Speaker: Harry Pierson, Architect, Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team

Topic: Patterns of Participation, Understanding the Role of Users in Architecture

Among the principles of Web 2.0 outlined by Tim O’Reilly is “Harness Collective Intelligence”. Like most of his description of Web 2.0, Tim illustrates this principle with examples such as Wikipedia, Google PageRank and del.icio.us. These examples, though illustrative of the principle, don’t provide much in the way of guidance for people that are looking to harness the wisdom of crowds. In this talk, Harry will describe a series of patterns for harnessing collective intelligence. These patterns are based on how some of the popular Web 2.0 sites are leveraging collective intelligence in order to provide their services.