There has been lots of attention around this end of the blogosphere lately about a site launched by Intel and Asus. The site is called WePC, and it hopes to collectively gather the best ideas for a laptop. Users can submit just an idea, or a complete idea of their dream computer. Submissions can be voted on by the community, and the site says that Asus will build the best computer (based on community votes), and Intel will power it.
The idea seems pretty cool and I’m very excited to see what ends up happening with this project. I’m impressed by the site itself and the time that Asus and Intel put into it. The submission form includes a few fields to enter a name and description for your idea or computer, and even a widget to let you draw your computer.
Have an idea? I encourage you all to submit it to the site; this is a great opportunity to give one of the biggest netbook manufacturers some feedback and suggestions, even if you idea doesn’t come to fruition. Be sure to check out some of the ideas that have already been submitted.
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