“Most of what i know is in the heads of my friends.”
Last night I saw a discussion on MIT about collective intelligence. They dicuss issues such as privacy, security, mass collaboration and sociology. Very interesting stuff, its two hours long but an inspirational watch!
I also listened to a Tim Berners Lee talk given at the CCI at MIT about Web Science, the semantic web & collective intelligence. Tim provides some unique perspectives on the link between the logical and social aspects of websites, collective decision making processes and web standards.
Also take a look at Ponoko, Zazzle ++ as a recent example of an open innovation space. I think business models such as this will be the future of manufacturing as a whole. It is much more sensible that ideas come from the public and are translated into products manufactured by those which can leverage economies of scale, speed and procurement compentencies which they possess. A technology review post about Ponoko can be found here.
This is quite interesting. I’m working in the tech world or maybe more media now….with ambitions of working or founding a startup preferably internet based. Still waiting for the proverbial light bulb moment though. I read Starbbucks have launched a drive on their website using customer feedback to improve the current fortunes of the group. This is quite an interesting way of interacting with your customer.