This is seriously going to be the future of determining what is valuable on the web. The virtual coin system was the brilliant idea of Travis Russel and was brought to reality by a great team. I had, and still have, the great privilege of being the sole designer and programmer for the project. WebbChange strives to be the world leader in providing individually pertinent information by empowering people to define what is valuable and useful on the web. This is all done with the aforementioned virtual coins system. Each user gets 10,000 coins to distribute to whatever websites, images, files, videos or articles they think are valuable. If they use all 10,000 coins, they have to re-evaluate and re-adjust their coins to continue determining what they find valuable. This creates a system where each user has the exact same amount of value, as in, no user gets to “vote” more than any other user.

Design and function of the “Boards”
The design is information driven. I wanted to keep the design simple and focused and out of the way of the information the user is trying to find. With so much information, the most logical solution was to create individual boards that displayed specific search driven results. These boards are extremely versatile and can be customized to call and display any information from the database. For example one board could simply be “Top Websites” where another board could be “Top Websites by Females”. Each board is also self contained and paginates the results. These boards carry throughout the website. Whether the user is on the homepage or on a website’s details page or on the search page, the boards stay consistent.

The WebbChange SmartSearch
The search results that can be populated (user info stays confidential, of course) from the information WebbChange stores is amazing. If you are looking for what users in Australia who are 20 to 30, who don’t smoke and who enjoy “Horses” value, WebbChange will show you. We have coined the term “Social Search Engine” because it populates its results based on each user’s interests, networks, location, etc. and then organizes them by top coin amounts. Even Google and Yahoo don’t do this ;)

The future of WebbChange
We have sooo many features in development and planned for the future from personalization of a user’s homepage, top website competitions, to bringing WebbChange out of the “web”. Make sure to keep checking on WebbChange.com and on my personal site for upcoming changes.

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