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Open Innovation, Collective Intelligence & Web Science

Collab 

“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 PonokoZazzle ++ 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.