Ideas

I think this is a great idea! It'll be awesome to have something like this in the advertising market.

You may want to add some kind of benefit system for the participants, something as the earnings offered here at Cambrian.

Checkout www.holotof.com It is not the same, but works in the same direction.

I think many people in academics could use this as they collaborate with other professors on their research.

Good idea. Some sites for inspiration:

http://www.imaginati...cubed.com/LaunchPage
http://www.gliffy.com

Also, check out irc://irc.freenode.net#cambrianhouse - we brainstorm on there a lot.

If you want help with ideas you have to check out the IRC like Aidan mentioned. So far it's been very productive over there.

A guy I know runs business executive forums - He helps businesses improve by running forums into which he injects creative/experienced people. This could be a commercial application of your idea. Businesses pay for a 2-hour brainstorming session with a industry professional.

OK, I will check out the IRC, but first I will google it to figure out what software I need to load the URL given, then I will check it out.

I like this idea, and I would like to see something like this integrated into cambrianhouse.

I think that a public site would be too volatile, there are always pranksters and advertisers trying to ruin an open communication medium.

I see two options:
1) An application we sell that can be integrated with AIM, Yahoo, and MSN.
2) Require users to register and add friends, create groups.

value-added might come from having some kind of facilitator - which could be a machine

Brainstorming as a process has a structure which is bigger than idea generation; the product proposed here might walk participants through the process. I bet you could automate it while leaving it participant-controlled.

A machine as facilitator might work better than a human in some ways.

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Interesting. Hmmm, hasn't this been done, in some form?

Could be an interesting addition to the Edward de Bono six Hats "methodology"

I'm a little concerned on how this makes money. I don't see something that really differentiates it enough to pay for it.

It seems like most people would continue using pen and paper, whiteboards, forums or some other existing free method for brainstorming instead of paying for this type of service.

Any thoughts on what makes this idea so much better it's worth shelling out cash to get it?

Hi all, some interesting battles taking place in this round (round 2 of the Golden Hammer tournament). This one I am in shapes up to me as simple vs complex. I think the other idea, Virtual Business Units is cool and that it comes across as a bigger idea. This can be good or bad. I am surprised as some of you that some sort of brainstorming tool does not already exist, or at least I can not find it.

I envision it as first being used for CH usage. Then after it is tweaked a bit and has proven effectiveness it could be sold to businesses interested in new ideas or improving their current ones. There is a lot of books you can buy about how to increase your creativity and with specific methods of brainstorming. It should be fairly simple for a few people to summarize these proven methods and implement them in an online brainstorming zone.

I really like this idea. Check out my Brainstormer "idea" for more ideas for this. I started it as an idea to add to CH, then found your idea here. You might be able to use it as the interface? You may also think about adding a lexical analyzer that can programmatically strip appart a summary for a project or idea into nouns with associated verbs/adverbs/adjectives/etc. I used this idea in another idea I just recently submitted: Codesourcing. You may even find some more ideas in there to combine with yours.

I've done a lot of research into this before and nearly every thing I read broke brainstorming down into three categories: 1) generalization, 2) understanding, 3) communication/relationships.

I would suggest to look into how the brain models memory for creating an interface to reflect this process. It's very easy to get on tangents and stray far from your ultimate goal. So maybe have a tool that would "randomly" bring up previous ideas that relate to the current one.

Just some thoughts...enjoy.