If Grupthink were a cocktail beverage

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 by Steven S. -- Product Design

Describing Grupthink is a little hard, because we haven’t seen anything else quite like it, and we don’t really want to be compared to sites that are fundamentally different. Grupthink is not “Yahoo! Answers” or an online polling site. This description made a lot of sense to some in-the-know people on our notification list:

If Grupthink were a cocktail beverage, this might be the recipe:

  • 1/2 oz. Wiki
  • 1/2 oz. Online polling
  • 1/4 oz. Photo sharing
  • 1/4 oz. Web 2.0 Buzzword Mix (ajax, social media, etc…)
  • One (1) offensively large stalk of celery

Ok, now I’m thirsty…

2 Responses to “If Grupthink were a cocktail beverage”

  1. Somewhat Frank Says:

    Grupthink For Your Q

    Grupthink, a company based in the heavenly Rocky Mountains between Glacier and Yellowstone Park, recently launched to help you post your questions online and hopefully find user contributed answers. This is not a new concept as Google Answers and

  2. Steven S. -- Product Design Says:

    Sorry your post got cut off, Frank.

    See the rest of Frank Gruber’s review at http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2006/04/grupthink_for_y.html

    Thanks for the kind remarks!

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