week 9

This week we were talking about Web 2.0.

In tutorial we were given a group task to identify the collective intelligence between blogger.com and wordpress.org.

By using google trends we found that using the search engine in google, wordpress is more popular than blogger. The reason was that wordpress is used by many companies so it is more corporate. Therefore, when you type in the company name into google search engine it will automatically comes as with wordpress URL.

Whereas under websites visited by the population, google trend showed that blogger is the most visited website than wordpress. The reason why is because blogger is more personal and easier to use than wordpress. The statistic shows that in 2002 there were 41,000 people registered with blogger.

The difference collective intelligence between blogger and wordpress is that blogger's blog roll is used to share information to other people and recommends other websites. Whereas wordpress blog roll is used to advertised the company's products so instead of driving the viewer's attention to other websites it actually keeps the viewers attention to the products the company sells.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2C+blogger
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wordpress.org%2C+blogger.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0