Share your knowledge and trivia, express your intellectual opinions and discuss your interests with fellow intellects. Add them as peers and follow their intellectual activity.
Create, share, review and rate Intell5, a new kind of information portlet.
What is this?
What? Neither a lengthy article nor a micrblog with too little information, just five interesting information on a particular topic.
Also, unlike a Wiki, this is not just facts based, so you can write your intellectual opinions. These can be edited only by the creator, so your opinion stays as yours!
Why? You can use this to provide a snapshot of a topic, your opinion on an interest related news, a research article or even an blog entry. Just short and sweet to generate interest to view your original work.
Participate in oxford style intellectual debates and contrasting opinions, not with anyone and everyone, but with the peers whom you choose to debate with.
Why?
While debating is fun and is full of interesting information, the common problems with discussion forums is that there are countless threads, flame wars and losing track of original topic.
Here you choose whom to discuss with (maximum of three participants) and there is a proposed structure (oxford style: opening, rebuttal and closing statements) to the whole debate. While only the participants can edit, it is open to others to read for the joy of knowledge sharing.
Search for your favourite intellectual books, write, read and share your reviews about them.
Share external knowledge sources, and embed media content from popular sites such as YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Google and SlideShare.
What can we share?
External Links: Share intellectual sources with other members of the community to spread the joy of knowledge! You can submit links to external sources such as articles from scientific instituitions, universities and museums, expert blogs and research articles with your own title, description and image thumbnail.
Media Content: You can also embed media content such as videos, photos and presentations from famous web platforms such as Youtube, Picasa, Flickr, SlideShare and Google.