Comments on: Intel and Asus want to build a community designed computer http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/10/intel-and-asus-want-to-build-a-community-designed-computer/ portable pc, mobile computer, pocket pc and handheld computing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:29:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What ever happened to WePC? | UMPCPortal - The Mobile Internet and Computing Reference Site http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/10/intel-and-asus-want-to-build-a-community-designed-computer/#comment-18514 What ever happened to WePC? | UMPCPortal - The Mobile Internet and Computing Reference Site Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:01:12 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/10/intel-and-asus-want-to-build-a-community-designed-computer#comment-18514 [...] in October of last year there was some interesting news about a site (WePC.com), made in conjunction with Intel and Asus, that would allow users to submit [...]

[...] in October of last year there was some interesting news about a site (WePC.com), made in conjunction with Intel and Asus, that would allow users to submit [...]

]]> By: JP http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/10/intel-and-asus-want-to-build-a-community-designed-computer/#comment-12284 JP Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:39:41 +0000 http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/10/intel-and-asus-want-to-build-a-community-designed-computer#comment-12284 The problem is that a lot of people submit ideas that are, more or less, already submitted. But it is hard to avoid it since there is no "search" function... While this is a great idea that enable the final consumers to finally say what they think to the big companies, however the way the website is done it is completely anti-productive. And then, of course, the vote system is quite flawed because people will mainly vote either for the 20 already most voted ideas that are easy to acces or the new ideas that are displayed on the front page, which will be forgotten as soon as they are pushed aways by other newer ideas. All the other ideas are too hard to reach for a real user review. So, is it just some bullshit website just here to make some advertisement and give a good image of Asus and Intel? Or would it be a worldwide free brainstorming and they don't care that ideas are duplicated because they don't want to miss good ones? (if it is so, they will certainly have a hard time sorting them...) However my idea just bumped from 15 votes to 188 votes this night. Is it because of this post on UMPCPortal ? :-P The problem is that a lot of people submit ideas that are, more or less, already submitted. But it is hard to avoid it since there is no “search” function…

While this is a great idea that enable the final consumers to finally say what they think to the big companies, however the way the website is done it is completely anti-productive.

And then, of course, the vote system is quite flawed because people will mainly vote either for the 20 already most voted ideas that are easy to acces or the new ideas that are displayed on the front page, which will be forgotten as soon as they are pushed aways by other newer ideas. All the other ideas are too hard to reach for a real user review.

So, is it just some bullshit website just here to make some advertisement and give a good image of Asus and Intel? Or would it be a worldwide free brainstorming and they don’t care that ideas are duplicated because they don’t want to miss good ones? (if it is so, they will certainly have a hard time sorting them…)

However my idea just bumped from 15 votes to 188 votes this night. Is it because of this post on UMPCPortal ? :-P

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