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I’d like to point you to Michel Bauwens’ post about his critique on the Cathedral Bazaar metaphor. Although Bouwens does not give an alternative metaphor, I like his categorization of peer production business models which is based on who facilitates peer production. This can be Social networking companies, communities themselves or (commercial) organizations respectively.
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“Perform the phone call someone else wished they could have” is the latest of the assignments given to you by the makers of the site www.learningtoloveyoumore.com. “It is a web site comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Participants accept an assignment, […]

We already knew that the battle for the White House was going to be a tough one, and we knew that it would be fought online for a considerable part (remeber this one?). But after reading this post we know that Crowdsourcing will also be used as a means of throwing mud to political […]

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple Mouse, the Palm Handheld and lots more interesting products, has left some interesting thoughts about how to create ‘hot crowds’. I just read ‘The Art of Innovation’ a book by Ideo’s Tom Kelley (2001). The book is an interesting read […]

It has been a while since the last post, but the thing is: I am addicted. My fellow CSD authors asked me to take a look at decision markets. And now i find myself hooked on the public markets of Inkling.
I’ll have to make this short, because I have my eyes on some under […]

Bloggers like feedback, unfortunately no more then one percent of blog readers actively participate and actually leave that feedback. Not only does this lead to sparse data, it is also very probable that commenters are actually a specific subset of readers.
While thumbs up/down approaches only reveal so much, PostReach has developed a tool that allows […]

The other day was sitting on the couch, when my friend A. walked in. A. is in business and you wouldn’t believe some of the stuff he ships: 40 feet containers of Orange Juice, Bulldozers, etc. Today he came up to me and asked me wether I could help him finding a 3 tonne industrial […]