CRITICUBE, COMBINED BETWEEN TWITTER AND WIKIPEDIA

What would a person do when they want to find information or share ideas? Today, a good place to meet that is the internet. This global network is provide various facilities that can facilitate that purpose.Two of them frequented sites are Wikipedia and Twitter, where many people can contribute to the spread of knowledge and ideas about things all over the world. The need to develop knowledge and share ideas captured by Rama Manusama, a former student of Indonesia majoring in Business S2 who now lives in the Netherlands. Together with some friends, he developed Criticube, similar site forum where users can express their thoughts and submit a response.

"The concept is similar to Twitter, we made a post about some thoughts or ideas about something that can be read by many people at once," said Rama to KompasTekno via conference call. The difference with Twitter, thinking of the users is more organized with the division into subject categories, or are referred to as "cube". Users can then keep track of the topic in a way to follow the corresponding cube. Others can chimed a 'thought' to write a reply or reply.

Well, this reply may be delivered in three different attitudes: positive or supportive, neutral, and challenge or oppose. Choice of attitude can be selected from a checklist available in the reply box, meaning that the owner thought understood perfectly that his opinion about the situation-for example, political or scientific-is being supported or opposed. In this way, Rama hopes to foster discussion of climate in Criticube. "You see, each person would have a different opinion, but instead of that difference can be grown new knowledge," said Rama.
A post thoughts in a cube can be follow, so people who are interested can always keep track of the discussion.

 

Knowledge Sharing

Type "cube" on the site Criticube quite diverse. There is about an 50-cube with topics ranging from about hobbies like video games and comic to the more serious, such as social entrepreneurship and even discussions about human origins. In addition to writing the opinion for an existing cube, each user can create a new cube with the appropriate topic of interest.

"For some cubes that are scientific knowledge, an idea must include a reference source. This is so that readers know that the information submitted was really factual and obtained from a credible source," said Rama. The purpose of this, according to Rama, is that Criticube can be used as a reference source of information for those in need.

"For example, any student who is writing a thesis about social media research, he was able to follow a topic related to the cube, or create a new cube and gather information from there. Those people who have the same interest can also be gathered here," he said, adding inclusion of unnecessary references to the topic cube casual or non-scientific. To improve the quality of the site, Rama conducted a number of surveys. "We asked, how long wear criticube, whether criticube could help in work and study, and his feedback is used as a reference for developing Criticube aspects of knowledge sharing."

Since it was first run in February, Criticube have collected about 500 users, mostly from the Netherlands and Indonesia. As many as 40 percent of that work as professional workers and students.

For now, posting in Criticube be written using the English language to be understood by an international audience of the target site, "but there will also be cube in the Indonesian language to accommodate more users in the country," said Rama.

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