Kluster: Crowdsourcing Design
February 20, 2008
A site just went live today, that aims to do for product design what Wikipedia did for encyclopedia authoring. Kluster is a platform for crowdsourcing, which means harnessing the collective creativity of an online community to co-design something. I’d say it’s the piece of the participatory Web that has the greatest (untapped) potential to transform our material lives.
It goes without saying that I’m excited to see how Kluster fares in this space. Others have come before it — Innocentive, Cambrian House, CrowdSpirit, IdeaBlog — but none of these have impressed me as much. Kluster reads like a potent combination of community technologies for online collaboration — prediction markets, community currency, user-generated content, social filtering — and applies it to an area very close to my heart: design. It’s great to see someone create what looks like a solid platform that targets and incentivizes a co-creative community.
However, I have my doubts.
Posted by Daniel in : Collective Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Research, Social Software, Sustainability1 comment so far
Hydrogen Dream
February 18, 2008
Hydrogen Dream
by Daniel Steinbock
My dreams are made of stars
and stars are made of hydrogen.
And though I dream out loud,
I hardly know where to begin,
when dreams are made of hydrogen.
And you carried away the stone.
From my broken back, you lift the heavy load.
And you carried away the stone…
These arms were made to hold you,
your body, the Universe.
And only eyes can show you
what is greater than these many words:
your body is the Universe.
And you danced away the storm.
My broken wings were all at once restored.
And you danced away the storm…
Love was made to disarm.
Love will make you whole again.
And when I cried out loud,
twas Love that led me home again,
where dreams are made of hydrogen.
And you sang up the Sun.
My broken voice could never reach that note.
And we sang up the Sun…
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Put things in perspective
February 10, 2008
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