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Greetings! 

Your feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated for this site designed to harness the collective intelligence and action of people on the Internet - www.inchorus.com

Also if you own a site, how appealing is an alternative revenue source to ads to you?

Thanks,

Kai

Kai,

What a neat concept! I Love your site. A great idea. I registered and i loved the comedic drop down on gender, very cute! I am going to check it out more now. How did you decide to build this and why? Great JOB! I love the Home page look.

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This is fascinating! Reminds me of the SuN forums... :-D
Only two things come to mind. The first is that on the main page, over at the right, top margin, where you have "More than just Q&A," then "community knowledge: blended....etc..." I`d like to see a separate "Learn More" button, big, orange, and easily clickable.

I saw the "Lear more" tab at the top, but I had to look for it.

Secondly, on the "learn more" page, the organization of the text was a bit visually difficult to follow. I don`t understand the vertical bars. I thought they were bullets, and they`re not. It could be laid out just a tad more pleasing to the eye.

Other than that, I was drawn in. I started looking at projects, viewing the results, and was tempted to join and contribute. Since that`s your goal, you`ve succeeded admirably! :-D Totally cool site, and I`ll be curious to see how it develops.

I`ll echo stonesledge in asking how you came up with this idea, and what you envision?

His site kept me answering the neat questions that kept popping up. It was fun and took me away from thinking about work, work, work for a while. Are you hoping to get more projects for folks to collaborate on together such as someone wanting help in creating a business, brand identity, building a site, etc?? Is is aimed at a serious crowd or for fun? I was viewing the "Tiger Team" postings which seemed to be a hot topic between a group of SUN members, I wonder if this could be used by them? Seems like it may be useful for what they are planning to accomplish.

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Kai...

I am an artist and have some comments about the visual impact of the
site. First, it is very light and doesn`t have much contrast. Grey and
orange is a descent color scheme but there are no dark colors.
Everything looks soft. If you look at the entire page as a whole (stand
back from your screen), the parts that stand out the most are the orange
bars, then the line of icons at the very bottom or that blue musical note. I
have a hunch you would prefer other aspects have the impact. Punch up
some of the text with darker colors! Rearrange colors. That menu bar
across the top actually hides the links (learn more, etc.) because the
oranges are so similar.

Also, your logo doesn`t work well against a white background. It looks
decent against the orange bar because the white rings are legible.
Against white, the white rings confuse the grey rings and without getting
into technical perspective, it just looks off. Perhaps if you were to use the
logo on a white background, you could turn the white rings into orange
ones. And speaking of the logo, lose the big one behind the whole page.
It creates visual clutter and makes the text hard to read.

I would also lose the vertical dashed lines, however I like the orange
dotted ones. Simply replace the dashes with little orange dots! I agree
with the other comment about how they confuse the reader on the learn
more page.

And quite frankly, those people images are a pretty amateurish. Perhaps
you can find some clip art or a better artist. These things do make an
impression on the professionalism of a site. People "see" a website
before they really even read it or use it. I hope my tips were helpful to
giving it a little more punch, a little more impact.

Conceptually, I love the idea of the site! I think you`re onto something
and I hope it`s going well so far. Keep us updated!

-Steve

I disagree, I enjoy the "softness" of the site. It is not harsh and I think the people art is simple and fun. I am having problems with my viewing, i think due to updating to IE7 but all in all I personally like it. It is soft but still to the point.

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Thanks everyone for the great feedback. 

The idea came out of a research project at University of California at Berkeley. Our vision is this:  In the past when you have a problem, you either work on it alone or with a few other people to solve it.  What we want to do is give you access to thousands of people to work on your problem.  Imagine the power of this for a small business owner:  Vote on your product name ideas, suggest price points for your service, tag your products with search keywords…

If you own a website and put the free inChorus banners on your site, you would get the following benefits by simply cutting and pasting a few lines of HTML code on your site:

1. Your users can interact with each other and enrich each other’s experience on your site.  For example, they could ask people to suggest solutions to their problem.   Or hundreds of people could write a story together sentence by sentence. 

2. You, the owner of the website could ask your users to tell you how to make your website better, vote on new feature development priorities, or help tag products or content on your site.

3. You can make additional money when outside businesses pay for projects to be served through the inChorus banners on your site.  For example, if you have a car hobbyist site, inChorus will share revenues with you in exchange for showing product survey questions from car companies on your site.

Are these benefits compelling to you?  I’d love to hear your feedback.

Cheers,

Kai
www.inchorus.com

I also love the name by the way.Great Job!

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Our Goal Is Your Success!
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