Kluster, the crowd sourcing startup that launched earlier this year, has introduced support for new private Klusters designed to help groups manage decision making.
Each Kluster offers users a chance to ask a group a question (say, “What features should go into the new TechCrunch tablet?”). Each participating member is then categorized from the administrator panel – in this case, we might categorize voters as “Designers”, “Engineers”, and “General Consumers”. Once the data has been compiled, survey administrators can use the sites “klusterEQ” to manage how much weight should be given to the responses from each participant (we might want to rate a Designer’s style rating higher than a Engineer’s).
Kluster seems to be taking a multi-pronged approach to the crowdsourcing space, which includes a number of competitors like Ideablob and Innocentive. Last month the site launched NameThis, a site that lets companies ask the crowd what they should call their new product.
Private Kluster Tour! from Ben Kaufman on Vimeo.
Sounds like a cool tool for distributed teams.
thats nice. Kind of like techcruch i guess,… isnt it? i mean it has its similarities.. when new stuff comes out techcrunch always critiques and gives lots of pos or neg feedback…
looks neat.
What’s with the volume of the mid-90s new york hip-hop soundtrack competing with the presenter for attention?!
I agree, the music drove me mad after about two minutes.
Shareyourbrain.com does this already – and for much less money – free.
Shareyourbrain.com only allows users to vote something up or down. The sliders with kluster and the influence levels a.) look geared more towards private organizations and b.) allow you to create a whole set of different perspectives from which to view the ranking of ideas.
QUIte different really Eric. Looks much cooler
Marcus – as to being geared towards private organizations, shareyourbrain.com has Group support – giving various levels of private group project and group idea functionality. This is ideally suited for small teams and organizations wishing to keep things internal. I’d say the missing piece is that Kluster allows custom color palette selection for their private projects upon setup whereas shareyourbrain.com skins the entire page with custom logos and banners on an individual case-by-case basis.
Eric – I think the missing piece is sorting ideas by different perspectives, taking into account different criteria as well as the users ranking them. In a world where cost is king, one idea may win, while in another world, where ease of use if king, another idea will rule.
Kluster lets you see these different worlds and decide accordingly.
Cheers mate!
I agree with you Markus – that is a neat feature.
Yes, I agree the weight sliders are pretty but I argue the real everyday use of them by the targeted businesses. We’ll see I suppose.
brainstorm.com from vienna, AT also has the same service. free
Brainstorm.com doesn’t appear to exist.