Nickname: heuristo

Review: This article is 2 1/2 years old. it didn't happen... (crowdsourcing). Cambrian House appears to have died, was a waste of time anyways.

Date reviewed: Feb 3, 2009 2:08 PM

Nickname: Dilip

Review: Hi All: Thought you might be interested in a Crowdsourcing event at Stanford on May 20th, 2008 sponsored by VLAB. Jeff Howe from Wired who coined the term crowdsourcing will be moderating a panel with VCs and crowdsourcing companies like Cambrian House. http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=184

Date reviewed: May 13, 2008 4:31 AM

Nickname: Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD

Review: I guess these remarks hold true for the West society where everything is ready and handy. We in the African continent have to create few things like the Flinstones to earn our living and live. This is not new to us. Our power lines are very bad. We go in small manner to solar for at least TV, house lights etc. Very small scale. It is not that we are creative but we are lazy. Our resources are plentiful, we can move to the mountains, but in corrupted societies, outsource and give the work to someone else with the little bribery. If you call this outsourcing, these are bankruptcy to us, but live. We have to.

Date reviewed: Mar 14, 2007 2:38 PM

Nickname: gaudi

Review: CuuSoo, a Japanese site has been doing user-directed design for sometime http://www.cuusoo.com/ Design-To-Order http://www.elephant-design.com/ In Japanese.

Date reviewed: Sep 12, 2006 4:10 AM

Nickname: Yoyo

Review: Look at this initiative --> http://cecrowdsourcing.blogspot.com/ . You will see the first crowdsourcing initiative for designing and selling electronic products. If you have a doubt about how the money will be shared especially for the idea initiator, look at the business case "ipod". If you still think that you can do it by yourself, please do it but it's not as simple as it seems ;-)

Date reviewed: Aug 31, 2006 8:09 AM

Nickname: Mister

Review: Look at that : http://www.look-zippy.com and : http://mass-customization.blogs.com/mass_customization_open_i/2006/07/collective_cust.html

Date reviewed: Jul 25, 2006 1:36 PM

Nickname: Bugsy

Review: "who922", every person on earth has his own ideas that be is convinced are brilliant, and that will make him a billionnaire instantly if produced. At the end, nothing happens, because the ideas are not only complete failures, but because the people didn't take their ideas further than a line in a notebook, with the inscription 'best idea in the world'. Designing involves countless factors that no one can know about unless having a 100'000$ design education. So 2000$ should make the crowd very happy.

Date reviewed: Jul 22, 2006 7:19 PM

Nickname: Nicolas.L.

Review: Threadless and Muji are two companies of relatively simple products. The way they approach crowdsourcing is excellent, but nothing new. What threadless does, is basically a demand research. What Muji does is making a cost-efficient ideation, ideas come in for free. And it's all given a sexy name, 'crowdsourcing'.

Date reviewed: Jul 22, 2006 7:14 PM

Nickname: MOInventor

Review: I was the recipient of one of these efforts back in the mid-80's. A computer supplies company had a contest and I won 2nd place—good for $2,000. The license agreement gave them exclusive rights for 20 years. They never developed the invention—effectively putting the product on ice for 20 years. Now that the agreement is up the product is useless—obsolete. I was young. I learned much from the experience. If you really want your invention to succeed, you have to develop it yourself like Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu who holds 2,300+ patents including the original one for the floppy disk (1950).

Date reviewed: Jul 17, 2006 6:42 AM

Nickname: who922

Review: How stupid! I have a list of ideas I would like to get produced. I'm sure not going to give them away or try to win $2,000. By the way, that is stupid for me, brilliant for them!

Date reviewed: Jul 14, 2006 3:12 PM