External expert meeting feedback

today we had a meeting with an external expert , Ms.Lisa Lindstrom which is very talented. the meeting was very useful and fruitful, especially regarding technical issues and how our ideas will be implemented practically. our project as you know includes five products , and she really liked three of them with no comments, while the other two were a little controversial.

the ideas that passed without comments are : Blog Alarm , BullShit detector, Truth Plate

Who else :

some questions were raised like what is the difference between that and Google for example. the answer was simple , that it is somehow limited to opinion searching , and it enables communicating with people and sending them messages , as a tool to be able to find out about credibility of the things we read.
that was when she asked how that can be implemented technically. there was some sort of confusion about that question , we couldn't really answer that. maybe because we didn't dig deeper into it while discussing it to begin with.
then after that we had a team meeting to discuss those notes , and there's a serious suggestion now to merge this application with "truth plate" . but we need to discuss that further.

See my Footprints

the external expert was kind of shocked of the purpose of this application. she was wondering why would anybody be interested in making his browsing history open for everybody. and she suggested that here will be privacy settings that enable you to control who sees what. means that you can hide some websites you visit. we thought this is interesting but then the whole purpose of the application will disappear.
This application is designed specifically for bloggers and similar ones who have their own online outlet that is targeted to people . and it is designed for them as a message they send to their followers that they don't have anything to hide , and they are open, to increase transparency and credibility. It was just our try to find creative tools to enable people to be qualified judges on what they read in online media and be able to differentiate between true and false.

in our meeting afterwards , we thought of making those privacy settings optional , like for some people this will be like a social tool to share links and open discussions about them through messages between members or even in a forum on the web page. and for other users it will be as a tool to increase credibility among their followers and readers.

we thought we were done with the project , but it seems that we need to work more and more on it. It is not bad , I mean so far we still have three products out of five , and the other two can be discussed.