A new website, BigThink.com, is a place for people to discuss and change ideas in the internet. It has been said that BigThink.com has a unique twofold approach. There is a production of interviews with top thinkers regarding big and major topics as well as their respective fields of expertise. The videos are then made available for public viewing and commentaries.
Moreover, BigThink.com also has a specific format for users which allows them to contribute audio and video files of issues concerning people. These topics enable discussion and exchanging of ideas among its audience. What is envisioned about it is the immediacy of YouTube combined with eBay’s entrepreneurship. This leads to a formula which will become a mainstay in the internet. This is what BigThink.com is implying with its debut.
This website, which is the brain-product of co-founder Peter Hopkins had started operating in November and went live officially in January 7. Within this short period of time, it was able to generate different audiences, participants as well as several contributors. Hopkins made a statement to the E-Commerce Times wherein he stressed out that there are indeed quality sites in the internet that features informative lectures.
However, there is nothing that competes with the thinkers. This is the inspiration behind BigThink.com. It offers a venue wherein people can exchange thoughts and ideals online. According to Hopkins, their objective is to assist thinking and allowing it to reach higher plains. BigThink.com is defined as a YouTube of ideas and information.
Hopkins and co-founder, Victoria Brown, want to go above and beyond corporate and academic conferences which gather up leading thinkers. One of their visions for this website is to bring together groups of elite thinkers and their ideas in one venue similar with the others. This will enable responses and participation from audiences coming from different directions.
There is not cost for all the users of BigThink.com and all of its contents are free. Interviews and users’ contributions are divided into two categories which are called Meta and Physical. Using these two major categories, topics are then filtered and the users can search for various topics by making use of one of the multiple search engines which had been built in the website. Topics under the Meta category include discussions with regards to Beliefs, Inspiration, Life and Death, Personal History, Happiness, Truth, Love and Outlook among others. Arts and Culture, Architecture and Design, Music, Dance, Art, Literature and many others are groups that fall under the Physical category.
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Comments
khairilhusni said on February 22nd at 11:50 pm,
I think there is a big opportunity to create communities that have a “center of gravity” different than YouTube’s. For instance, compare the average stream of comments on Flickr to that of YouTube and you’ll see that the communities are pretty different there. It’s possible that BigThink could be a place where conversation takes place that is of a different caliber than that of other online video sites. If that happens, this has a chance to be successful.
Ajay Gupta said on February 25th at 08:04 am,
Video based sites is the order of the day it seems these days. After the grand success of youtube and google acquiring it, i feel that many have jumped in this category and in me-too attitude have started similar ventures. I feel this bigthink.com will not fall into that category and create a niche of its own.