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IdeaWarz - Shipping by Crowdsourcing Travellers
Nostromo sees world travelers whizzing back and forth across less-than-completely-porous borders, and wants to put their extra carrying capacity to use! His winning idea, Shipping by Crowdsourcing Travellers is all about coordinating such a service.
Nostromo currently doesn’t have the resources to push this idea forward as a project, so if you interested in coordinating development, give him a shout!
DTINGG says:
I like this idea as part of a community site, but not for a standalone site.
Summertime says:
What UShip doesn’t have: I don’t believe they will go out and shop for the items you seek. That function seems a little more like “importing” to me.
Micco says:
I think it’s a great basis for a social network. You’d probably want some kind of bid-ask system.
Blue and Gord’s Favorite Ideas
From One, Comes Many by Motiggidy
Lets Ch members get their feet wet in managing a web business in an easy way. I think it also fosters a more active community.
An extremely easy mechanism by which simple sites could be launched, which would eliminate the need for any development skills when rolling out a dynamic website.
Ping Manager by Edavidove
A program which tells me, within a defined time period, the people that have “contacted me”, the number of times a “contact” was made, the number of times I have responded, and the average amount of time elapsed before I have responded.
The discussion on this idea quickly centered around the technical aspect of monitoring various forms of communication. Blue has some Blackberry specific thoughts on this in this week’s video blog below.
Competition! Tapscott! Gluzman!
TED Conference this year includes the launch of Kluster, a site which uses a vocabulary of Amps, Watts and Sparks to articulate various aspects of project crowdsourcing.
On one hand, finding the ideal mechanisms by which Wisdom of Crowds and Participation of Crowds can be leveraged is something more significant than any one business venture. By redefining the boundaries between “work” and “play”, and allowing everyone to explore their full creative potential, crowdsourcing (as enabled by Web 2.0 technologies) makes all of our lives richer. (Except for Andrew Keen.)
So it was with great trepidation we decided to sabotage the entire TED conference in an attempt to derail Kluster.
Unfortunately, we hadn’t counted on Robin Williams being present. Is there ANYTHING that man can’t do? (Aside from stop growing hair?)
In this week’s video, we talk about Kluster and alternate approaches to crowdsourcing ideas! Gluzman speaks at length about Jeff Howe on Crowdfunding, Microsoft’s bad month and his own conspiracy theories involving banks! We take a Skype call from Nostromo! And, as usual, Blue is taken out of context via the magic of video editing!
Until next week: Share your ideas. Give us your precious, precious feedback… Take a look through Cambrian House Bazaar and Forums for projects to assist in…
And… May the Best Idea… WIN!
February 29th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Everyone loves burnt paper and stick notes… except me I suppose
Gordon, I like the idea of you trying to push things forward in the community. It would be nice to see things move beyond the idea phase. I think people just aren’t quite sure what to do next.
Might also be nice to read or watch a “beyond idea warz” update and get people excited about taking their ideas forward.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
What do you mean by “beyond idea warz update”? I imagine it could mean a discussion of broader CH operations, or it could mean a more in depth discussion of options available to the community member after they’ve won the weekly competition.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Not so much of a focus on CH operations, but an update on how people are progressing with their ideas. So if you have won a weekly tournament and you have progress, perhaps there is a monthly video special that gives the update to the general community. So it would be something like a glimpse into what is going on at the film riot site or how any of the other weekly winners have progressed.
Plus this will serve to remind people of what is already in progress. A lot of people talk about having trouble focusing… well, if they are reminded regularly it is a way to combat lack of focus.