About

Capable Networks LLC was founded in 2004 by Ron Repking and Steven Jones.  The company was formed to address the fundamental problem that good information is becoming harder and harder to come by online as the web gets larger and larger, and the world gets smaller and smaller.  We state our goal / vision pretty concisely in the form of a catchy byline:  “More value.  Less noise.  Every day.“

The company is all about giving people the tools necessary to find what they’re looking for online in the best possible way.  We’ve pressed several different kinds of weapons into service as we work to fulfill this vision.  The centerpiece in our arsenal is our online community platform, which we’ve used now to create several kinds of communities – such as TechLore, the Sling Community and DVRplayground – with more on the way.  At the heart of our platform is our intelligent scoring engine we call the “Content Valuation Engine”, or CVE.  Intelligent scoring is our patent-pending mechanism that does the actual work, behind the scenes of our platform, to cause the good stuff to rise to the top.  This is how we achieve our “more value, less noise, every day” vision.

My name is Jeff Block.  I graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Computer Science from their engineering college in the mid-90’s, worked as a consultant for several years, then did corporate training, and now work for Capable Networks.  At CN, my title is Vice President of Community Development.  I’m also the co-inventor, along with the CTO of the organization, Steven Jones, of the CVE.

My role – in creating this blog – is to discuss this vision of intelligent scoring, and how it’s becoming a reality.  If you stay tuned, you’ll discover that I plan to be all over the map on this and related topics.  I look forward to sharing how we came about this idea, what has influenced it, where we’re going, where we think the web is going, who else is doing what, etc.  As you read and have questions, post them.  I’m excited about the opportunity to dialogue about this significant invention and what it has to offer online communities and the web in general.