hi steve & community<br><br>once upon a time a long, long time ago tim kersten set up a site to track "the wisdom of crowds" [1] with regard to the question "how many freerunners will FIC sell in the first two months"<br>
<br>the answer can be seen here (click the stats tab) <a href="http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/" target="_blank">http://openmoko.hobby-site.com/</a> and is remarkably consistent at a median value of 4000 after over 1000 people voted. In fact this number has stayed very close to 4000 since the low hundreds of votes.<br>
<br>so are you going to ask the webshop/pulster/trisoft/whoever to keep track of the real number for you? .....after all, if it turns out to be accurate you can use this method for planning your next product!<br><br>and are you going to tell us how accurate it was :-) ?<br>
<br>actually the rules for the "wisdom of a crowd" to be accurate demand that each guess is independent..... and here we have a little pollution in that it is possible for you to see others votes before you vote yourself (although many will not have bothered)<br>
<br>anyway.... it gave us something to do while you folks were busy making phones....<br><br>i reckon it saved at least 12 useless messages to list by frustrated geeks...... (and oops created only 9 more....)<br><br>actually next time we could always use it to guess the release date for son of freerunner ....<br>
<br>jw<br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds</a><br>