CrowdSpirit gadget development project goes into beta

It's been quite a while coming, but the ambitious CrowdSpirit project has finally moved from the hype-building stage to the beta testing stage. For those that missed it the first time around, the project aims to apply crowdsourcing to the development of gadgets and consumer electronics, with individuals able to submit ideas for products that then get voted on by the community at large. If a product makes it all the way through the process, the contributors to it will then earn "a share" of the product revenue. Judging from the current pace of things, however, that possibility seems to still be quite a ways off.

[Via MAKE:Blog]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 31st 2007 1:32PM]

Reminds me of Sociocracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

But if it truly followed those principles I would have expected it to have gotten off the ground sooner.

[Foo Bar Posted Aug 31st 2007 1:45PM]

Hello! You missed the boat! Web 2.0 is so totally yesterday.

[madmaxmedia Posted Aug 31st 2007 2:40PM]

Management by committee, with a Web 2.0 spin!! Wonderful!!!

This is like a focus group gone horribly amok. ;) It will be interesting to see what happens.

[madmaxmedia Posted Aug 31st 2007 2:41PM]

Management by committee, with a Web 2.0 spin!! Wonderful!!!

This is like a focus group gone horribly amok. ;) It will be interesting to see what happens.

[preaves Posted Sep 1st 2007 12:40AM]

That is the greatest Venn diagram ever.