They are building the Wikipedia for alerts - a community-driven alert platform on all topics. We constantly miss out on stuff - be it a special deal, a video game release, a health hazard, a new restaurant opening or whatever. Sometimes we're lucky and hear about it eventually; but it would have been much better if we knew about it sooner. Why, in the age of the internet and abundant information, does that still happen? They believe it's due to a lack of reliable and specific alert services which only send the information which is required (and not all the other garbage, as most social networks do). Wikilerts is an innovative approach to fix this by: a) Harnessing the power of communities to acquire information; b) Applying sophisticated reporting and verification processes to ensure that the information is correct and c) Channeling the information so that it only gets delivered to those users who are interested in it. This will be added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:59 AM
