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Have you ever landed on a web site that was like a museum - look but don't touch? You know, the static ones with old information. Or one where you couldn't find the information you wanted? The kind where the customers needs were an after thought. I dread those. You see them all over the web. From small business sites to medium ones and even large company sites. They all suck.

"The Outsourced Brain" by David Brooks, NY Times

The NYTimes has an interesting article, Hollywood Clicks on the Work of Web Auteurs.

"The Rise of Crowdsourcing" -

By Jeff Howe, Wired

I hope you guys find this interesting.

For the last several months I've been busy implementing social web applications in organizations. The tools we use are based almost exclusively on open source software. Funny, right now on cnbc, the "Hot Topic" is about web 2.0 and social networks. Everyone it seems is defining web 2.0 and social networks.

One of our mantra's is about...

Inside organizations, we have the longtail of ideas and information that needs to be connected to people, places, and things.

Free business development ideas on innovation and open collaboration. We strongly believe greats ideas are everywhere - even outside the company walls. Both, innovation and open collaboration, are great processes that demand a framework, say, a social network system or a community application approach.

Committee for Economic Development

"CED Releases Report on Openness in the Digital Economy"

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