communicate andnetwork globally with people who are interested in the same topics.
Joe Olejnik says: We identified the lack of ability to find high quality content onspecific subjects all in one place as one of the biggest problems on the internet.
Sure there are search engines and directory listings, but it s not all in one spotand quite often search results provide too many non-relevant and / or outdatedresults which are poorly organised due to all the clutter that is out there.
Also we recognised that many of the large social networking sites where people cometogether to chat are very general in nature as opposed to being centered aroundspecific topics people are really passionate about.
In contrast, on CrowdFound topics are clustered under logical categories andsubcategories it s the users who then decide what content is submitted.
This content is then rated and ordered through collaborative agreement to decidewhat stays and what go s based on good old democratic decision making the usersvote. The more votes the particular item receives the higher it goes and visa versa.
The beauty of this is that the content stays fresh in today s fast moving world,what might be hot today is old news tomorrow, Joe Olejnik says.
There are other useful functions and features. For instance, CrowdFound users cancreate their own personalised lists where they can store their favorites. GarethSaunders says we built this function because what the crowd likes may not be whatindividual members of the crowd like.
Steve Olejnik says: We are just starting to develop the ability for socialnetworking between individuals from all around the world to come together on topicsof interest this is amazing as it then allows for views and knowledge to be sharedamongst interested users globally in real time.
The CrowdFound team is now working around the clock on improving the concept withwhat they say are a few innovative twists , at the same time they are alsopreparing to seek investor funding.
Our next key milestone is to start approaching investors to secure seed roundfunding so that we can turn our vision for CrowdFound into a reality GarethSaunders says.
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