Archive for December, 2007

Discuss With Us is a web2.0 app that is currently still in development, based around the Q&A model we’re all familiar with at this point. Unlike the other Q&A applications we’ve seen, Discuss With Us uses a weighted “passion” system to determine which response suits the question the best. As an example of this I found the questions, “What pet is the best?”. There were several answers already available, but I decided to enter a new one, “Snake”.

After I entered this new answer my passion level for the answer automatically was defaulted at “Middle of the road” which gave it a 7% weight, with the top answer, dog, having a 30% weight. I feel Snakes are way cooler than dogs so I decided to change my passion level to “Hell yes”, which brought the weight up to 12%. This is a really well thought out system which is why I like it.

The site design itself is very plain and leaves a lot to the imagination, and a little more color and navigation wouldn’t hurt at all. When you go to the signup page you’ll see a large disclaimer as it appears that this is actually a sponsored case study done by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which makes it less of a web2.0 app and more of a survey.

Overall the concept is nothing new, but they do their best to give it a new spin.

Heya everyone,

I haven’t been able to do a whole lot of posting due to being extremely busy at my job, but guess what!? I’m back! That’s right folks, superjustin.com will be back in the next week or so with some great new reviews, including those of which that have been flooded into my inbox, sorry for the delay in getting to those by the way.

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