CoolTown Studios linked me to this great ebook by one of my crowdsourcing idols: Charles Leadbeater. If you are interested in Crowdsourcing in the public domain you should really be aware of his works (a must-read is the pro-am revolution) and remixing the city is no exception.
In about 30 short pages a vision is presented […]

Last week I got links from several people to a techcrunch post about a promising startup called Kluster.com. I subscribed to the mailing list and got invited just an hour ago.
Amps, Watts and Sparks are what it’s all about at Kluster.com.
From their press release:

• phases – phases break […]

2006 was the year that Time magazine published “you” on their cover as Time’s person of the year. Looking back 2006 was the year Web2.0 got some real traction. Another significant publication in this respect was “Naked Conversations”. In this book Robert Scoble and Shel Israel taught the world ‘how blogs are changing the way […]

Humans and computers are both problem solving machines and though current computers can perform incredible feats, for various tasks computers are just not smart enough. Tasks that require pattern recognition in high dimensional data are notoriously hard and surprisingly wide spread. Since humans are pretty much ‘designed’ to do these task they don’t stand out […]

Once in a while tv can actually be interesting! Luckily I can find the content online as well
This time I bounced on an interview with the father of Co-Creation: CK Prahalad. Promoting his new book “The New Age of Innovation, the Thinkers50 #1 shared a couple of his ideas:

Untitled from MGvandenBroek on Vimeo.
Prahalad was […]

I’m talking about the potential of crowds all day, but when taking the concept to China, ‘potential’ is a bit of an understatement. I picked up this TechCrunch interview with a Shanghaian business man called Calvin Chin.
Since the last time we’ve discussed Crowdfunding Zopa and Prosper have proven to be viable. A Dutch initiative called […]

Trendwatching.com came with yet another great trend report: “Even though you’ve heard about the New Economy, the Experience Economy, the Surprise Economy, the Attention Economy, the Leisure Economy and so on, we can’t help but throw yet another Economy your way: the EXPECTATION ECONOMY“
The post goes on about the enormous expectations consumers have of companies […]

While we were in the process of updating our blogroll, a suspicious number of blogs were down. Many of the biggies like Crowdsourcing, Groundswell and others were not responding.
Reason: Typepad is gone for a moment, while WordPress with it’s open architecture (Which can be hosted anywhere) is still going strong.
Update 1: The blogosphere picked this […]

One of the presentations at LIFT08 that hit me the most was this presentation by Younghee Jung, Senior Design Manager at Nokia. She presented Nokia Open Studio, a great project in which local communities in three parts of the world participated in a design competition. Design competitions were organised in a Favela in Rio de […]

My guess is that I have two chances: Either I am talking to a web crawler or it is dinner time.
Isn’t it amazing how everything in computer science has already been invented by guys back in the first half of the last century? As is the captcha (If you don’t know what that is […]