New video web-site published by Inverudio introduces a 2x2-dimensional rating system for selecting v Released by: Lazar Kovacevic Web Site: http://best-google-videos.com/video.php Unlike common web-site metrics (number of views, ratings, comments) this measures effects of videos. Email: webmaster@inverudio.com Keywords: video,videos,google,youtube,best,googlevideo,google video Update Date: 6/18/2007 9:14:31 PM Hits: 232 Descrption:  New rating system introduced on the web-site in question is not really new. It is used in psychodrama groups for years, but its application on the internet web-site is new. Rating scale is called 'diamond of opposites', and it is a 2 dimensional scale where people can, unlike with standard linear scales, express there ambivalent feelings on issues. In addition, unlike with other web-sites where people rate items directly, this new web-site lets people rate the topic of the video before and after seeing the video. In this way, if the rating has changed, corresponding effect of viewing a video is detected. Videos are ranked according to the effect they have on viewers, and not on the number of views, or simple ratings. This new system enables new users to spend least time searching for quality videos, and most time viewing them. In the information age when there are millions of sites, blogs, stories, videos, etc, finding a way to provide users with the most quality content is a very important task. Above mentioned method is more successful than common methods described below that in general fail at this goal. Common web-site metrics that serves for ranking of sites, stories, threads, photos, videos, or other items of interest, relies on statistics made of information revolving around few basic types of data: number of views, number of ratings, average rating, number of comments, and similar. Although useful, these numbers often cannot provide information that may be of a value for new users, namely, how much did the item in question effect other users. Did it teach them something new, did they change their views and opinions after reading a story or seeing a movie. For example, number of views is based on the number of times different users have clicked on some item, for example video. However, that number does not show how much time did those users spent actually watching the video. Often a video can have a catchy name and attract many viewers to click on it, while after doing so, most of them can be disappointed and navigate away from the same. Number of comments may be useful in indicating that a topic is controversial. Or it may just mean that there are many spam comments. However, new user cannot know until he/she actually starts reading them, and therefore this quantification didn't serve well it's purpose - describing with a single number the quality of the item. Rating does tell how much people liked something, but it does not tell if they learned new things. Top rated video can have high rating because a political massage was presented that most viewers agreed with. Or it may have such rating because most viewers found it enlightening. Later case would score better on the rating system that is about to be presented below. Contact infomation: 3122866503