Collaboration and Collective Intelligence

This was a very intresting video on Collaboration bringing in some very intresting metaphores. First off Malone describes collective intelligence as a group of people acting together to produce intelligence that could not be produced individually. To do that they explained a few examples of how to bring this for example with kids using pokemon. Now a days we are staying connected and collarborated through facebook and other social sites. Facebook is now estimated at over 80 million users as Trebor speaks about which brings it to a very strong collaboration and collective intelligence. Cory discusses how the starwood group used second life to help make desicions on the design and building of there new hotel. Using this online community and virtual world they were able to make important changes and collaborate with thousands of people. It really got them involved it what needed to happen and what changes they needed to make in order to make the new hotel sucessful.