November 2006
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The creativity of swarms (= crowdsourcing)
I discovered this Wired article about Crowdsourcing in Kai Fischbach’s new blog Open Business Models. It describes how professional photographers selling their pictures on the Web for $150 per shot are put out of business by Web sites like iStockphoto . Millions of amateur photographers are putting up their photos there for $1 per picture. The same has become true for videos, where companies...
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What makes a cool city?
Today’s New York Times has an article on the growing attractiveness of Atlanta, Portland, Oregon, Charlotte, Denver, and Austin for the young and restless generation. With an overall aging population, the group of the 25 to 35 year olds becomes a shrinking minority, courted by cities because studies show that once people are over 35, they are much less likely to move and relocate again. According...
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If US presidential elections were today, Barack...
… at least on the Web, and Al Gore would be Vice President. I ran a coolhunting query yesterday Nov 19, 2006 on the Web, checking out the standings of the presidential contenders. The rankings are as follows (see the picture): 1. Barack Obama 2. Al Gore 3. Newt Gingrich 4. John Edwards 5. Rudy Giuliani 6. Mitt Romney 7. John Kerry 8. Hillary Clinton Coolhunting on the Web can give a skewed...
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MIT i-Teams, a blueprint for COINs
Yesterday I was listening to the project presentations of the MIT I-Teams course, an entrepreneurship class taught by Ken Zolot and sponsored by the Deshpande center. In this class students are exploring the commercial viability and developing go-to-market strategies of innovations made by MIT researchers. In other words they are working together as COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks)....
