Zune Social Program Manager Jessica is working on new social feature to add to Zune Social. This
new feature was decided to be a music trivia game where users try to guess what music people were talking about based on words, phrases, etc. provided by other people of the community.
Alarms in my head went off about a Human Computation Tech-Talk (see below) I watched last week by a recent Ph.D graduate from Carnegie Mellon.
I immediately signed up on Zune.net to add my input on this subject to the forum since the design of this feature is heavily operated based on community contribution. Here's what I posted...
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You rock Jessica!
But Please, please, please if you want to design a better game that's fun and addicting which in turn improves music search quality using human brainpower for free (which is what this is really about)then watch the following video in
its entirety...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFroEJN1nI
Designing atop Luis' principles of Asymmetric/Symmtretric games is the way to go in my opinion.
My $0.02,
~= Chris =~
P.S. I can't wait til I make my next visit to the U.S. so that I can buy a Zune 80 (red). I'm an American living in Brazil (oh the horror of electronics down here).
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And here's the video:
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