Bank & Finance Watch - What Indexes would you like to see on B&F Watch? - Comments

stockpickr.com has some

jzanti — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:38:33 +0000

stockpickr.com has some ideas on indexes (left column). Also, I like socialpicks.com user's ranking system.

Some indexes i recommend: a political index which tracks political events/forming laws and a University index which tracks R&D projects, issued patents, and the underwriting companies at the academic level.

User defined indexes

fredericbaud — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:57:17 +0000

I would think of the ability for a user to define the template of a form consisting of a set of closed questions; defining if people can answer yes or no (yes or no, maybe); or a range of value (e.g. between 0 and 10); then the creator could define weights for each questions and his/her newly created index would be the result of the weighted average.

Then for each entry, readers could decide to fill an index for this resource (through a choice in the list of possible index). We would then have the possibility of seeing the overall custom index for this resource (average of the index note between all the results of readers who entered an evaluation); and possibly see the detail index entered by each reader for this resource.

This functional requirement is possibly asking a lot for. If we could have something simple (like just defining one question for an index and deciding on a value range for entering it).

Frederic Baud

BarCampBank - P2PVenture
My blog

Flat page

fredericbaud — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:45:52 +0000

Right, I think it would be great to have a flat page with groups and subgroups as headers and sub-headers.

Another page with alphabetical index would I think be useful as well.

Frederic Baud

BarCampBank - P2PVenture
My blog

User defined indexes: great idea

Sam Rose — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:50:46 +0000

Perhaps if we can come up wih some way for people to build these indexes?

What would a typical index/rating sytem consist of? If we can standardize this in some way, we probably can allow for the creation of it.

Sam Rose
Social Synergy Web
Weblog

Wiki, Flat Presentation

Sam Rose — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:48:24 +0000

I think the wiki could be a bit much, too. Might be something I'd use, but many would not use such a wide array of tools, likely.

it could be neat/useful to have a custom page that creates just the flat list, based on category, perhaps?

Sam Rose
Social Synergy Web
Weblog

User defined indexes

fredericbaud — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:46:39 +0000

What would be cool is if we can find a way to let anyone create its own type of index and start populating it for a series of entries. We could then see if it garners momentum by people voting on relevance of indexes and possibly have more and more people starting using them for characterizing entries

Structured/semi-structured

fredericbaud — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:33:56 +0000

I'm wondering what would be the effect of automatically creating pages on the >wiki. While wikis offer the ability to organize semi-structure and thus the liberty attached to this, I'm a bit worried that having information in two places (Drupal and the Wiki) could start creating discrepancies and maintenance problems.

But I think we miss a flat presentation of the list of all the resources. It could be a page automatically produced (not designed to be modified by humans) that'd show a projection of the repository. First idea would have a flat structured list very similar to what we currently maintain on FractalWiki. Another possbility could also be to create an Index (in the sense alphabetical Book Index) of all the entries here to give a full view of the content.

Important

Sam Rose — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:45:53 +0000

This are very important factors for sure.

It's interesting to think about how people might collectively create these indexes in useful ways.

Also, I though it could be useful to have script that populates the http://wiki.barcampbank.org site with a page for each entry, and generates a link in the entry to the wiki page. This could let people create a deeper repository of knowledge around each entry. Will look into this more if we are interested...

Sam Rose
Social Synergy Web
Weblog

Couple of indexes

fredericbaud — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:59:35 +0000

Here is a quick list from the top of my head

* disruption index:
Potential for being a disruptive innovative business. See Clayton Christensen for more info

* growth potential index:
What is the likely size of the market this business is covering

* strategic positioning index:
How much strategic resources has the business accumulated? Is it positioned in a competitive market?

What Indexes would you like to see on B&F Watch?

Sam Rose — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:15:47 +0000

Previously, we had talked about creating "indexes" where people can rate different values and factors. So, I'm starting this item to pose the question: What indexes would you like to see?

Some ideas include

"Pinko" index, are way to rate businesses based upon how they engage their communities of customers, developers, employees, investors, and the world in general from a marketing perspective. There would probably be several different factors that would be combined to create a pinko "rating". What should those factors be?