...in the past year, Cambrian has become a leader in software crowdsourcing, bravely inviting one and all to contribute their ideas and brainpower to developing mass-market Web applications.PROFIT magazine, Mar 2007
Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community using a wisdom of crowds based approach to discover new business and technology ideas. These pages are being kept online as a technology demo to showcase Chaordix™.
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This idea has launched, it was launched at the beginning of 2006. But I wanted to display it as one of my ideas which will show you the sort of development that I am taking personally, with ideas.
The idea is basically the concept of bringing people together online in order to develop something that has an offline reality to it. People can sign up online to become a tribe member which then gives them access to an online community whereby they make decisions as to how we develop a 200 acre eco-island in Fiji. Tribe members get to decide what they want to build on the island, what activities they want to see happen on the island and how they want to partnership with the local community. These 'virtual' tribe members then get to visit the island for either 1, 2, 3 weeks and many have stayed on for longer.
Tribewanted can be seen on www.tribewanted.com and we have a TV deal as a documentary and a book deal.
If I knew of CH we could have ironed out some issues before launch!
I thought of this idea when I was...
I was following some exciting projects like One Red Paper Clip and Milliondollarhomepage. MySpace was also in the news with regards to it's popularity, as was the issue of Climate Change. I wondered whether people could be brought together online in order to develop something that had an offline reality to it. The reality was the 200 acre eco-island which had nothing on it.
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By the way I am not looking for this to be voted on to go into the next round of voting. I just wanted users to get to know a bit more about me and what I do!
Great idea Mark!
Welcome to the cambrian house
Hi Mark,
I saw the news splash you made when this launched, nice idea. Wondered what had happened, good to hear its stil live and see you on CH.
Allan
Yeah, I remember this idea as well, great to have you onboard!
Hey thanks guys, thanks for your encouragement. I am really enjoying getting involved in the CH community!
I like your idea.
How does the system balance out? What if everyone opens an eco starbucks?
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I dont understand your question with regard to how doe the system balance out... please expand further?
hmmm....how do this makes money again?
People sign up online and they pay to visit the island, the amount depending on their length of stay.
mark good one
Thanks fossil!
this sounds like a very fun idea. hats off to you.
....musing on how people spend time on a bare island .. what do they eat?
Thanks dexx.... the local fijians provide the food but the tribe members help them, so, for example, they catch fish, go spear fishing, buy food in the market on the main land that kinda thing. The fresh fish is beautiful...
Looked at your website, great concept. Good luck with it!
Jill thanks for that!
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