Hyperlocal Social Intelligence
June 4, 2008
Fred Wilson has some interesting thoughts on how interesting hyperlocal properties need to be ‘peer produced’. His point is that together we, “will document what is going on in our streets, our schools, our churches, our parks, and our communities. No “newsroom centric” model is going to work. That’s how I see it.”
I like the hyperlocal space and I think there is a lot of room for vertical content sliced and diced based on geography and then remixed for a national audience. Additionally, I believe that loosely joined peer groups working together can produce some of the most comprehensive data and in turn foster the creation of communities. Communities need data to report and the ‘reporting’ of the data is what, ironically, can create or strengthen a community that didn’t know it even existed.
Social data, whether it is generated via blogs, flickr, twitter, facebook, myspace will ultimately be organized. I think community based organization based on geography will be an important way to view this ’social intelligence’. I have written about social intelligence on a few occasions including my call for a social dashboard a few weeks ago.
